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Windows 8 does not restart in Boot Camp

I installed Windows 7 in Boot Camp under Mountain Lion, then upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from within Windows on the Boot Camp partition. Initially I had tried to do a clean install of Windows 8 but received an error message that the version of Windows 8 I had was not designed for a clean install. In any case, Windows 8 worked fine - until I shut it off and tried to restart. After disabling sleep or any type of shutdown in OS X 8.2, I tried starting Windows 8 once more and was able to do so. However, after an normal restart following downloading updates, I get only a blue screen when attempting to start Windows 8. Additionally, Windows 8 will not start from a Windows 8 Install disk (which Boot Camp can recognize and use as the start disk). Have others had this problem? What have you done?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Nov 8, 2012 4:27 PM

18 replies

ShlomiL

Level 3

774 points

Nov 10, 2012 9:20 PM in response to connect2europe

Indeed the version number is listed as 4.0 and not 5.0, however Mountain Lion clerly listed as relevant and this is the latest and main Boot Camp documentation.

Also the following document list similar information and listed as Mountain Lion related:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1461

As well both of the documents were modified during November...

Nov 10, 2012 10:01 PM in response to ShlomiL

This does seem to be the definitive post. Wish it had turned up when I did the search - could have saved a lot of time.

However, I do think it was an important discovery that having external HDs attached prevented Windows 7 (and possibly Windows 8) from rebooting. I suspected a control war for the HDs between the two systems because I've experienced it with Parallels 7. Sometimes it has been almost impossible to get a peripheral to be owned by the system in which I needed it. In any case, I was able to get an inexpensive first day issue of a Windows 8 Upgrade that I'll probably use in due course.

And this was an interesting introduction to the forums. thanks for your help!

pcm327

Level 1

4 points

Nov 27, 2012 7:43 PM in response to connect2europe

so sunday i was able to get win8 32bit running... partitioned the drive ~60 gig for windows, then loaded xp sp2 updated to sp3 (2 hours of updates restarts etc... using drivers from my gray OS Cd ) then i was able to upgrade from INSIDE xp to win8 installd bootcamp (the drivers you download from osx bootcamp). it seemed to run ok...... booted, and rebooted several times however it was only using 3 of my 12 gigs of ram ( i understand that is a limitation of the 32bit os the other 9 were seen just not used ). it did crash several time while playing a gaame but from what i saw online that was probably an issue with the RAM not the OS

deleted that now im attempting to go for a 64bit install ..... wish me luck Ill post back later and i'll tell you how it went...

2011 imac 27" i7

Windows 8 does not restart in Boot Camp