Windows 8 partition on a MacBook Pro
I've managed to install a Windows 8 partition on my MacBook Pro. When I retired I wanted to dish Windows completely, however there are still a couple of applications that I do need Windows for. When running in Windows mode on my MacBook I can't connect (or even find) any WiFi networks. Also, although it is of no consequence the time is out by one hour (altering the daylight saving settings makes it out by two hours). Before I try unistalling and reinstalling Windows could anyone advise whether i would be better just giving up and getting a cheap PC to run my Windows rubbish on?
Thanks,
John
Have you installed the Windows support software in Windows? You need it to make the MacBook run correctly.
As you are using Windows 8, start in OS X by holding the X key while your Mac is starting, and download the Windows support software > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638 Then, follow the steps on the website to burn it to a USB drive.
After doing this, start in Windows, connect the USB drive and install the drivers
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Its all in the title. I am trying to use bootcamp to download windows 7 on my macbook pro mountain lion, but I keep getting this error. I tried going to Disk Utility, and my active volume already is formatted under Mac OS Extended (Journaled), so I don't know how to fix it. I already backed up the volume on an external harddrive. Also, everything under the volume I wanted to edit is greyed out, and when I try to restore the backup that I created via time machine, it pops up with another error that says "Could not unmount volume "/" (Resource Busy).
Please be gentle, I'm used to using windows and don't know like anything about computers. If someone could give me a detailed explanation for these errors and a solution of how I could correctly download windows on my mac I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!Try a restart.
If that doesn't fix the problem, shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application unistaller. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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How do I install windows from USB on Macbook pro 3,1
How do I install windows from USB on Macbook pro 3,1 ?
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- My general issue is that Boot camp Refuse to see the USB drive - (Many "how to"´s though show how they install windows perfectly through the USB port, but they use airbooks!, and somehow the Macbook will not ?)
I fix that issue with >> rEFIt <<, that suddenly makes it possible for the Mac to see the USB drive, and partitions.
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Point: So the original system could see the Snow Leopard installation USB disk, but boot camp cannot find the USB drive ?????????
After rEFIt I booted and then I got this error:
Starting bootmgr.efi
Error: Unsupported while loading bootmgr.efi
I read it could be a problem with the Windows software, so I purchased an extern DVD drive, Used Disk Utility to make an image (.DMG), then used another program to convert the .dmg to .ISO.
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Point: Nothing is wrong with the windows software, and windows runs fine.
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Then I tried for "fun"! to just install windows form the extern USB drive, and with rEFIt it will see the drive and start to do something, but then when it starts to boot, the screen just turns into black and nothing happens, and you can see the drive does NOTHING. (I think it is because I only have 1 USB drive and the Extern DVD drive does not get enough power, but again the mac refuse to see the USB drive unless it is a Snow Leopard installation USB-drive!
Well trying to install Windows Ultimate 64 Bit, which worked great in vmware, because that program installed from the .ISO file that I had on the desktop, but trying with Boot Camp did not get anywhere, what kind of **** program is this boot camp anyway!?, but then I try the new USB disk with windows made from windows, thorugh rEFIt, it sees the disk and then starts and then I get this ERROR:
rEFIt - Booting Legacy OS
Starting legacy loader
Using load option ´USB´
Error: Not found returned from legacy loader
Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath
(x 9 times)
Error: Load Error while (re)opening our installation volume
The firmware refused to boot from the selected volume. Note that external hard drives are not well-supported by Apple´s firmware for legacy OS booting
(Hey Apple please send out a updated firmware that fix this issue?!)
So how do I do it ? - or is the only option to fix the partition running the system from the extern disk. Format the whole drive in 2 from the "bottom" and install windows and then afterwards install Mac on the other partition ? Or just run windows on the mac and forget about mac software ? What a stupid solution...There are strings in the pliist file to add other Macs so that you can use some USB-DVD drives.
This is 5 page thread, so a little more 'meat' to it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3410900?start=60&tstart=0
And on PC booting Windows from a USB DVD to do the install is usually a piece of cake, sometimes you just need to specify that USB in the BIOS boot order and sometimes select via F12 (or another Fkey) and that is it.
