Installing Win 7 on Boot Camp won't install to the hard drive

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Installing Win 7 on Boot Camp won't install to the hard drive

Hey, I'm installing Windows 7 64-BIT onto my Mac,
Steps I've taken, logged onto an administrator account, ran boot camp assistant, selected Hard Drive 2 (1TB, practically empty it is not my Mac OSX Boot Drive), selected "create second partition for windows", gave it 131GB clicked partition, I saw the BOOTCAMP hard drive show up on my desktop now.

I inserted the Win764BIT dvd I made, BootCamp prompted for it, I clicked OK...
It restarts, windows 7 setup loads, I get to the point where I selected the Boot Camp hard drive, and click Format, it finishes, I click Next, and it says:
Windows is unable to install to the selected location: error 0x80300024, the partition I am installing to is: Disk 1: Partition 3 (although there is, Disk 0, and 2 other unknown partitions of 128MB for Disk 0, and then Disk 1 Partition 3, and 2 other unknown partitions of 128MB for Disk 1.

EDIT: I did rename the ISO file I downloaded from: "7100.0.090421-1700 x64fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culxfrer_endvd.iso" to "win764.iso".

Can anyone help me with this?

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Message was edited by: Steelbom

Mac Pro early 2008, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 23i screen, 8-core 3.0GHz processor, 10GB ram

Posted on Jun 1, 2009 3:15 AM

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The hatter

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Jun 1, 2009 5:26 AM in response to Steelbom

Remove your OS X drive before you boot from Windows DVD is all. So you need to shutdown at that point.

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Jun 1, 2009 4:00 PM in response to The hatter

Hi, what exactly do you mean remove it? physically take it out???
Why do I have to do that?

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The hatter

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Jun 1, 2009 5:06 PM in response to Steelbom

Because Windows sees there is a GPT disk.

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Jun 1, 2009 5:17 PM in response to The hatter

Woohoo fun, hdd is sitting on my bench,
the windows drive is in bay 2, it doesn't boot from the disc
Though, it just has the selection cursor flashing
On screen

What's wrong?

EDIT: I held option key, and had option to choose:
Windows or boot from EFI, I chose windows because I
Didn't know what the other was

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The hatter

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Jun 1, 2009 5:34 PM in response to Steelbom

There should be a selection screen, and try #2. I think that is called EFI Boot. I can't, because of EFI32 1.1, and 64-bit Windows and Apple are looking for UEFI 2.x / EFI64.

I had Windows Vista, and installed Windows 7 to another hard drive partition with the DVD written to disk (8GB) on another partition. Install off hard drive was fast, and never even boot from DVD.

For people with trouble with the boot selection:
http://sergiomcfly.blogspot.com/2008/04/select-cd-rom-boot-type-when-installing. html

I tried to put together a 'journal/faq' of my own experience with 7100, which isn't perfect but has some tips and links.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1866970&tstart=0

About GPT -
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT-on-x64.mspx

If you really get stuck on the boot selector, this may help:
http://jowie.com/blog/post/2008/02/24/Select-CD-ROM-Boot-Type-prompt-while-tryin g-to-boot-from-Vista-x64-DVD-burnt-from-iso-file.aspx

but you really shouldn't need that, your 2008 Mac Pro should do fine.

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Jun 1, 2009 8:40 PM in response to The hatter

Hey, thanks a lot, I've got it working, removing the hdd made it work great =)

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The hatter

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Jun 2, 2009 4:04 AM in response to Steelbom

See, that wasn't so hard .... 😉

I stumbled on it more out of caution the first time, back in '06 (pre-release of Vista).

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Aug 21, 2009 6:55 AM in response to The hatter

hatter,

I've encountered the same problem when attempting to install windows 7 on my first generation mac pro, but after removing my other drives my computer keeps trying to eject the disc when its booting up. I'm pretty sure that its a good DVD burn of windows 7 because it worked before removing the drives, and I've tested it on another machine.

Have you ever heard of anyone else having this problem?

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