Would this be suitable for boot camp?

Would this be suitable for boot camp?
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I don't know... why not just say what it is rather than having to visit the site?
Any XP SP2 or similar, OEM or System Builder, but not Dell or HP specific (not that a couple people didn't get theirs to work).
Or download Windows RC 7 for free while there are a couple days remaining.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

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Will this version work for boot camp?

im not entirely sure what version of windows 7 i should get.
i purchased the one here: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/pd/productID.216644200/flyout.true
but now that i lok into it more im thinking that its not a full version. if so what type should i get? I also have parallels and im not sure if i use boot camp if i need both of i need to buy windows if i do use parallels. any help would be appreciated, thanks.

You bought an upgrade version, not recommended for Boot Camp unless you have Windows Vista installed with Boot Camp previously. You must buy the full version

Need to format the partition for Boot Camping to NTFS. How do I do this?

So yes, I have searched online to find a way to format the partitioned to NTFS so I can Boot Camp my Mac Mini and have found nothing that I can use. Instead, all I have found are horror stories of others messing up their Macs when doing this. I want to be sure I do this as correctly as possible because I do adore my computer.
For Boot Camping, I have followed the steps and started the installation of Windows 7 but when it comes to choosing the partition it says I can't because it's not in NTFS format. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Heh! Yes, it's one of those things that are simple, once you know where to look. Glad you got it figured out.
You won't quite be done once Win 7 is done installing. You'll notice that the graphics in Windows likely won't be very good, and in general running kind of slow. That's because the Windows DVD had no drivers for Mac hardware.
So you need your Snow Leopard disk. Either the first gray disk your Mac came with, it if shipped with Snow Leopard, or the retail disk you purchased.
From the Windows 7 desktop, put the Snow Leopard disk in the drive. Windows will pop up the usual message about what you want to do with an external drive. Choose "Run Setup". It will run for a while as the drivers for your Mac hardware are installed for Win 7.
Once that's done, you'll have menu icon for Apple Software Update. Run that to see if it needs to download and install any other Boot Camp updates, which would any updated Win 7 drivers for you Mac.

Can I use a NVIDIA card only for Boot Camp in MacPro5,1

I bought an ACER HN274H 3D monitor and then found out that 3D (primarily for gaming) won't work with the ATI Radeon HD 5870 card that I have in the PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. I assume the easiest fix would be to put a NVIDIA card in one of the remaining PCI Express 2.0 x4 slots. A post from 2008 said that 2 cards should work if only one is plugged into the monitor at a time - one for MacOSX and the other for Boot Camp. I wanted to confirm if that still is the case for Boot Camp where I'm running Windows 7. What would be a reasonable NVIDIA card that would not exceed power of 300W combined maximum for all PCI Express slots (no other PCI cards currently); primarily for gaming with 3D option.
This would be for a Mac Pro bought in Nov 2010. Other relevant info:
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          3.2 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          4
BTW, HN274H works ok in 2D for both OS's.
thanks!

ebay or eVGA for used and refurbished GTX 285, though eVGA may be out of those, they were $129 after selling for $449-499, Mac Edition.
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300W is without using two 6-pin aux power video card cables, 75W per slot.
So as long as the 5870 is present you need to look into a 450W PSU to rig together to add 6/8-pin aux power to an additional card.
My understanding though is that a PC card under OS X needs support, the fan can run constantly.... not my forte as to how and what to expect.
OSX and Graphics Cards
GTX 460 and above would fill your needs.

Clone Windows HD to use for Boot Camp

Hello Apple Forum!
I have a bit of an issue. I have had a laptop where the motherboard has died on me. The harddrive is perfectly fine though. What i want to do is clone the hard drive and have that set as the partition for Boot Camp. Is this possible?
- First, could I put the hard drive into another laptop to clone it to an external HD? Even though there will be driver issues when I boot up WIndows 7 Pro.
- Second, once I have the copied image onto my external hard drive, could I clone that to the boot camp partition?
Or, would I need to install a fresh installation of Windows 7 Pro on the Boot Camp, then download Acronis True Image and allow Acronis to handle the disk image on my external hard drive?
Thanks.

Moving Windows means
You have retail copy in order to reactivate
Dell OEM won't work
The motherboard drivers are totally different and can't be uninstalled.
Clean install is required
I'll leave it to you as to what methods to clone that can restore onto a Mac with hyrid GPT

How do I partition my hard drive for boot camp?

Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro1,2
Processor Name:          Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed:          2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          2 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          667 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP12.0061.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.5f10
Serial Number (system):
Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CB982183
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
Okay so this is my machine. I want to run Boot Camp and to install Windows XP onto the machine as I need to use certain windows programmes for my business as well as the Mac stuff.
I have no idea how to partition some of my free 26gb space to create a drive to install windows onto?
Can any help please?

dpx wrote:
If you do really want to partition your hard drive then you need to look in your utilities folder for disk utility.
Once this is open, click on your hard drive image in the left hand column and then you will see a partition tab. Here you can split your HD into two partitions. Call one of them XP or something like that so that you know where to install windows.
It's quite safe and you can always go back to one big partition if things do not work out.
Remember though to backup first...
To the OP
Do not heed this advice, you should use Boot Camp Assistant to create the partition for Boot Camp, do not use Disk Utility.

HT3777 how to undo partition for boot camp

I want to undo the partition for boot camp, we never use it and use VMware
instead. Can this be done?

So you never installed Windows natively and Fusion is not using anything other than its own image?
Some people dual boot and use VM.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818
The install guide is also how to remove the partition, you do so from same utility.
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macos
Seeing you are on 10.5.8 ? then that really goes back to 2008, too.
But G5s never supported Windows, so guess you have a different system now.

Is this router suitable for BT infinity ASUS RT-...

HI,
I would like to change my HH3 for a different Router. The Router below has some very good reviews , would this be suitable with BT Infinity ? HERE
I don't know much about Routers so would this be the same as if ...... Broadband from your telephone line ADSL Router is needed ....... Broadband from Fibre cable [like Virgin /M ] DSL Router.
Is the Fibre cable BT/Infinity use the same as VM use? and would I need a DSL Router?.
What is the correct term for the Routers for ADSL and CABLE .
Thanks for any help
Gary.
ASUSTeK COMPUTER ASUS RT-N56U Wireless router - 4-port switch (integrated) - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n

yeah i did read the firmware was good and also the wireless range was top notch too >) it does look very classy as well and for £89 or maybe cheaper its a good price to pay the Draytek 2750n is £140 maybe more in places
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Would you recommend parrallels or boot camp

Would you recommend Parrells or boot camp for using Windows on and MacBook Pro.

Depends upon your needs.
Virtual machine software w/Windows. Runs Windows in a window on OS X.
Pros:
A: More convenient, easier to revert to earlier "snapshots" of the entire OS state, as many as you need.
B: Switch back and forth between Windows and OS X quickly.
C: Great for low demand programs most people use.
D: More stable and less hassle, vm software takes all the work out.
E: Malware/pr0n attack, just flush the whole OS and revert to a earlier version.
F: Doesn't require space hogging drive partitioning
G: Run other versions of Windows, even Linux, all at the same time as long as you have the memory.
Cons:
A: A performance hit especially if your hardware is weak or you have a demanding program(s).
B: 3D games run about 1/5th the performance of native boot.
Bootcamped Windows
Pros:
A: full hardware access and performance
Cons:
A: A hassle to set up, even though Apple assists a lot, Windows doesn't help.
B: Drivers for the hardware come from Apple.
C: Having to reboot to use it.
D: Malware attack, your dumping Windows and reinstalling.
E: Must dedicate a set space for Windows to use on the drive (aka partition)
F: Must hold option key to boot into either OS. Only one can be set as the default boot OS.
G: Can only run Windows 7 64 bit, although tweaks perhaps can run others.
Both:
Some VM software will take the previous Bootcamp install and make a virtual machine out of it to run in OS X.
So for day to day use of Windows for low key programs you use the vm, and for 3D games and other heavy performance you direct boot.
If you keep the Bootcamp Windows off the Internet and accessing shared files, emails etc from other Windows, don't install crap in there and keep it virgin as possible, it will be fine and malware free.
Leave all the risk behavior on the vm Windows, that way you can flush it quickly.
Microsoft validation works fine in either as it's all the same hardware.
Virtual machine software choices: VmFusion, Parallels, free VirtualBox.

I'm new to boot camp and have always used Parallels which was easier to install but now I can't get my hands on Windows 8 for boot camp? What do i do?

I'm new to boot camp and have always used Parallels which was easier to install but now I can't get my hands on Windows 8 for boot camp? What do i do?

There is no Windows for Boot Camp. just buy a copy of Windows.

HT1461 For Boot Camp, if you save a file when you are on the Windows side, when you return to the Mac side, can you see the file or can it only be "seen" on the operating side you create it in?

For Boot Camp, if you save a file when you are on the Windows side, when you return to the Mac side, can you see the file or can it only be "seen" on the operating side you create it in?

