Installing Bootcamp on 3 TB hard drive. Disk partition order?

Question

I&#x27;ve had issues installing Windows 7 on my i5 imac from 2011 with Bootcamp.There is currently a 3TB hard drive installed, and I am trying to get Bootcamp to install Windows 7 from a CD.  It will install, but it will never boot Windows afterwards.I tried restoring the drive&#x27;s partitions, and repartitioning based on an article I read so that Windows (BOOTCAMP) would be in the 4th partition.  However, now when I try that (using disk utility) it puts it as &#x27;disk0s6&#x27;.I get these messages about the current setup:/dev/disk0   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk0   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            1.0 TB     disk0s2   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                750.0 GB   disk0s6   5:                  Apple_HFS Mac Data                1.2 TB     disk0s5/dev/disk1   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER   0:                            CD_ROM                 *3.7 GB     disk1/dev/disk2   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *17.4 MB    disk2   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1   2:                  Apple_HFS Flash Player            17.3 MB    disk2s2Can someone help?Thanks

Kappy · Answer

Boot Camp Assistant will only create a valid partition on a disk drive that has no other partition except the one for OS X. Once the Boot Camp partition is created you cannot create additional partitions on that drive. This is clearly spelled out in the Boot Camp Assistant documentation.If you wish to install a Windows partition on a drive with other partitions besides the OS X one, then you need to make use of other boot managers such as The rEFInd Boot Manager or Boot Runner.