Questions about Boot Camp, a utility included with Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion (10.5, 10.6, 10.7) operating systems that assists users in installing other operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers.
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Can MacDrive break my Time Machine backups?
I'm running Lion and also have bootcamp Win7 installed. I haven't booted win 7 for a several month but some days ago was urged to do it. After successful boot in Win 7 I got some weird MacDrive error ...
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Lion and Boot Camp Windows 7 cannot agree on a system time. What did I do wrong?
I run Lion and Windows 7 on a MacBook, using Boot Camp and Parallels. Both operating systems are set to the same time zone and, presumably, use the same clock.
For some reason Windows 7 insists on ...
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Getting Bluetooth to Work After Moving Boot Camp Partition to New Mac
I had a Boot Camp partition with Windows 7 on my 2008-era MacBook Pro, and everything worked fine.
I have a new MacBook Pro. I partitioned it using the Boot Camp Assistant, and then I copied my old ...
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2011 Mac Mini boot camp problems
I Have a 2011 Mac mini and I installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp. All the drivers are working fine, except the sound and the bluetooth. Since my internet connection is really lousy, I don't want to ...
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Installing Windows 7 without a SuperDrive in Boot Camp on 2010 MBP
Just switched out my SuperDrive for an SSD on my 2010 MacBook Pro and am running into whale of a time trying to get Windows 7 installed onto the SSD for Boot Camp. Initially tried installing via an ...
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No image on TV when connected using HDMI cable to MacBook pro when booted in bootcamp
I have a MacBook Pro with an NVidia GT 330M graphics board and mini display port output.
I purchased an HDMI converter for the computer, and connected it to my TV (Panasonic GT30). When booted in ...
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How long should Boot Camp formatting selecting drive take?
I'm trying to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp Assistant. Now the boot camp is on task "Formatting the selected drive" and it has been going on three hours and it is not even on the half way. How ...
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Boot Camp installs in wrong language. How can I fix this?
I have a MacBook with an English keyboard running Lion in English. I used Boot Camp to download the WindowsSupport package and then installed 32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate, also in English.
Turns out the ...
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How do I restore a Windows 7 System Image to a OS X Lion Boot Camp partition?
I just updated the hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I decided to also take the opportunity to upgrade it to Lion. I previously had Boot Camp under Snow Leopard. I created a new Boot Camp partition and ...
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Any Issues Using Non-HFS+ As Data Partition?
Boot Camping with a 3rd partition (I know it's non-standard) for data sharing/ease of reinstallations, and possibly to keep applications too… Options are exFAT or NTFS-3G. I went with exFAT originally ...
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Mac and Windows dual boot problem
I have a software problem with my Mac laptop:
I had made a division in the hard drive some time ago and installed Windows in the other partition using Bootcamp software.
But now I think that the ...
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Running windows on iMac updates system settings
When I boot my iMac onto windows partition and then reboot into Snow Leopard my system time is updated (reverted on hour back).
This occurs even though I have 'locked' the system time on Snow ...
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Can I install Parallels alongside Boot Camp?
I have a 24" iMac and have used Boot Camp to install Vista on a 100GB partition of the hard drive. Can I install Parallels Desktop as well so it will be easier to switch between Mac and Windows?
I ...
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Is it impossible to install windows 7 via boot camp in a lion based macbook air?
I have installed windows xp/vista through bootcamp with snow leopard (boot camp 3.x) several times. After a fresh installation of lion on my macbook air, something has changed.
With boot camp 4.0, I ...
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Bootcamp, Face Time HD camera image - How to “Flip Horizontal”
I am using the built in Face Time HD camera (iMac Mid 2011) via Bootcamp on Windows 7. It basically works great, but I need to switch the output image horizontally. The software I am using does not ...
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How do I split a Bootcamp Partition on a second drive?
I have a Mac Mini Server 2011, which has 2 Hard disks of 750GB each.
I want to install Windows 7 on the second disk, but i want to split this disk on two partitions: One of 450 GB for Windows and one ...
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How can I make my Terminal login as my mac account and now bootcamp partition?
