Your best guess--lion, bootcamp, and xp

I have a dual core iMac with snow leopard, bootcamp with xp installed and one program that I use in windows to run my embroidery machine. I never go to the Internet from xp, never print from xp, don't allow any windows updates, and have no security software installed under xp. All my embroidery designs are stored in snow leopard and transferred to flash drive and imported into windows xp when needed. I have time machine.
I read that apple will no longer "support" xp in future bootcamps. Would you "guess" that if I buy and install lion in July that lion won't touch my windows xp partition such that my xp/embroidery program will continue to work--even though apple won't be "supporting" xp?

It wouldn't hurt to install Microsoft's own Security Essentials. It works and does a fine job.
No one knows but every time even 10.6.8, someone will say "it killed my XYZ" and you should have backups.
Production machine: wait until .1 or .2 and don't rush in or take the plunge.
XP isn't supported on NEW hardware, Macs that have come out with new features and logicboards, and which aren't supported. SSDs: not supported by XP anyway. Not because of change to OS.
Start by preparing for a new OS. Create a bootable clone backup of OS X. Make a backup image of XP too, whether Winclone or Paragon or someone else's.

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IMac 27" (late 2011), Mountain Lion, Bootcamp, and OSX partition disappearing and refusing to mount

Hey all,
I'm putting this as a question in the discussion forms for bootcamp as I'm not sure where else to put it, but I resolved an issue I was having and having spent all of yesterday and the day before reading through this community and some others looking for answers and mostly seeing "hope you have backups, time to format!" (which to me is not always the best answer), I thought I would put it here for search purposes (with all the key words I had to use) in case anyone else has a similar issue.
My scenario was this:
2011 27" iMac with Mountain Lion installed and Windows 7 installed on a boot camp partition.
1) Haven't been in windows in a while, wanted to play some windows only steam games. Load windows 7. All is well. Have fun. Time to reboot into osx.
2) Reboot using bootcamp toolbar icon.
3) Wander away from computer. Come back to find windows 7 has loaded again. "That's weird", I think. Reboot again, this time hold down option key to select boot device.
4) Discover the only options are the Bootcamp partition and the Recovery partition. OSX "Macintosh HD" partition has disappeared. Huh.
5) Load recovery partition and load disk utility.
6) Review disk utility to discover the Macintosh HD partition shows up in the list, but won't mount. Run verify and repair tools. Errors are as follows: Invalid node structure, invalid key length, invalid record count, etc etc. Running a repair fails - disk utility advises me to back up and erase the drive and that the partition is unrepairable. No offense disk utility, but I think I'll try a few more options first.
7) Purchase DiskWarrior on advice of multiple posters in other threads and general online consensus of it being capable of fixing these sorts of errors. Go through process of loading bootable dvd.
8) Diskwarrior cannot see the Macintosh HD partition. This is bad. Review more threads. Advice is that if diskwarrior can't fix it, hope you have backups and wipe the drive. Likely to be hardware failure. I'm skeptical of hardware failure, because windows is chugging along running fine if I boot into it, and I ran a scan of the windows partition and it came back clean. SMART status is also showing the drive is ok. However, running out of options and starting to lose hope.
9) Follow advice in this support topic: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417?viewlocale=de_de Both safe mode and disk utility aren't options (safe mode won't work without it seeing the partition) so sounds like fsck is the final option.
10) Start up in Single User Mode (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492). Run fsck per instructions. It reports back ok.
11) Realize fsck is checking the recovery partition, and not my damaged OSX partition. Realize I don't know anything about unix commands and have no idea how to tell fsck to check a different partition.
12) Learn that I need to find out what the drive id is for the damaged partition. Reboot, load up disk utility, select greyed out "macintosh HD" partition, click info. Write down the id: disk0s2 (likely to be the default for you as well if you have one drive in your imac and a default bootcamp install).
13) Go back into single user mode and type the following (without quotes): "fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2"
14) (Forgot to copy down exactly what it said at this point, but gist of it was that the drive had errors and isnt repairable). Feel like ****, thinking this is unlikely to resolve itself nicely.
15) With nothing to lose, try to force fsck to rebuild the catalog - "fsck_hfs -rc -d /dev/disk0s2" I found this syntax on some forums and can't find the thread again. I have no idea what the -rc and -d do that -fy don't, but if someone can let me know, that'd be cool. Either way, this resulted in something actually happening. Tells me it is "rebuilding catalogue b-tree". Still, finishes with a bunch of errors about improperly linked files, more node errors, etc etc.
16) Retry "fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2". It seems to be doing stuff now, even though there are lots of errors. Continue to re-run fsck using this syntax. Probably ran it 10-15 times. Takes over an hour. Finally, minimal errors being reported.
17) Realize that perhaps I should try Diskwarrior again now, since I've managed to do soemthing to the partition with fsck.
18) Run Diskwarrior from bootable DVD. Success! It now sees the damaged partition. Reports that it has a bunch of damaged crtitical files, and needs to be repaired, but hey, at least it can see it.
19) Let Diskwarrior do its thing, and reboot.
20) Boot from repaired OSX partition. Rejoice. Immediately plug back in the timemachine drive you foolishly unplugged to take away over the holidays and neglected to plug back in before you had commenced work on stuff you didnt want to lose through formatting, which is why you are so desperate to recover files rather than wiping and restoring from time machine backups and avoiding this whole mess.
TL;DR - If Disk Utility and DriveWarrior fail you, try running fsck (using different syntax that apple recommends) as many times as it takes to get the partition to a stage where diskwarrior can see it. All advice I saw for similar questions was to erase, reinstall OSX, and restore from time machine backup. For those of you who are foolish like me and had files that werent time machine'd, or those who operate without, maybe try this.
Hope this helps!

