Ok so I gave up on the 64 bit windows bc I don't have a pc to burn a copy, now I am trying to use the 32 bit version and it is saying that windows can't be installed on the boot camp partition because it must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS.
MacBook Pro
Format your BootCamp partition as NTFS using the Windows installer
Note this:
You really should read the BCA documentation, one consequence of 'getting this wrong' is a blank computer.
And you do have a current backup I assume.
Format your BootCamp partition as NTFS using the Windows installer
Note this:
You really should read the BCA documentation, one consequence of 'getting this wrong' is a blank computer.
And you do have a current backup I assume.
I am sorry, I am really computer illetriate, and more specifically a Mac virgin, I bought this used laptop and was told just to put in the disc and follow the prompts, but it hasn't been so easy, I appreciate help from people like you who can just whiz through this stuff, thanks for your info, I didn't mean to make you search.
When you say format it using the windows installer can you explain that like you would explain it to an 8 year old, that's about how old I feel when I try to do computer stuff, in fact if I can't figure this out, pretty soon I am going to call my 8 year old nephew and have him do it, it would probably only take him 5 minutes.
I won't explain anything more until you answer the final question from my last post 🙂
Do you have a current backup?
Also, if I have to restart my MacBook if it is in a screen with no options what is the keyboard command for that?
It has been wiped clean, I have all the original disks, I just bought it yesterday used
THIS:
For Snow Leopard (10..6)
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
For Lion (10.7)
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
Installation GuideInstructions for all features and settings.
Boot Camp 4.0 FAQGet answers to commonly asked Boot Camp questions.
Windows 7 FAQAnswers to commonly asked Windows 7 questions.
tricialynn1621 wrote:
It has been wiped clean, I have all the original disks, I just bought it yesterday used
I am not understanding, what is 'wiped clean' your backup? the Mac?
tricialynn1621 wrote:
Also, if I have to restart my MacBook if it is in a screen with no options what is the keyboard command for that?
Tell me exactly what screen this is that has no options?
I don't have any info of my own on there yet, I guess I don't know what a backup is for, I thought it was just to save any of you files in case they get deleted. Do I need to backup even if it is just stuff that is original to the MacBook that I have install disks for?
Like when the screen said select cd rom boot type
You can of course have it be 100% Windows.
When you create a partition, Apple only creates a FAT32 and the guide tells you to look for the "BOOTCAMP" (that is its name, over used) then click Advanced - Options and format as NTFS. Then continue iwth the install.
If you install or reinstall with all the discs - installers have a tendency to throw files all over a partition. And what you need is contiguous consolidated unfragmented free space out of which to create and set aside 50GB or so for Windows 7.
And I would not use 32-bit versions. Unless it only has 2GB and can't go higher.
You can buy Windows System Builder Home Premium 64-bit $99
Windows 8 Customer Preview is a free ISO also (burning ISO has to be done at slowest reduced burn speed in order to work - a bug with Apple Disk Utility.
That means your Mac does not have the proper ROMs and the firmware is an Apple 32-bit EFI. It can be circumvented but one of the bugs using Windows on Macs that came out before Apple made 64-bit firmware, and for all Macs, not just a few.
Backup has two roles on Mac:
To repair the main system, and to restore the system so the free space is unfragmented. In addition to backing up data function.
I have the 64, I bought the $200 windows 7, but the 64 created the original problem where it asked for the select cd rom boot type
okay then, retail verion, which on any PC would not be an issue...
Help me w windows 7 install
