ISO 9660

Hello Richard,

1) Why do you talk about buying Boot Camp ? It's installed with the first Apple Install DVD …

2) About buying Windows Software, I think you should first try to work with torrents managing Macintosh Applications, I don't know if I have the right to tell it, by :
— a) Searching them (Microsoft Windows Software torrents) with LimeWire, Frostwire, Vuze, XTorrent etc., I'm sure forget there 3 or 4 more ;
— b) Expanding them (ISOs) on your Mac, with these apllications and also Transmission, then burn the choosen ISO to a bootable DVD (with Roxio's Toast Titanium, for example), and then install with Boot Camp.

Warning : I don't know if Windows 7 can be installed in a FAT 32 partition. I've been told that it wanted NTFS. So I use Windows XP Pro SP3 (Corporate or not) on a 32 Go partition of my internal (it's impossible to install Windows with Boot Camp elsewhere) disk. Notice that with FAT 32 you can read, write etc. in the Windows partition.

You can then have for big and any PC stuff an NTFS formatted external device. I believe that, with FAT 32, the size of the blocks has to be less than 4 GB, see the following (Hitachi Source) :

"Only FAT32 format is supported by both Mac and PC. The drive comes pre-formated as FAT32, but if you have changed its format you can reformat it back to FAT32 as described below.
FAT32 has only a few limitations. Those limitations include the following: All individual files must be smaller than 4GB in size to be able to be copied to this drive, and all file names must follow the Windows naming convention. That is, you can only use the letters and characters that are acceptable when creating Windows files. Apple/Mac allow for some extra characters when creating file names but these extra characters in the file names will not work with FAT32.
All data on the external hard drive will be destroyed if you follow these instructions. If you wish to keep the information that is currently on the external hard drive, you will need to copy the contents of the external hard drive to another location before proceeding."

I can copy for you all what they say (about NTFS for example).

Remember that, with Boot Camp, it's Windows that will format either FAT or NTFS space.
Download on Apple Site the Boot Camp User's Guide (PDF) and read it with attention.

I hope I have helped you ?

Kind regards

Olivier Herrbach

They need to buy Windows, and threw Boot Camp in there...

Warning : I don't know if Windows 7 can be installed in a FAT 32 partition.

So why are you offering this??

Yes Windows Vista and 7 use NTFS. Mac OS can read, and with a driver can also write to NTFS.

FAT is limnited to FILES of 4GB.

Hi Richard,

it's me again. Perhaps this will be of any interest for you :

Here's what I found last night : * http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm*

"PowerISO for OSX -- This is a free utility for Mac OSX which can extract, list, and convert image files (including ISO, BIN, DAA, and other formats). Type " poweriso -? " for detailed usage information. File Size: 243KB Download Now"

You only have to place the ISO at the same place as PowerISO (Unix Executable File), and all files in the ISO (which is an uncompressed image) will appear.

Unfortunately, I can't succeed, after burning 5 DVDs with those files, to obtain a Windows 7 Installation Disk that Boot Camp should recognize.

Please tell me if you have ANY info about how I must do,
which ISO 9660 options I have to choose, etc.

Hoping what's at the beginning will help you.

Kind regards,

Olivier Herrbach