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Boot camp restart gets stuck on apple logo/prohibited logo/? folder help

Hello,

I'm currently running OS X (lion) and I'm trying to install windows 7 via boot camp assistant. After creating a Win7 install disk via a bootable USB flash drive and creating my partition via the assistant. The computer restarts and goes into the load screen instead of the windows install process. It then flips between the Apple logo, Prohibited logo, and ? file not found folder. Could some one help me out and let me know whats going on. Thanks in advance! (I would try to install it via CD/DVD but the drive doesn't work.)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 2007 Macbook Pro

Posted on Dec 28, 2012 11:09 PM

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User profile for user: mende1
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Posted on Dec 28, 2012 11:53 PM

With Snow Leopard, it was possible, but it looks like Lion or Mountain Lion uses a different software that doesn't allow the Windows installation from an USB drive on Macs with SuperDrive. That is the only way to install Windows with Boot Camp, so if you do not want, you can use Parallels, VMware Fusion or VirtualBox and install Windows on a virtual machine

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Dec 28, 2012 11:53 PM in response to rx71004

With Snow Leopard, it was possible, but it looks like Lion or Mountain Lion uses a different software that doesn't allow the Windows installation from an USB drive on Macs with SuperDrive. That is the only way to install Windows with Boot Camp, so if you do not want, you can use Parallels, VMware Fusion or VirtualBox and install Windows on a virtual machine

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Dec 28, 2012 11:12 PM in response to rx71004

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities


First of all, you can't install Windows from an USB drive on a Mac with the SuperDrive. To start on OS X, press Option key while the Mac is starting and select Macintosh HD. Finally, open Boot Camp Assistant to delete the Boot Camp volume and take the Mac to an Apple Store to get the SuperDrive repaired

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