Q: Bootcamp problems
Mac Pro (early 2008) with four internal disks so can run Mountain Lion, El Capitan (just added yesterday) and Windows (7x64). Each system has dedicated disk, no partitions. Also use VWware Fusion (vs 6.04) so I can run Windows under virtual machine through Mountain Lion.
Everything was running fine until yesterday when I installed the fourth disk and then installed El Capitan on it. That installation went fine, but now I cannot run Windows in either native or virtual machine mode. In Native Mode Bootcamp does not recognize that the Windows disk exists. In virtual mode, Windows tries to install, but fails with error messages: Startup failed VMware-Virtual IDE HD, from which I conclude that it can find the disk, but cannot connect to the operating system on it.
When I load my Windows 7x64 startup disks and attempt to do maintenance on the Windows system, I get the message that the maintenance package on the disk is not compatible with the version of Windows I am attempting to repair.
I know that I can clean the Windows disk and start over with Bootcamp and a new install on Windows. However, I will lose the program files on that disk and I need them. At this time I have no way to access the Windows disk. What am I missing?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
OR Gramps - Rex K
Posted on Aug 17, 2016 8:10 PM

