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Boot Camp Lion upgrade problem

I've just upgraded to Lion but am now unable to run BootCamp. It doesn't appear in the StartUp options when I restart and hold down the option key. It was all working fine immediately before the uprade.

Disk Utility sees disk0s4, which I believe is my BootCamp partition, but it is greyed out. I've tried Repair Disk but get the message " Invalid BS_impBoot in boot block: ecfcec".

Any ideas?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 24, 2011 4:04 AM

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Aug 6, 2011 3:14 PM in response to bwl11

bwl11,

can you elaborate on what you mean by running the Microsoft support software on the OSX side? Do we have to open something? I first saved the software on to an external hard drive and then transferred it to my Mac desktop. I restarted my Mac and held down the Option key, but nothing changed.

Your help and explantion will be appreciated. Thank you.

Aug 10, 2011 12:44 PM in response to Troy Park

Best thing to do is to set up your hard drive with one partition exclusively for storage, accessable from Mac and Windows. Save everything there and all you got to worry about is reinstalling programs.


Also there are programs for Mac to read NTFS partitions so if you can't boot it at least you can go in a back up the files. There are programs to read Mac partitions from windows too.

Boot Camp Lion upgrade problem

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