Why can't I finish installing W7 under Mavericks?

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Why can't I finish installing W7 under Mavericks?

I am trying to install W7, again, under Mavericks and I cannot do so. Every thing seem to be installed but at start, I get a message that "BOOTMGR is missing, press ctl+alt+delete to restart", but the keyboard (wired and working) will not function so I can do nothing. I have tried more than once. I am trying to install W7 Home Premium and it is a legit disc. I installed the same disc under SN and all was fine.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), mid 2010

Posted on Feb 5, 2014 11:02 AM

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brenden dv

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Feb 7, 2014 1:01 PM in response to calbob84

Hi calbob84,

If you are having a BOOTMGR error message when attempting to install Windows 7 under BootCamp, you may find the following article helpful:

Apple Support: Keyboard/trackpad inoperative, black screen, or alert messages when installing Windows 7

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4599

Regards,

- Brenden

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calbob84 Author

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Apr 4, 2014 1:07 PM in response to brenden dv

Sorry about the long time to reply. I have been away from my computer awhile.

I tried your suggestion some time ago with no success. I thought the latest update to 10.9 would do the trick, but no dice.

If anyone out there has had success installing W7 with Mavericks, I would like to hear from them. Maybe my problem is the age of my iMac, mid 2010. It is interesting that I had W7 on THIS computer, installed under Leopard.

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