I recently installed windows 7 on a partition using bootcamp and all went well. Now i am trying to use terminal on my original mac partition on OSX but the command line comes up as:
myusername-Win7:~ ...
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Boot Camp Windows 7 Taskbar overlapping maximized windows
I have Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium x64 installed under Boot Camp 4.0 in OS X Lion (10.7.2) on the 2011 Mac mini and it's also hooked into Parallels Desktop 7 as a VM when I need it in OS X.
An ...
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No Bootable Device error when trying to install Win7 on a MBP (mid 2007 SR) / Lion
After formatting the HDD to a single HFS+ Journaled partition and installing a clean 10.7 System on the machine, I ran the Boot Camp Assistant, created the CD with drivers and partitioned the disk. I ...
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Create Windows 7 installation disk option
I am currently running Lion on my late 2010 Macbook Air. The new bootcamp has an option to create windows 7 installation disk from usb and iso. I have both but bootcamp won't let me select that ...
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How Can I Restart in Windows Using a Script?
I'd like to be able to reboot into the Boot Camp partition without needing to go change the Startup Disk in System Preferences or holding down the Option key at startup.
After reading some stuff on ...
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How to clone an entire disk with Lion (+Rescue) & Bootcamp Partitions
I have a faulty (hardware-wise) drive in my 2011 macbook pro and will probably get a replacement drive from the vendor, but I was wondering whether there is (by now) a way (tool) to clone the disk ...
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Can a Macbook dual boot Snow Leopard and Lion? [duplicate]
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Dual Boot Lion / SL
My Macbook currently has Snow Leopard on it. I'd like to try Lion as well, but is there a way to make it dual boot either one, perhaps using ...
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With Mac Pro, is software RAID 0 worth it?
Does anyone have any reason to believe RAID 0 is any faster than independent drives on a Mac Pro?
I have always run my Mac Pro with all five drives in RAID 0. I recently decided to try out Bootcamp ...
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Bootcamp - Multiple Windows installations, how do delete one?
I've got a Mac Pro with 3 hard drives:
1 x 7200rpm 640GB - 1/2 for OS X - 1/2 for Windows 7 (Bootcamp)
2 x 5400 Western Digital'Eco-drive' (runs like a dog and is only useful for backups and ...
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Can't eject Windows 7 install disk to get drivers from Snow Leopard Install Disk
Alright. I'm angry at this.
I'm on a 2008 Macbook Pro, running snow leopard trying to install windows 7.
During the "find drivers" phase still in mac, it can't.
So according to apple I'm supposed ...
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Where can I find drivers for Windows 7 on an iMac without Boot Camp Assistant?
I have OS X installed on my 27" iMac and want to dual boot with Windows 7. I installed rEFit and then installed Windows 7. Now I need the drivers that normally get installed with Boot Camp Assistant. ...
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Magic Mouse Middle Click in Windows 7 64-bit Bootcamp?
This question might be similar to some that others have posted, but I want to be more specific: Does anyone know how to enable Magic Mouse's middle-click in Windows Bootcamp (specifically Win 7 x64)?
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Display is set to Mobile PC Display on Windows when I run it on Macbook Pro via boot camp
Just installed Windows using boot camp. I downloaded the drivers using boot camp. After installing the display says: Mobile PC Display. I have 15 inch Macbook Pro. What display driver do I need to ...
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Ethernet driver missing when installing Windows using boot camp
I installed Windows 7 64 bit using bootcamp. The Ethernet driver is missing. Can't find it search on disk. Where do I get this driver?
I have a Macbook Pro OS X
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Bootcamp and Windows 8 don't get along [closed]
As far as Microsoft vs Apple, I'm in an awkward place. I love them both, but sadly that doesn't mean they love each other.
As some of you know, Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8 on ...
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Can't load boot camp Windows 7 after resizing Mac partition
Running Lion with Windows 7 boot camped, I modified my Mac OS X partition and reduced its size by 100 GB. I formatted the new 100Gb to FAT 32.
When I restarted my computer, I received the "No ...
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Do I need to install the Boot Camp update in Mac OS X and Windows 7?
I'm running Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition on a 2010 Mac Pro running Lion.
Every so often I'm prompted to download and install the latest update to the Boot Camp software under Windows but this ...
