Bootcamp and OS X Lion

I have not heard of any issues. That said check out the Boot Camp forums.

Yes, mine was completely hosed.

If you have Windows, the partition numbers could change.

Better off to install Lion to an external drive, then clone it over, and the external will be erased, but prove to be very useful for emergency and backups.

Lion tries to add a system restore (Windows 7 has recovery partition) so that changes the number and startup disk at the least.

My bootcamp will not work at all after upgrading to Lion. Apple support says I have to remove the bootcamp partition and reinstall! I'm hoping there is some other way to recover. They said that going back to a time drive version before Lion won't solve the problem either.

Does anyone have any other suggestions besides removing and reinstalling Lion?

Likely they mean you have to remove the bootcamp partition using Boot Camp Assistant, then start BCA again and re-partition BC, then reinstall Windows.

Seems like Apple should have protected it's users a bit more. I should've waited a few weeks for these glaring errors to be fixed in the product before I upgraded to Lion.

Yeah, I don't want to remove bootcamp partition and start from scratch! I really want to know if I can just go back to SL run the W7 repair process and be back up and running that way. I certainly don't have to be on Lion.

I agree, seems like someone dropped the ball on Lion + Bootcamp support!

I'm in Bootcamp assistant in Lion and it's not giving the option to remove the Bootcamp partition.

Boot Recovery mode, use Disk Utility instead, then repair.

While there, you may as well enable hidden features in Disk Utility.

Manage all partitions with Disk Utility in OS X

Check partition table health in Lion's Disk Utility

There is a step where it says something to the effect of restore the OS X partition to full.

They --- something ---- ?

IF you want to remove the Recovery partitoin on the internal drive, that is one thing.

If you want to just remove the Windows parition, that could always be done with Disk Utility and from another boot drive or OS X DVD.

If you want to remove the Windows partition, use Boot Camp Assistant.

1. If you have an existing Boot Camp partition, run the Boot Camp Assistant and select the option to restore your disk to a single Mac OS X volume. When the process completes, click the Restart button and reboot your Macintosh.

I had a number of problems with bootcamp and Lion.

After finally getting Lion on my system I had problems accessing Windows.

I could hold 'Alt' button and see the Windows Drive. When I selected it, the start up began then the system went to re-boot. 'Round and 'round I went. Not even Safe-Mode would get me all the way in.

Now it is fixed.

I had to take my Windoze XP disk and do a repair. (please back up)

**There is a particular way I had to do this, so I didn't lose my data and settings inside Windows.

1. Turned off computer

2. Turned on and got to the Boot Camp screen where I could select which drive I wanted

3. Inserted my XP disk

4. The XP disk becomes a 'selectable' start-up drive

5. Selected the XP disk to start

6. When prompted to 'Repair' or 'Install' - Selected 'INSTALL' - NOT 'Repair'.

7. At the install screen, a search was done to see if Windows XP was already installed

8. When it found that XP was installed, I was given the option to 'install' or 'repair' the one already there - *Now* I selected 'R' to Repair.

I noticed that right away many files began to be deleted. I was very worried. Then, it took about 45 mins - to one hour - to re-install the files.

After a re-start you must enter in your Windows Authenticity Code so be sure you have it! After a another re-boot or two, I was able to open in Windows normally. All of my personal files, documents, programs, and settings were intact and fine.

I had to re-download IE8, Service Pack 3, and another hours worth of updates, since my XP disk only had Service Pack 2 on it.

Overall, I'd say this was the most miserable experience I've had with any sort of Apple update. There were no warnings or instructions or help for the potential problems encountered with Lion. They just 'threw us the lions' and said fend for yourselves!

Of the many, many posts I've read (trying to fix all my *update* issues), it seem that most people with problems, who called support, have reported that support instructed them to wipe the HD and start over! Really?? Thats a solution? You sound like Windows.

I am not an expert so any advice above may destroy your computer. 🙂

Read the above?

I'm in Bootcamp assistant in Lion and it's not giving the option to remove the Bootcamp partition.

When that happens, use Disk Utility, remove partition, then drag HFS to use the full drive capacity.

Follow with Repair Drive.

XP use to get clogged with registry errors and other problems from my own reading, though Windows 7 can and has been running for over 20 months as is.

If people would make backup images and keep them current there would be less of an issue.

If Lion Installer would see Boot Camp is present it really could be smarter and ask what to do, and whether to put Recovery partition elsewhere or on another drive even and not modify the partition table and number.