What you have here seems to be everything and everyone is excluded unless there is a mac-model device ID string that specifies yes. An unnecessary hurdle. -
How to install windows 7 on Old Macbook Pro 15'inch 2.3 Core 2 Duo
How to install windows 7 on Old Macbook Pro 15'inch 2.3 Core 2 Duo:
I want to known how to install windows 7 on Old Macbook 15'inch 2.3 Core 2 Duo by using usb
I try many time, but after restart bootcamp partition, apple show blinking folder error
I think this firmware not support to install windows by usb
NOTE:
I Cannot install Apple New OSX Mountain Lion, Mavericks etc in this MAC
If I cannot install windows 7 on this MAC, so tell me what I will do with this MAC ?I agree with the optical drive, mine acted strange, and i thought people were crazy and my drive was shot, but a simple cleaning disc worked miracles.
But- are you trying to reboot with both the USB install and the DVD install both plugged in? that would definitely cause confusion.
Do this, reboot with NOTHING plugged in. Once you hear the Mac chime, immediately press and hold option.
You should only see the Mac HD, and Recovery Partition.
THEN plug in your external DVD, and wait a min or two, you should see a disc icon appear next to the recovery partition that says something like windows. If that doesnt appear after a min or two, unplug it and put the USB stick and do the same thing. I had to do it this way on my mid 09 MBP.
Let me know if this works to start the install. If not we may have to start over with Bootcamp Assistant -
I am trying to install windows 7 on my macbook pro 13", when i run bootcamp it tells me that there is not a windows support software available for my computer. Where can i get the windows support software for my macbook?
Apple only supports Windows on certain hardware.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
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It doesn't mean Windows can't run on your Mac, a third party solution called rEFIt will also bridge the gap and allow booting of more that just Windows, Linux as well for a triple booting computer.
Your hardware has to meet the other requirements the second and third operating system needs as as being able to install drivers that will work for your hardware, especially the fans or they will run loud and fast by default.
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
This above is a advanced procedure which requires knowledge how computers and various operating systems, drive formats and so forth work.
I even admit I don't know everything myself, but I experiment on a separate piece of Mac hardware (out of warranty/AppleCare) designed for this purpose so in case something screws up I'm not taking down my only machine and can use the other to get online and find solutions.
There is a very high potential for losing your data if your using advanced/non-Apple methods to install Windows on your only Mac where Apple doesn't support it. Also one shouldn't be doing this on Mac hardware that is under AppleCare or warranty as it might be voided. Proceed at your own risk and education. -
Trouble installing Windows 8.1 on MacBook Pro Retina mid 2014
Hi everyone
I recently bought a MacBook Pro Retina (mid 2014, 15", 2.8GHz, 1TB SSD) and wanted to install Windows 8.1 on it via bootcamp.
I have an official .ISO package of Windows 8.1 (it's x64, I checked), got it from MS Dreamspark as a student, and a valid serial number for it, of course.
Burned the image on a 16gb flash drive via bootcamp and proceeded to install. When asked by windows installer which partition to install on, selected bootcamp and clicked 'format', as it was recommended to do in various instructions on the internet (as it wouldn't install without formatting, I tried). The installation went good and finished, but immedeatly after that the installer gave me a notification "Impossible to update computer loading configuration, installation cancelled" (maybe it's not exactly like that, translated as accurately as I could, I'm installing windows in Russian).
I tried it twice, each time re-burning the installation drive. Got the same error each time.
All the software (OS X, bootcamp, etc.) is up to date, the macbook shouldn't have any problems as it was bought just a few days ago.
How can I solve this problem?yes sorry if it ruin the ending of one of the youtube clips you will be witching if you have problems as how you install windows in bootcamp
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Greetings and salutations. I have a 2.16ghz macbook pro, and was recently given a copy of Windows 7 ultimate. I tried it via bootcamp, and fell in love with it. I found myself using it more and more, so often in fact that I just realized that I haven't been to my mac partition in weeks. I would like to make a fresh install of windows 7 on my macbook pro, and have it be a dedicated windows machine. I'm curious if this is an easy feat, shouldn't I just be able to install the OS normally like on any other computer? I have a Leopard install disk for the drivers, so in theory it should work just fine right? I appreciate your help and understanding, I also appreciate that you were nice enough to not ask me why OS X isn't good enough, or why I want to ditch it altogether. Thanks again!
A tiny Mac OS (Apple only) can be 30GB or less.
In this day and age, 99% of updates should be able to be applied from USB flash memory card running OS X; USB external drive; or other means.
