Q: MacBookPro Late 2008, Windows7 stuck at startup
Hi everyone
I have been trying to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro Late 2008.
I have tried everything with BootCamp and it doesn't work.
I ended up creating a partition manually and format it in NTSF, copied the installation files on this new partition, booted the installation and it goes fine.
My problem is when I try to enter again into Windows, it just gives an error and prompt a GRub command line
Any suggestion on how to fix this?
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 29185/255/63 [468862128 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 310888728] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 311298368 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 312567904 - 156032040] HPFS/QNX/AUX
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=240057409536; sectorsize=512; blocks=468862128
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 468862127
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 310888728 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
311298368 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
312567904 156032040 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
468599944 262151
468862095 32 Sec GPT table
468862127 1 Sec GPT header
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on May 17, 2016 10:20 AM
The standard method works as noted in Install Windows 7 and earlier on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support . If you copy installation files to the partition, it is repeating the installation cycle, which will never complete.
Posted on May 17, 2016 8:45 PM