What -rc & -d do.
From: The fsck_hfs manual page.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages /man8/fsck_hfs.8.html
-d      Display debugging information. This option may provide useful information when fsck_hfs cannot repair a damaged file system.
-r      Rebuild the catalog btree. This is synonymous with -Rc.
-R flags Rebuilds the requested btree. The following flags are supported:
                         a       Attribute btree
                         c       Catalog btree
                         e       Extents overflow btree
I had the same problem as you but unfortunately "fsck_hfs -rc -d /dev/disk0s2" is failing saying: "The volume   could not be verified completely." I believe it's supposed to be telling me the partition's name (normally "Macintosh HD") between 'volume' and 'could' because there's 3 spaces in between the words.
"fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2" is failing with the same error.
I tried "fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk0s2" since the c appears redundant with a lowercase R. and it again says it cannot be verified completely and adds "volume check failed with error 7". Which unfortunately is not documented on the fsck_hfs man page!
Unfortunately for me, Diskwarrior still can't see my busted Mac OS partition.

Lion Bootcamp and Win7

I have installed Clean Lion.
In Finder are Macintosh HD and Windows HD (with Win7)
Then i opening Bootcamp, he cannot see my Windows partition, only Macintosh.
Now, i wanna reinstall win7, but i can't, because they are, but Bootcamp cant see.
Picture:
Help. And Thanks for attention.

It looks like you already have a drive formated for Windows. If you put your windows 7 install disc in the drive and then restart the computer and hold down the option key, the windows 7 install disc should be an option in the boot menu. This should help your problem.

Lion, Bootcamp and Vista

Hi, just installed Lion and then Bootcamp failed - couldn't boot into Vista. So tried reinstalling but now can't find the drivers for Vista - Lion downloaded only those for Windows 7. Do Vista versions exist?

Vista will not work you will need Windows 7.
Run Boot camp Assistant that is included with Mountain Lion to create the Bootcamp partition for installing Windows 7.

Lion Bootcamp and XP

As far as I know does the Bootcamp version of Lion not support XP anymore (i.e. missing drivers). In case I still have to use XP is it possible to use the drivers which are included on my still existing Snow Leopard DVD?

Since, I'm not allowed to comment on anything related to Lion Development outside of the development forums.
All I can say is, it is Logical that if you are running Windows XP in Bootcamp along with Snow Leopard and subsequently upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion, this will not affect the Windows XP Partition. Windows XP will still run. Updading an OS on one partition, should not affect the OS on the other partition.
It is reported that Lion will not ship with driver support for Windows XP. However, I see no reason why the driver package included with Snow Leopard will not work with one exception, post-Lion Apple Hardware. The drivers contained in Snow Leopard package will not support new hardware. Pre-Leopard hardware with Snow Leopard installation disks should still work. I can't say for 100% certainty it will work but I would bet my MacBook Pro that it will.

How can i run Lion, SL and Bootcamp on the same disk?