Seeing how there was something about possible firmware updates (EFI, graphics, SuperDrive) already, and these may already have been what were mentioned as "improve Windows compatibility".... who knows. Always short on details.
Wiping OS X is easy, backing up and restoring Windows is less so (though I do use Home Premium's backup and system image backup and just burned a system repair utility DVD). Acronis though has said "No support for Apple Boot Camp" which is sad, even with Plus-Pack that adds GPT support. -
Do I need to install boot camp on Windows 7 as well as on Lion? I already installed it some years ago on Leopard when installing Windows Vista on my Macbook Pro. But now after installing Windows 7, many things in windows doesn't work (sound etc.). I made a clean installation because I needed to go from 32 bit to 64 bit.
Or should I just update bootcamp in Lion? (cause when I search for "boot camp" in Windows 7 there's no result)Installation Guide
Instructions for all features and settings.
Boot Camp 4.0 FAQ Get answers to commonly asked Boot Camp questions.
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Apple Boot Camp Support
Lion's Boot Camp Assistant 4.x should have downloaded Apple drivers as part of also partitioning.
You need Apple drivers. And you then need to add on your own audio driver.
You can run Assistant at any time to download and save a set of drivers. -
Using Windows 8 with my macbook pro
Hello,
I currently have a problem to install Windows 8.
Last week, I bought a Windows' 8 license.
The configuration of my macbook pro is the following :
- i7 2,3 Ghz (four cores)
- 8 Gb of RAM
- A 256 Go SSD
- A 750 Go Hybrid-disc
- OS X 10.8.2
So I removed the Superdrive but I bought an ASUS external USB disc-drive (witch works with OS X)
I inserted the Windows 64 bits disc in the USB drive and I created a 50 Go partition for Windows on the SSD (FAT) with Bootcamp.
After this process, my macbook reboot but it bloked on the PC's shell interface without message, just the cursor (Right-Top).
I tried to reboot many times and to use the 32 bits disc but it is alredy the same.
I also tried to boot using the "C" key, the CD boot, i can see the fourth blue square on the screen, and durind 2 or 3 second the charging animation but after it says that there is an error (new blue screen very very quickly), or a black screen with somes information like "Error 00000050x0...".
However, I tried the alt key. 2 solutions :
- "Windows 8", it is like the first situation (black screen with sursor)
- "EFI boot" (it appeared once), the computer boot on the CD, I can acces to menus and tell the name of the hard disc I want for the installation. But when I want to continue, a window appear with a EFI problem and he says to reboot with a different configuration (but I am not sur).
What can I do to install windows 8 on my macbook pro ?
I need it for Solidworks...
Thank you for your answers.
Nicolas
... Sorry for my bad English, I am French...nicolas_p_9 wrote:
Thank you for your answer !
Do you think I will have to wait a lot ?
All you can get is a guess, we have no more access to that information than you do, how about:
Hopefully not too long. -
Can't install Windows 7 on my Macbook pro.
Hi, I've been trying to install Windows 7 on my Macbook pro, with no luck. I have been able to create a Windows Partition via Bootcamp. And after the Windows 7 installation guide started to expand my Windows files, my Windows 7 CD suddenly stopped spinning. And after a while, the installation guide said that Windows couldn't be installed. And I had to turn off my Mac.
Post here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software -
I can't install Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro with Retina disaply
Hello,
I'm having a issue installing Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro with Retina (mid 2012), it has no CD drive so I'm able to use Disk-On-Key only.
I've create a partition of 35GB in BootCamp for installing the Windows, then the Bootcamp is restart my machine, and bring me to the windows installer
I got errors that the machine doesent recognize my hard drive.
I would add some pics, but my installer is in Hebrew lang.
please help me guys!Post here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software -
I installed Windows 7 in my Macbook pro, I can access Windows data in Mac, but I can't copy and delete it. and the same case while i am working in Windows. Could you please guide me if there is any solution, where I could copy/paste/delete my data.
OS X can natively read NTFS of Windows, but not write to it.
Windows can't read or write to HFS+ of OSX, and that's a good thing from a security standpoint.
Ideally if you share files between operating systems you should have a FAT/MSDOS formated USB key or hard drive. (exFAT external drive if any of your files are over 4GB in size) both these formats are universal for OS X or Windows.
If you install software into Windows and OS X to read each others formats, then you have to pay to update/upgrade it deal with headaches.
