The installer disc could not be found? MacBook Pro - BootCamp

When asked where to install Windows, did you choose the partition named "Bootcamp"?

If I read your post right, you may be missing some information,

you're only downloading the Boot Camp drivers (Windows support software) so you still need to buy a retail copy of Windows 7 to use to install. Apple does not supply WIndows OS.

After you finish the Boot Camp drivers download, BC Assistant will re-boot the computer and then that's when the Windows installer takes over and will start it's stuff, as in you telling it to Format it NTFS and then it will install Windows onto the partition you made. If you don't have the Windows disk then the computer will ask for an installer disk.🙂 The BCAssistant HAS set the partition (you can pre-format the partition but WIndows HAS to set the final one) and the Windows installer HAS to set the Format.

If you do have the WIndows installer and it is an .iso then it needs to be converted to a bootable version before you burn it to a DVD, you can't just drag the files over to the DVD.

I apologise for responding to an old thread.

Jaygyver, you say that for a user to use boot camp we need a copy of Windows 7, was this introduced this year? I thought we could use a copy of XP to make a windows partition.

It's not so much the Windows OS as it is what Mac OS your using to in stall Windows on.

As of Lion and Mountain Lion (10.7 and 10.8) you can only use Windows 7 (until Windows 8 comes out and Apple updates the Boot Camp drivers for it) because Boot Camp only has drivers for W7 and is not backward compatible to XP.

W7 and XP is kinda like OS-9 and OS-10, two major differences.

Boot Camp is just a series of Windows drivers Apple makes for compatibilities reasons for the hardware Apple uses.

Basically if your computer came with 10.7 installed _brand new_ your stuck with W7 and BCamp v4.0. If you have any other previous Apple OS then you can use the v3.0 version of Boot Camp and W-XP.

Depending on when the computer was made it may be able to use XP, say, if you bought a computer a week after Lion came out but they hadn't upgraded the computer hardware yet you can usually use the previous MacOS and Windows version if compatible. So you will still have the "old" hardware. Any new Mac OS that comes out will be installed on any computers sold after that time.

Also, some people have had some success installing XP on newer machines if you do a Yahoo/Google search on the internet, depending on what machine you have you. It may take quite a bit of work tho. if you really need XP still, Windows 7 Pro does have an XP emulator as part of it (similar to Rosetta for OS9?)

Hope this helps....

Jaygyver wrote:

If you do have the WIndows installer and it is an .iso then it needs to be converted to a bootable version before you burn it to a DVD, you can't just drag the files over to the DVD.

Do you know how to convert the .iso to a bootable version??

You burn the iso to disc (as an image) or you point Bootcamp Assistant to the iso and it will create a USB (if your Mac can boot from a USB).