Bootcamp Assistant Problem

Just to be sure before I speculate further, did you clicked in the "custom" or "advanced" install option rather than the "upgrade" one?

Hope this helps...

yes i did, it seems it doesn't load the controller driver...

dricciardi wrote:
yes i did, it seems it doesn't load the controller driver...

Ok, that's wierd, so you can't see any target HDDs, specifically the one labeled "BOOTCAMP" for installation?, right? I think you should call Apple and tell them about the problem. Now one last question, how big is your Bootcamp Partition?, maybe the installer is disregarding the partition because is to small (I highly doubt this).

However, you can do another step in order to try and solve the problem. What you can do is to eliminate your Bootcamp partition and restore the OSX partition into a single volume. You can do this by doing the following steps, remember to _*BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH ANY KIND OF HDD PARTITIONING PROCCESS, THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!*:_

*Eliminating Bootcamp Partition:*
1. Go to your OSX utilities folder.
2. Select BootCamp Assistant.
3. Once the assistant opens, click the "continue" button.
4. After that you'll be greeted by the "download support software screen"
5. Select the option that states that you have downloaded the required support software already, then click "continue".
6. A new screen will appear, and will ask you to either "Start the Windows installer" or "create or eliminate Bootcamp Partion", click the "create or eliminate Bootcamp partition"
7. After clicking that option a new screen will appear, click the "restore" button, then you'll be promted to type your username's password click "OK".
8. Once the proccess is finished, close the assistant and reboot your Mac. (Although this is not a required step, it can help you to aviod partition problems in the future.)

Then after your computer boots back, recreate another bootcamp partition as you did before. But before you eliminate your partition I suggest to call AppleCare because your computer is new, their number is (800) 275-2273.

Good Luck!

Did you hear back from Apple yet? I'm also stuck on the same problem with Boot Camp.

thank you a lot. At the end the problem was the Windows DVD corrupted. I downloaded a new image from MSDN and with the new one the installation ended correctly, then i updated bootcamp and eindows updates and everything worked fine

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The latest Boot Camp drivers can be found here:

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/24/57/061-8885/cjpXxFZXm9wSdDtWWg8ND69V CvwjrjGTS4/BootCampESD.pkg

Download and install the package; then extract the Windows Support files located in System/Library/Application Support/Boot Camp to a FAT32-formatted USB disk or DVD.

I've installed Windows 7x64 Ultimate SP1 on a MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2010 and these drivers work just fine. Be sure to update the Cirrus Logic Audio and NVidia drivers from the appropriate support pages of their web sites. I also installed Boot Camp Update V3.20 subsequently, since the latest version of the trackpad drivers and Control Panel are included (simply select "Repair" when running the update).

Here, they explain the situation:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3648

(source: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com ).

I've been having the this issue too, running Boot Camp 3.0.4, and Software Update does not find 3.1 or 3.2 automatically, and the only downloads I can find on apple.com are .exe files for windows (64 bit).

Here is my story ... I want to install Windows 7 on my new MacBook Pro (OS X 10.6.6), I go into Boot Camp Assistant (3.0.4), it tells me to download the Windows support program. I download the Windows support program, and it tells me to burn it to a CD/DVD or save to an external hard drive. And then I insert a blank CD, and it won't burn the Windows Support program stuff it just downloaded, tried again with a blank DVD, and a third time with a different blank CD. Clicking on Burn does nothing, nothing that should be spinning does, it just sits there. So then I try to install the Windows support program onto an external harddrive, I made sure it was formatted to MS-DOS (FAT), and it again would not copy it. Tried it will three different external drives, and it wouldn't install it on any of them.

SOLUTION: I called Apple, and they said that this is a known problem.

The support person I talked to said that instead of clicking the option to "Download the Windows support software for this Mac", which started the whole fun problem, to instead select "I have already downloaded the Windows support software" (even though I haven't yet). He said that once I select that, it will allow me to go and create a partition, then I can install Windows from the Windows install CD that I have, and then, after windows is installed, I use the Mac OS X install CD that I have to load the drivers so that Windows will recognize everything.

Apparently the Windows support program (that won't burn onto a disk or a hard drive) isn't necessary if you have your OS X install CD handy.

I am about to try this, so fingers crossed this is the fix to the problem we all seem to be having. I will post if I needed to do other steps too.

Shannon87,

Let me tell you I had the same problem as you last night and Apple Tech told me the same thing. I did exactly as they said and you posted and it worked perfectly! Apparently the problem is that if the apple server does not have the drivers for your Mac it just will not download and you run into the same issue everyone has been having. Key is just skipping the driver download, partitioning the drive, and installing windows.

Once you have windows running, use the Mac OS X install DVD and open the folder called boot camp and execute the .exe. after that let it works its magic, it will install a bunch of drivers and have you will have windows 7 up and running with all the drivers installed...