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Installing Windows 8 Preview on a Mac? [closed]
I'm just wondering if anyone has figured this out yet. VMWare throws an ugly "internal monitor error" and there are apparently some graphics driver issues on the 2011 Macbook Pros.
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Problem with boot camp and XNA 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010
I'll try to be as brief as possible with my problem. Do not hesitate to ask for logs or information about my computer and/or the program.
I have a game that consists of a ship that navigates on ...
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Installing Windows 7 on Mac. A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing
I'm installing Windows 7 on my Mac via Parallels. During installation I'm getting. "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing." message. Doesn't give me any option to proceed further. What am ...
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What is the safest way to triple boot Macbook Pro?
I recently purchased a MBP 13.3 i5 system, and I'm keen on making it triple boot (Lion, Win7, Ubuntu 11.04). What is the safest way to do this ? I found quite a few websites online, but I'm not sure ...
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Why can't I download the latest Boot Camp installer when first configuring Boot Camp? [closed]
I have a white Macbook that is released near the end of 2007, with an Intel Core 2 Duo. And now that I want to try installing Windows XP or Windows 7 on it to see how robust it is running Windows, ...
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Problem booting from a DVD: How do I eject the DVD?
I tried to install Windows 7 on Bootcamp, but the Windows 7 boot CD has a boot problem about code 5.
The Windows 7 installation DVD is in the DVD driver. How can I eject the DVD from the drive, and ...
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Is it possible to disable MacBook trackpad under Windows 7?
Is it possible to disable trackpad when running Windows 7 on Macbook Air/Pro? Anyone with this setup can confirm that it's possible?
(I don't use this setup yet, I'm just thinking about it, and want ...
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Windows on an iMac: unable to change keyboard layouts using a keyboard shortcut
I dual boot Windows 7 and MacOS X on my iMac.
Recently I needed to type some text in a non-English keyboard layout in Windows. I installed the second keyboard layout the way I usually do, but when I ...
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Graphics Card on Windows 7 on MBP
I was just wondering was it possible to use the "AMD Radeon HD 6490M " card of MBP on Windows 7 by installing Win7 either on
a) Boot Camp
b) Parallels
c) VmWare
as I like to play games on Win7 for ...
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Bootloader freezes on login screen when booting into Lion from Boot Camp
Every time I reboot from Boot Camp into OS X, the bootloader gets to the login screen, and then after I've entered my username and password, the screen will just go grey. I have to force a restart ...
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How do I clone a dual-boot Macbook
I have a Macbook Air set up for dual-boot (Lion & Windows 7) and am planning on buying a newer model. How would I go about cloning the entire hard drive to the new machine?
Do I need to ...
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Windows 7 bootcamp, DVD does not appear, I need to open it with a key
In Windows 7 bootcamp, DVD does not appear, I need to open it with keyboard, and the Open/Close key on Apple keyboard is not working.
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How to download Bootcamp drivers without Bootcamp assistant?
I'm setting up my MacBook Air for a Windows-only boot setup.
This was easy enough. It already had rEFIt on it, I just connected a Windows 7 boot thumb drive, and away I went.
However, it seems Apple ...
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Will Windows 7 want two license keys if I go Bootcamp + Parallels?
I read that Parallels 6+ can use Bootcamp installations of Windows, and I'd like to go this route. But I've read reports that Windows will detect a major hardware change significant enough to ask for ...
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Macbook Pro (March 2011) - Bootcamp Windows crashes when monitor is plugged in
I have a really annoying issue when plugging in an external monitor into my macbook where the computer just freezes. All screens go black, the apple and keyboard are lit up, even if the lid is closed ...
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Customize the Boot Camp Drive Icon in Lion
A while ago, I remember having customized the Boot Camp drive icon with a pretty simple hack.
It was on Mac OS X Tiger.
And it was that hack.
Now I'm running Lion. Windows 7 is comfy on his Boot ...
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make a bootable DVD from an ISO
Is there an APP to make a bootable dvd i am using snow leopard but i do have access to a lion machine. I have an ISO from a legal copy of windows 7 it is a back up cd and yet i am having a hard time ...
