Windows installer not booting after boot camp partition

I'm running OSX 10.9.4 and trying to boot camp windows 8. Everything is going right up until after the partition when the Mac restarts. It goes back to OSX and doesnt launch the windows installer.

I haven't really kept up lately but the only thing I see missing in your information is you didn't say if you had Formatted the Boot Camp partitiion to NTFS. The last I looked into Boot Camp that was one of the mandatory things you had to do in order for the installer to "see" the partition.
You end up formating it twice.
The original format when you make the Windows partition should be "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" it's done by the Mac (BootCamp) then when your booted from the Windows installer you then have to format it again with the NTFS format. And of course it has to be on an internal drive. And a full install disk not an upgrade disk. Boot Camp 5?
Take a gander at the instructions again and see if you might have missed a step?
Hope it helped, at least I bumped ya up.......

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Windows installer not booting up after resizing the partition

Hello.
I am trying to reinstalling Windows 8.1. pro on my macbook with Yosemite.
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I am not sure how to boot the Windows installer.
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Can you
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2. SMC Reset - Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
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hart40 wrote:
Did this actually work? My understanding is that Windows 7 regards this as two separate installations and that it won't work?
I'm trying to find out if I have to chose between bootcamp or Fusion or if I can work with both.
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As the title says, I'm trying to install windows 7 on my macbook - the 2009 13 inch model- and failing at it. I have been peeking around the net and I haven't found any solutions, so here I come.
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Hi and welcome to Discussions,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1899
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I had to replace my iMac due to hard drive and Logicboard failure, so I want to reinstall Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition. Will there be a problem reactivating Windows 7 Home Premium?

I had to replace my iMac due to HDD and Logicboard failure, so I want to reinstall Windows 7 on Boot Camp partition. Will there be a problem reactivating Windows 7 Home Premium?

Hi,
should be no problem.
Best case is you can activate online via Internet.
Worst case is you have to call Microsoft and explain that it is the same computer after a mainboard failure.
Regards
Stefan

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I'm looking for a Windows software to perform daily incremental backups from my Boot Camp partition to an external USB drive. It should also be possible to restore the COMPLETE Boot Camp partition from that backup in case of a hard drive failure. (It's NOT necessary that various versions of files are kept around-the-clock like Time Machine does. It's also not necessary that the backup itself is bootable.)
I've tried Genie TimelIne, but unfortunately it wasn't able to manage a complete restore. The taskbar was missing, no applications were installed (only present), settings were missing after the restore..., so I had to manually install nearly everything.
I've heard "Macrium Reflect" should be better. Is this true or does anyone have another good tip?
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coxorange wrote:
A bit difficult to test such a software including worst case recovery if you can't dispense with the concerned computer temporarily. And VERY time-consuming!! Hence I asked for personal experiences.
Well, Anyone elses personal experience won't mean much to you unless they have the same setup as you, so asking others for personal experience is as much of a crap shoot for you as doing it yourself. I went through lots of testing several years ago on my first MacBook Pro, but almost none of that testing is valid for my current machine. With the variations in machines, and machine configurations, what works for someone else might not work for you, and what might work for you might not work for someone else. I learned this when I was testing Colnexzilla as a possible backup/cloning tool. It worked fine on my MacBook Pro, but wouldn't work properly for a number of other users.
coxorange wrote:
What do you mean I'm confusing?
I always wrote about the Boot Camp partition.
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coxorange wrote:
As far as I know that's not enough to perform incremental backups including EVERYTHING on the Boot Camp partition.
If you use the Windows 7 data backup and perform incremental backups, you will have a backiup of all your data from the Windows partition. Isn't that want you want? If you want to perform a restore, it will not restore you back to a bootable drive, but it will have all your data and files backed up. If you want to perform a partition backup image, and make those backups incremental nightly, it might be possible. Since you are talking about a Boot Camp partition on a Mac here, you also need to clarify if you want this backup to run when teh system is booted into Windows, or when teh system is runnign MacOS, or ifit is acceptable to boot from yet another media for the backup purposes.
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Boot camp partition disappeared

Hello out there,
until the last hour I had a working system with a Mac OS X and Boot Camp partition.
After a reinstall of "Missing Sync for Windows Mobile" the Boot Camp partition icon has disappeared and is no longer shown in the start volume preference pane.
But it is still there, because I can select it during boot up, pressing the option key. And it is working fine...
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Regards
Ansgar
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Thanks for the reference. You saved my sanity, or what's left of it. In my desperation, I even started getting to know my partition tables on a first-name basis - a sure sign of madness.
My variation on the problem was that after a disk crash, I restored my system from Time Machine. I didn't quite realize that TM does not restore system extensions, like MacFUSE; it does, however, restore the MacFUSE plug-ins, like NTFS-3G. So NTFS-3G was claiming to handle the Windows partition, but actually wasn't. Based on your post, I tried disabling NTFS-3G from the System Preferences; that's when it told me that MacFUSE was not installed. Duh.
Greetings from Switzerland.
-- Philip
P.S. I use Missing Sync for Windows Mobile, too, and it works fine on 10.5.7 - or as well as it ever did on previous versions.

Windows disc does not update after resizing boot camp partition

When I bought my iMac, it came with a 500 GB HDD. I used bootcamp to make a 200GB windows partition and a 300GB Mac partition. The other day I bought a 250GB SSD, and moved everything from my 300GB Mac partition onto the SSD.
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I tried to fix this by filling up the hard drive with an extra 120 GB so it exceeded the 200GB limit that windows shows. But when I booted back into OSX to see if it had worked, none of the files were showing up in the drive, making me believe that boot camp and OS X are not reading changes I am making to the bootcamp drive when I use Windows.
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I will try to upload screenshots soon.

Re-sizing Windows partitions is not supported on Bootcamp. It requires a clean install. The other option is using Winclone.
Boot Camp 5.1: Frequently asked questions
How can a Windows partition be resized after Windows is installed?
You need to delete the Windows partition using the Boot Camp Assistant, and start over to change the size of the Windows partition. Back up your important Windows files first.

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