Hi everyone,
I have an i7 Imac with Lion preinstalled so first of all i installed windows with bootcamp
and then for many reason i had to make a new partition with Snow Leopard using target disk mode from a mbp.
Now the problem is that i can't see anymore my bootcamp partition at the startup disk (when i press alt after the bong).
Even if i try to change startup disk from system preferences it says that the disk is not bootable.
I tryed to make the bootcamp partition active using rdisk fromt he terminal with no succes :/
I hope you guys can help me
Thank you

if you have two hard drives the easiest might be to install panther on the second hard drive. this way you don't have top partition anything. make sure the drive is properly formatted it should be formatted mac os extended journaled with APM partition scheme. then just boot from the Panther install disk and install panther on the second drive. note that this will only work if your mac originally came with panther. did it?
to switch between installs you can change the startup disk in system preferences->startup disk. then reboot. alternatively, reboot normally and hold option at the chime. this will boot you into startup disk manager where you can choose which drive to boot from.

While trying to sync my calendar to my new mac, I lost all my calendsr events on my iPhone. Best guess is I calends't set up icloud on my phone first and my computer delted them. Is there any way to recover them from iCloud?

While trying to sync my calendar to my new mac, I lost all my calendar events on my iPhone. Best guess is I didn't set up icloud on my phone first and my computer deleted them. Is there any way to recover my calendar from iCloud?

Your music will only be where you put it.
Did you copy all of your music from your backup copy of your old computer to your new one?

Bootcamp and OS X Lion

Would bootcamp be affected after installing OS X Lion?

I had a number of problems with bootcamp and Lion.
After finally getting Lion on my system I had problems accessing Windows.
I could hold 'Alt' button and see the Windows Drive. When I selected it, the start up began then the system went to re-boot. 'Round and 'round I went. Not even Safe-Mode would get me all the way in.
Now it is fixed.
I had to take my Windoze XP disk and do a repair. (please back up)
**There is a particular way I had to do this, so I didn't lose my data and settings inside Windows.
1. Turned off computer
2. Turned on and got to the Boot Camp screen where I could select which drive I wanted
3. Inserted my XP disk
4. The XP disk becomes a 'selectable' start-up drive
5. Selected the XP disk to start
6. When prompted to 'Repair' or 'Install' - Selected 'INSTALL' - NOT 'Repair'.
7. At the install screen, a search was done to see if Windows XP was already installed
8. When it found that XP was installed, I was given the option to 'install' or 'repair' the one already there - *Now* I selected 'R' to Repair.
I noticed that right away many files began to be deleted. I was very worried. Then, it took about 45 mins - to one hour - to re-install the files.
After a re-start you must enter in your Windows Authenticity Code so be sure you have it! After a another re-boot or two, I was able to open in Windows normally. All of my personal files, documents, programs, and settings were intact and fine.
I had to re-download IE8, Service Pack 3, and another hours worth of updates, since my XP disk only had Service Pack 2 on it.
Overall, I'd say this was the most miserable experience I've had with any sort of Apple update. There were no warnings or instructions or help for the potential problems encountered with Lion. They just 'threw us the lions' and said fend for yourselves!
Of the many, many posts I've read (trying to fix all my *update* issues), it seem that most people with problems, who called support, have reported that support instructed them to wipe the HD and start over! Really?? Thats a solution? You sound like Windows.
I am not an expert so any advice above may destroy your computer.

Bootcamp and Lion

If Bootcamp was previously installed prior to upgrading to Lion which does not support this Bootcamp version, am I able to delete/uninstall that version of Bootcamp and reinstall a newer version with new partitions? What is the best method to do this? Thanks!

Ain't broken so why fix it (or go through buying and installing 7)?
am I able to delete/uninstall that version of Bootcamp and reinstall a newer version with new partitions? What is the best method to do this?
You are not technically uninstalling Boot Camp, you are or would be doing a clean install or upgrade to 7, and then install/add BC 4.01 drivers.
There is a BC control panel and Apple calls it a Program. A catch all and misused term.
Windows-on-Mac would be better.
Leave as is. Even XP can be left as is usually as well.
You should think about leaving as is, or how to do an upgrade or clean install.

