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Re: Trying to install Windows Vista 64 bit via Bootcamp, Black screen and white cursor every time mac restarts.

When I start up bootcamp and finish the partition, my mac restarts only for it to show a black screen with a flashing white cursor. I tried restarting the mac to be met with the "No bootable device found - insert boot disk and press any key". Please help, I'm pulling my hiar out over this!!

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 20, 2013 10:55 PM

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Feb 22, 2013 12:45 PM in response to R3XZ

As I mentioned in my first post, not Mt. Lion only supports Windows 7. This means, no Vista isn't supported in Boot Camp, however you can run Vista in virtualization software such as Parallels or VMWare Fusion under Mountain Lion. If you aren't familiar with virtualization software navigate to both websites and read up on it. The performance is excellent and unless you are a serious gamer or plan on running other 3D modeling software virtualizaiton is the way to go!

Feb 22, 2013 1:02 PM in response to R3XZ

It is incorrect to say whether or not Mac OS "supports" a version of windows. Any windows version can be installed on a partition formatted for it. Bootcamp helps you partition and format the drive.


HOWEVER, bootcamp itself is bundled with the *Windows 7* drivers for your hardware - if you were to install any other OS on the now formatted partition, it should install just fine, but you would have to go get drivers for your specific hardware the hard way. Online, one at a time.


If you installed your bootcamp bundled windows 7 drivers onto vista, that is probably what created your problem.
Does that make sense/ help at all?

Feb 23, 2013 12:59 AM in response to R3XZ

Apple - About this mac - more information:
this will display your hardware.

For example: graphics: under graphics/displays it will show the video card (on a new macbook pro right now it is a GeForce GT 650m), which you could then google - and then you would find out it is a NVIDIA card, so you would go to nvidia.com, find their driver page, enter your card model, and download/install the driver (probably from the windows side).
Alternately, in windows, you could right click on "computer" from the start menu, hit "manage," get into "device manager," and click on the "update device driver" option from each device, hoping that windows can find the driver online for you. It's a long, tedius process.


Go buy windows 7 haha.

Unless you really just don't have the cash.


Ex manufacturer driver site:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Re: Trying to install Windows Vista 64 bit via Bootcamp, Black screen and white cursor every time mac restarts.

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