If you swtich between Windows and OS X a lot, don't need full hardware performance for Windows, you may consider installing virtual machine software like VMFusion or Parallels which can take a copy of your Windows in Bootcamp and place it into OS X as a file then run that copy of Windows in a window in OS X like so.
Advantage here is you run most of your light weight Windows programs like this at the same time as OS X.
Benefit is you can run just about any Windows or Linux version and OSX server editions (not client versions)
Bootcamp only allows Windows 7, that's it now.
You'll also be interested in two fre pieces of software, Carbon Copy Cloner and Winclone on macupdate.com.
CCC clones OS X partition and Winclone clones the Bootcamp partition. Valuable for you.
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How can I remove Windows XP from my MacBook Pro?
I've tried everything I can find to get rid of Windows XP on my MacBook Pro. I have OS X 10.5.8 and, unlike later versions, BootCamp Assistant 2.0 doesn't allow the option to restore the disk. And I can't find an update to BootCamp anywhere that will work. Seems I need Snow Leopard to upgrade to 3.0.
Boot Camp has an option to remove the Windows partition provided you made the partition with Boot Camp and did not later modify it or create a third-partition on the drive.
This may work:
Open Disk Utility, select your drive in the sidebar, then click on the Partition button in the DU main window. Select the Windows partition by clicking in the Windows rectangle of the partitions display. Click on the Delete [-] button to remove the partition then click on the Apply button. Wait for DU to either complete the operation or error out. If DU removes the partition then click on the partition sizing gadget (lower right hand corner) on the main partition and drag all the way to the bottom to fill the gray space left from removing the Windows partition. Click on the Apply button and wait until the operation is completed.
If you get errors at either of the two procedures then that means the drive's RDB has been damaged or altered. In this case backup the drive, boot from the backup, erase the drive, then restore the backup. -
I'm planning to use my macbook pro to record music, but some of the programs I will be using are only compatible with Windows. I was told that it was possible to install & run windows XP onto my macbook pro by using Bootcamp. I just don't know how fullproof or problematic this might be, or if it has even been successfully attempted yet. Please help!
Thx, KYou can use XP with 10.7.x by installing XP when the Mac is operating from OS X 10.6.8. It can then be up graded to 10.7.x. Below I have reproduced the "Hatter " method instructions that I have used successfully. If your MBP cannot boot from and install 10.6.8 then it is a no go situation.
Upgrade 10.6.8 to 10.7 or 10.8
Use a maintenance utility like Yasu or Cocktail to prepare existing internal Mac OSX HDD.
Clone the internal Mac partition to an external HDD with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
Restart from the cloned external HDD and select it as the startup volume via System Preferences / Startup Disk.
Install 10.7 or 10.8 on the cloned external HDD replacing 10.6.8 or 10.7.x.
Install 10.7.x or 10.8.x updates on the external HDD
Restart the updated 10.7.x or 10.8.x external HDD and test and adjust the preferences if needed.
When satisfied, clone only the 10.7.x or 10.8.x external HDD back to the existing internal Mac HDD replacing 10.6.8 or 10.7.x but don't include the recovery partition.
The Boot Camp partition will not be altered as to drive id which appeared to cause problems for a few people.
The recovery partition will be on the ext HDD and can be used for trouble shooting. A more convenient way to have the recovery/reinstallation environment is to create a Lion install USB thumb drive. -
Error when installing windows 8 onto my Macbook Pro
I am trying to download Windows 8 onto my Macbook Pro, it is a 2011 Model and is running OS X Lion 10.7.5.
I have created a bootable usb drive through bootcamp with a windows 64 bit iso.
I then go through the Bootcamp wizard, when the computer tries to install windows 8, it cannot recognise the bootable usb. It prompts me to enter a drive. Therefore upon restarting I press the alt key, which allows me to select EFI boot. Once I have done this, it starts the windows 8 wizard. However there is a problem with the partition. It says this partition is in the wrong format, so I press the format option however it still will not continue with the wizard. The exact error it says is as follows:
'Windows cannoy be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardwarre may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.'
I've been doing this for the last 6 hours to no avail, surely installing Windows 8 should not take this long. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, if anyone could help I would appreciate it greatly.
Thank you in advance.Hi Dawn,
Since you're using Boot Camp you should post your questions in the Boot Camp discussions, found here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165
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