Hi i downloaded windows on my macbook pro without bootcamp and it deleted the mac portion of my laptop and i downloaded os x but my laptop started off with os x lion and i want os x lion back on my laptop what do i do

hi i downloaded windows on my macbook pro without bootcamp and it deleted the mac portion of my laptop and i downloaded os x but my laptop started off with os x lion and i want os x lion back on my laptop what do i do now?

timothymac123 wrote:
and i downloaded os x but my laptop started off with os x lion and i want os x lion back on my laptop what do i do now?
I'm confused. Are you saying that your mac came with an older version of OS X, but you want to be able to use OS X Lion, which you downloaded from the App store? If this is not the case, what do you mean by "I downloaded os x but my laptop started off with os x lion and i want os x lion back"? Specifically, what do you mean by "I downloaded OS X" if your mac came with Lion?

IMac with bootcamp and parallel boots into windows 7 but won't boot intoxc lion.

IMac with bootcamp and parallel boots into windows 7 but won't boot into Mac OS lion?

Hi,
Thanks for your suggestion. Actually that was not the problem, because I had the Mcintosh drive set as my boot drive. The answer was that my Lion Os got somehow corrupted and I had to reinstalll Lion. This was all after I discussed the situation with the Apple Support people.

HT4410 I have just installed Windows 7 64-bit full version Home Premium using Bootcamp and cannot get access to the internet. I installed on a Macbook Air Mid 2012 with Mountain Lion. Are there some drivers that are missing from the Windows 7

Dear Apple. I have just installed Windows 7 64-bit full version Home Premium using Bootcamp and cannot get access to the internet. I installed on a Macbook Air Mid 2012 with Mountain Lion. Are there some drivers that are missing from the Windows 7 bootcamp install download from Apple

It is a Total Misconception that the Support files are installed when you are installing Windows, even if the USB drive that holds them is inserted in the system when doing the Windows install.
You must always Run the Setup.exe files from the support files or run the drivers individually once Windows has finished installing and booted to the desktop.
Also you really need to run the Boot Camp Control Panel Applet and check for updates as not all the newest drivers for full function of all the hardware is included with the original support download. That download is basically a generic version to get the system working and without doing the updates not everything will work properly.

I am going to buy a mac mini i7 with 3 thunderbolt displays for forex trading. the question is if i use bootcamp and run windows on the mac mini will the displays still run the same way as if i was running it on Lion?

I am going to buy a mac mini i7 with 3 thunderbolt displays for forex trading. the question is if i use bootcamp and run windows on the mac mini will the displays still run the same way as if i was running it on Lion?

No idea if Windows will do it, but you can run Windows without Bootcamp & have OSX available at the same time, which should give you all the Monitors that OSX uses.
Parallels...
http://www.parallels.com/
VmWare Fusion...
http://www.vmware.com/mac

What does this alert mean? "To use this disk as a source, restart your computer using recovery system and open DU again." Trying to clone Lion?

Errors making a bootable clone? Message said "To use this disk as a source, restart your computer using recovery system and open DU again". Need help making a bootable clone of a MacPro/Lion to a new external hard drive? Thanks.

Use CarbonCopyCloner or Super Duper.

W7 install and LION issues and appearance of disk0s4.

What is going on here?
I have always used bootcamp and previous OSX successfully with Windows, until LION. Now I am able to boot to windows from a "power off".power on>option button down.select windows icon HD. But cannot do so on a simple restart (no HD's icons are displayed), and in system preferences Startup Disk pane..windows is not there, and in disk utility my windws disk is idenitfied by disk0s4 (not mounted, MS DOS Fat, no files, but 100gb size is there).
Perhaps someone has some insight or suggestins on this.
1) Installed LION using bootcamp.
2) Now, choice for duo boot is only after power down>power up>push option button, if I simply do restart it never shows the duo boot icons (with option key down).
3) Inside of Lion, the windows icon in [I]startup disc in preferences [/I]is missing
4) Disk Utility shows Mac Volume and a Volume titled disk0s4 (not mounted) and format is shown as MS-DOS FAT (but yet in windows 7 it shows it as a NTSF)
Like I said W7 does work fine and I can boot back to LION using the bootcamp icon.
-I have tried disk repair from booting off my USB Utility, Repair is not possible on the disk0s4 (like I said it does not mount, does not show files, does show the correct partition amount of 100gb.
[B]Here's how it looks. MAC SIDE[/B]
Disk Utility show current drives: Mac and disk0s4
[IMG]http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt95/DonCarlosDon/DiskUtility.jpg[/IMG]
Disk Utility showing disk0s4, not mounted, no files MS DOS(fat)
[IMG]http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt95/DonCarlosDon/disk0s4.jpg[/IMG]
StarUp disk in preferences. Only Mac drive is shown:
[IMG]http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt95/DonCarlosDon/STARTUP.jpg[/IMG]
[B]Here's how it looks WINDOWS side[/B]
[IMG]http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt95/DonCarlosDon/SystemManagementW7.jpg[/IMG]
[B]Here's how it looks from EASUS view:[/B]
[IMG]http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt95/DonCarlosDon/Easusviewofharddrive.jpg[/IMG]
Window 7 work fine but I cannot choose a startup disk from inside of Lion nor is there a Duo boot icons if I just hold option from a simple restart (again I do have that duo option choice of displayed hard drive icons, if I start from a power off only).
1) I am guessing that the bootcamp volume disk0s4 is not really formatted as NFTS or is not recognized by LION as an NTFS volume and so it doesn't show it mounted and is not displayed in the disk startup pane; and hence will not show up even with an option button down or a simple restart of mac.
2) Doubtful if there is a way or program that could simple covert the disk0s4 volume to NTSF?
3) I have reinstalled twice ob Bootcamp and had the same results.
I coulld leave the way it is and just power on my mini each tme I want windows, but this shouldn;t be like this correct?
Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

