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URGENT HELP NEEDED - Boot Camp Setup

Hello All


I know this is in the wrong forum but I am not getting any help in the Boot Camp one.

I have a 2009 27inch Core2Duo 8gb ram iMac. The hard drive is a brand new 3TB with a fresh install of 10.8.3. I want to install Windows 7 64bit.

I set up some basic settings and have a backup at the ready. When I open Boot Camp Assisant and click Continue to the second screen i get this:


User uploaded file


There is only one partition formatted as Extended Journaled with 10.8.3 on it.

I have tried booting into recovery mode and repairing the disk. I also have done permissions and repair disk from safe mode.


What could be the issue here? I have no idea what to do and I REALLY need this to work ASAP.



Thanks in advance,

xeni

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Apr 10, 2013 1:34 AM

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Apr 11, 2013 3:11 PM in response to Csound1

Woah alright buddy. Geez. It seems strange that I come to a forum that is intended to be helpful yet some members refuse to help. Hmmm...

There are many other people on this forum and most of them are helpful, so I will ask someone else, thanks.

I would have thought it simple for you to guide me to a very similar thread where you contributed.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4890611

Apr 11, 2013 3:45 PM in response to XENiCraft

That thread is not about your issue, if it was I would have given you the same reply.


I am not trying to be awkward, or unhelpful but if you run into the same issues with BC and a fusion drive as many others have I will feel duty bound to solve it, and I can't. Rather than leave you with an unusable Mac I suggested that you wait.


If you can't wait I would suggest that you use a VM (temporarily) until the situation is clear.


I apologize for dissapointing you but the alternative may have you returning your Mac to Apple for drive replacement.

Apr 11, 2013 4:40 PM in response to Csound1

OK sorry my reply above was a little rash.


I do not have a fusion drive just a standard spinning 3tb. I am setting up my mac from scratch so I can get everything running smoothly with the new hard drive so I am setting up Boot Camp at the beginning so I can restore quite quickly if something goes wrong.


The drive seems to be fine. I have successfully followed the thread that I linked and gotten the Boot Camp 5.0.0 installer from a previous backup and it partitions the drive and launches the Windows Install disc successfully. But then when I click on the Boot Camp partition (the fourth one on the list with EFI, Main install and Recovery before it) and click format as per Apple's instructions. It does the format but does not allow me to continue as it says it can't install to a GPT partition. So I read somewhere that an EFI Boot would do it so I restarted the Mac holding option and saw 4 options, Mac OS X, Recovery, Windows and EFI Boot so I tabbed over to that and pressed enter to get... nothing. Nothing changed and it just sits there so I have restarted the Mac and deleted the partition with Boot Camp Assistant and then retried to get the same results. Do you have any other ideas apart from a VM?

Apr 11, 2013 5:38 PM in response to XENiCraft

XENiCraft wrote:


OK sorry my reply above was a little rash.


I do not have a fusion drive just a standard spinning 3tb. I am setting up my mac from scratch so I can get everything running smoothly with the new hard drive so I am setting up Boot Camp at the beginning so I can restore quite quickly if something goes wrong.


The drive seems to be fine. I have successfully followed the thread that I linked and gotten the Boot Camp 5.0.0 installer from a previous backup and it partitions the drive and launches the Windows Install disc successfully. But then when I click on the Boot Camp partition (the fourth one on the list with EFI, Main install and Recovery before it) and click format as per Apple's instructions. It does the format but does not allow me to continue as it says it can't install to a GPT partition. So I read somewhere that an EFI Boot would do it so I restarted the Mac holding option and saw 4 options, Mac OS X, Recovery, Windows and EFI Boot so I tabbed over to that and pressed enter to get... nothing. Nothing changed and it just sits there so I have restarted the Mac and deleted the partition with Boot Camp Assistant and then retried to get the same results. Do you have any other ideas apart from a VM?

No problem and no I do not have other ideas yet, some users managed to get through this stage but Windows still failed to install, and in some cases the BC space could not be recovered, hence back to Apple. I would not do anything without a complete and current backup, and I think that I would wait for Apple to pronounce on this (better yet, fix it).


There is one poster here who may know how to deal with this, he is not here today but I will leave a message for him to look in here when he next logs in.


Best I can do for now 🙂


(He will insist that you have a current clone of your drive to restore in case of disaster, you might as well make one now)

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