Good luck people.

I sure hope this issue is resolved soon.

But here's another problem. On my brand new i7 iMac, you don't GET an option to say you have already downloaded the Windows Support settings. So the workaround doesn'r work. The only option are to download the support to DVD (which, like all the rest of you I can't do) or to a windows external drive, which i dont have. Banjaxed! Come on Apple!

The guy at tech support suggested reinstalling bootcamp, which he said was an optional install on the OS system disc, but no, bootcamp is not there under applications. So I can't reinstall it. Does that means I have to reinstall the whole system??

Any ideas?

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The latest Boot Camp drivers can be found here:

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/24/57/061-8885/cjpXxFZXm9wSdDtWWg8ND69V CvwjrjGTS4/BootCampESD.pkg

Download and install the package; then extract the Windows Support files located in System/Library/Application Support/Boot Camp to a FAT32-formatted USB disk or DVD.

I've installed Windows 7x64 Ultimate SP1 on a MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2010 and these drivers work just fine. Be sure to update the Cirrus Logic Audio and NVidia drivers from the appropriate support pages of their web sites. I also installed Boot Camp Update V3.20 subsequently, since the latest version of the trackpad drivers and Control Panel are included (simply select "Repair" when running the update).

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Sorry to nit-pick...but the directory is not the /System/Library... but the ROOT Library...
/Library/Applciation Support/Boot Camp/...

I am a very reluctant member of the increasingly well attended (it seems) Renegade Boot Camp Assistant 3.0.4 Club and have tried pretty much all the workarounds suggested in this very helpful string with, unfortunately, no success. I have spent a couple of hours with a very sympathetic and senior Apple Care engineer, who was unable to help. He took me through the "copying BCA windows files onto a USB stick" routine which also regrettably did not work. Curiously the system wrote three files to my USB stick in addition to the Drivers folder and the "Unattended" file. When I delted them there was a distinct click sound that came from the stick. Since then it has not worked. A separate laptop running in Windows 7 is unable to recognise the stick at all let alone read what is on it!

The first attempt to load Windows 7 was in fact partially successful (after working around the black screen by deleting the rogue ATI file) and all my iMAc i/o devices worked fine. However, following a re-boot into OS X and a boot back into Windows 7 (I haven't installed Parallels yet) they no longer worked. Somehow the windows drivers had been disabled. I made a number of subsequent attempts to load Windows but each time I tried I was somehow further from the goal. In other words the installation stalled at an earlier stage as if the attempts themselves were putting further obstacles in my way.

One workaround I have not been able to try is to partition under Boot Camp Assistant 3.0.2 (which some in this string have found useful) because I have not been able to locate a copy of it. Is anyone able to tell me where I can find a copy?

Many thanks in advance for your help and regards.

Oliver

I would like to respectfully add a comment and one solution to this thread:

Comment:
The reason they should support it is because the documentation says it is supported and thousands of people, including myself, are buying/using XP disks to install XP programs because XP was the closest thing to a stable product that Microsoft ever released, and if you want to use the older (IMO better) XP versions of Microsoft Excel seriously, e.g., financial analyses and academic modeling, you are best doing this natively. Apple cancels the support, and then doesn't update its own manuals?! ***? While you can run older Excel versions on Windows 7, personally I prefer XP to Microsoft's new software.

Solution:
After 3 weeks attempting the boot camp installation of windows XP, I finally found a useful solution (in an archived post) for fellow MacBook Air (MBA) users which I would like to share. Boot camp/Windows XP has a problem--again, Not in the Apple documentation--interacting with the external drive that you need to install XP. It generates an error indicating a missing ASMS file. It won't let you go any further in the installation. Your disk is likely Not bad, the installation disk can't find the drive. The solution to this is overwrite that text, and stipulate manually the drive. You should type in either "D:\i386", or "E:\i386". If those don't work try C:\, E:\, etc. You will know when you have it right because your drive will start spinning. You will need to do this manually (use control-C and control-V) about 20 times to walk the install through the rest of its process. This gave me a full working version of XP on my MBA as of tonight.

To the problem that the new version of Boot Camp will not allow me to install the XP drivers, I do not yet have a solution. Any/all help is very welcome.

Best wishes to all.

I am trying to install Windows 7 on my early 08 Mac Pro... Everything is up to date, I am on 10.6.6... I go to install via boot camp assistant. I created a partition just fine...

Then it asks if I want to download the support software, and it gives me an error when I try to save it to a hard drive or disk..I read that you can just use your leopard DVD to install that software so I skipped that step.

I then go to start the installation with my Windows 7 disk in the drive and it boots my machine to start the installation but nothing happens...There is nothing on my monitor.

Any ideas? I read that the latest version of bootcamp supports windows 7... I have 3.0.4 and when I go to software update there is no updates available.

Thanks.