Hello,
I see a couple responses/questions after my original post. Sorry, but I never knew they were there until this last question arrived.
Currently I removed the Bootcamp partition to recover the hard drive space since I really had no use for windows.
I kinda of forgot the resolution, until I serached posts I made at my macmini forum back then. here is the post, and the soultion was pretty simple and straighforward..
I also include the post previous to that concerning BootChamp as a way of adding a quick boot icon to you mac menu.
Hope this helps, let me know.
Don
My original two post from macmini fourm in 2012......................
I upgraded the HD on my mac and when I was finished, decided to leave Windows 7 off it for awhile. Two weeks ago, I had a heck of time after I reinstalled to successfully boot into it from within mac. It didn't show up on preferences start up pane, nor did it show up in the Disk Uitlity sidebar........ Very very long story.....but unless you wants specifics....it boiled down to that although W7 was indeed alive and working, the bootcamp partition appeared as a strange volume called disk0s4, an unmountable FATS 32 something or other. Even though W7 was in fact an NTSF volume (that;s what it showed within W7 and thats what it showed even on a third party Easus program.
Despite help from two apple phone techs and a genius visit....no one could correct this. Lion was loaded repeatedly from USB, self made DVD's, and partitions were expanded, shrunk, created, deleted,(my drive was formatted, reformatted, deformatted, unformatted, downformattted upformatted, and overformatted). LOL....All experts surmised that it had something to do with Recovery partition. When an Apple Tech Supervisor said "Hey now let's try first formatting the entire drive to NTSF, then format over that HFS+, then install LION fresh, set up a dummy mac account and then Bootcamp W7 and then after that works, then migrate your LION backup from time machine.........Yikes, I knew that they had no answer.
As I said......W7 existed and worked great and booted back to LION, but W7 was not seen in DiskUtilty or anything else, hence no restart to W7 from inside Mac was possible. And that was my major issue, every time that I successfully installed W7, as the last step after trying all their nonsense.
Too many hours lost over this and short of trying a south american shaman, I decided to take a leap and try something simple. Alas, BootChamp. I reloaded a fresh BootChamp copy, and it came through where Apple and a multitude of advice givers could not. Now I can reboot to W7 from inside of my mini. Bootchamp is TOPS !!!! -Don
My post concerning BootChamp and it's ability to add a quick boot and icon for windows................
I was always frustrated by the fact that there was not a reboot icon on the Mac desktop to go to windows (like the Bootcamp icon on the W7 task bar).
Well "Lo and Behold" check out BootChamp http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28468/bootchamp
Developed by Kevin Wojniak http://www.kainjow.com
Works great, and easy to install and use. The windows icon is located at the top toolbar.
I even wrote to Kevin and he responded back to me immediately. Make sure you download the latest version from his sitehttp://www.kainjow.com , and be sure that you uncheck Next Restart Only and leave the check by Launch At Startup, if you want the icon to appear at every restart. It kind of threw me off until I did that.
The first time you boot to windows it will ask you for your password, then after that it does not any further.
Makes for one less step when you want to boot to windows from your desktop.
Bravo Kevin for developing this free tool. This should have came with Bootcamp....perhaps Apple should buy it off of him. -Don

Your best guess--lion, bootcamp, and xp

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