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Bootcamp issues

Hello. I've just put a 750Gb WD Scorpio Black in my MBP running Mountain Lion. I used Carbon Copy Cloner and successfully migrated my system. I then tried to use Bootcamp Assistant to create my Windows partition but I'm away from home for the next 6 weeks and don't have my Win7 disk here and it wouldn't let me create the Bootcamp partition without it. So I used Disk Utility to create a partition, called it Bootcamp and then used Winclone to migrate my old setup image. This has all worked fine except when I use Startup Disk to try to select Windows it doesn't see the Bootcamp partition and Parallels doesn't find it either. It's not really a big problem as I can just reboot/option and select it there but I just wondered if anyone knew if there's an easy fix with a Terminal command, or will I have to start from scratch using Win7 disk and BC assistant to properly make the BC partition when I get home? I don't want to risk the integrity of my Osx setup as I rarely use Windows anyway but I have already tried resizing the windows partition with Camptune to see what would happen but no joy there. Also tried repair with disk utility but again nothing. With Winclone I have tried both leaving BCD alone and then the replace BCD option after the first didn't work. I'm no wizard with Terminal but I do venture in there occaisionally when the need arises and with clear instructions. Any help greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 18, 2013 4:35 PM

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Jan 18, 2013 4:44 PM in response to studleygoodhead

Start again. You can't use Disk Utility to create a Bootcamp partition. Next time, download and pring the Bootcamp installation instructions. It is the first option when you start Bootcamp Assistant.


You should post further Bootcam questions in the Bootcamp forum where the Bootcamp gurus hang out.


https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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