Why don't you (generic most every post lacks critical details) be clear and say you never used Mac OS etc.
But, I did try to anticipate and give you what you needed.
Excel is one of those rare programs that, if they are extremely large complex spreadsheets still tend to run better under Office for Windows.
A VM won't do for that but it does make it easier to transition. As in: install Windows natively, then use VMware Fusion or Parallels to attach to the partition and OS. That way you can run Windows as Guest OS VM under Mac; and still run Windows natively dual-boot when needed.
The word "see" was not what you wanted, was it? really? you want to open and make changes and keep it on Windows side rather than Save As or copy to Mac
You use Windows and don't know it has NTFS (NT FileSystem)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_File_System (HFS) native file system used by Apple
And there is much more UEFI style "bios" and other things I suppose.
Great thing about Google and encyclopedias or dictionary, you can look up what you don't know.

I can´t find windows support files for boot camp

I can´t find windows support files for boot camp

Boot Camp Assistant
If you can't download, go to Network control panel and check your settings there, look to see if there is more than one interface listed. And turn off "Auto-proxy setting" and see if that helps, it does in half the cases.
The only thing really needed would be a small Apple Software Update for Windows program to pull the drivers down while running Windows. Just that one program, which could update itself as happen with 2.0 and 2.1 version.
As it is, downloads can take 8 hrs for a tiny 620MB package. Strange. True. Been like this.

Custom icon for Boot Camp partition on Snow Leopard desktop?

I have a Boot Camp partition (NTFS) with Windows XP. In Snow Leopard, the partition shows on the desktop with a generic hard drive icon. I'd like to change this to a custom icon, but when trying to paste over the generic icon in the Get Info window, Edit->Paste is grayed out.
In Leopard, it was possible to have a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition by formatting a thumb drive as FAT32, pasting the custom icon onto it in the Get Info window, booting into Windows XP, and copying two invisible icon files from the thumb drive to the NTFS drive. This would display the custom icon for the Boot Camp partition icon on the Leopard desktop. This doesn't work in Snow Leopard.
Is it possible to use a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition on the Snow Leopard desktop?

I don't see this option in Properties for the Boot Camp volume. In any case, I believe the custom icon is set correctly for the C: drive in Windows. I followed he procedure in the second paragraph of my initial post, which I learned from a post over a year ago. I copied the two hidden files .VolumeIcons.icns and ._ File _ to the C: drive. When I boot into Leopard, the correct custom icon for the Boot Camp partition appears on the Leopard desktop. But when I boot into Snow Leopard, only a generic hard drive icon appears on the desktop for that partition.

Custom icon for Boot Camp partition?

I have a Boot Camp partition (NTFS) with Windows XP. In Snow Leopard, the partition shows on the desktop with a generic hard drive icon. I'd like to change this to a custom icon, but when trying to paste over the generic icon in the Get Info window, Edit-->Paste is grayed out.
In Leopard, it was possible to use a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition by formatting a thumb drive as FAT32, pasting the custom icon onto it in the Get Info window, booting into Windows XP, and copying two invisible icon files from the thumb drive to the NTFS drive. This would display the custom icon for the Boot Camp partition icon on the Leopard desktop. This doesn't appear to work in Snow Leopard.
Is it possible to use a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition on the Snow Leopard desktop?

No one knows of any fix for this in Snow Leopard? The custom icon shows up OK when I boot into Leopard, but not in Snow Leopard.

What format should my usb drives be for boot camp

I am Installing Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 on my late 2012 Mac Mini. I have the S/W on my desktop as an .iso format, and my test to check if Boot Camp would find it worked. Now I will be getting an USB drive (my 4GB wasn't big enough so will use it for the drivers), so before going on this process trying to cover all bases. I'm assuming an 8GB thumb drive should be enough. I'm also assuming the 4GB drive formatted in FAT should be ok since Windows 7 has to read it, does the drive for the disk image have to be MAC Ext'd or FAT?
Any help on this is appreciated, I'm pretty new to all this stuff and hate running into problems during this process will be hairy! Any other pointers is greatly appreciated.

Got Win 7 64bit installed with a few problems.
From the start I'm unable to use my wireless magic mouse. It shows up under Bluetooth devices, but can't get it to sync up.
After getting the wireless keyboard synced & working had a number of updates to install. After that the keyboard is not functioning and can't be synced.
Any suggestions, not of the questions I put into this section came back with a solution, might be the question I ask? Can someone link a post in the discussion forum to solve this.
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