2013 MacBook Air Bootcamp install problems

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2013 MacBook Air Bootcamp install problems

I'm getting the problem of frozen keyboard and mouse as addressed in this support article -

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

Although that procedure gets me past the locked up mouse and keyboard when it comes to formatting the partition I get a new problem "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition".

As soon as I reboot the USB install stick I get back to the frozen keyboard and mouse again and have to spend an hour getting back to the format fail point again. This problem is driving me potty, I have spent a whole day on it. Surely it shouldn't be this hard to put Bootcamp onto Apple's latest MacBook Air.

Posted on Apr 16, 2014 4:05 PM

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turbostar

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Apr 16, 2014 5:40 PM in response to tonydenson

you need to do a few things

dl a fresh w7 ISO from the 1st link below; you will need this in step 6
get a usb2 flash drive, not usb3
open boot camp assistant and delete the windows partition if you haven't already and open disk utility to ensure that you're back to 1 partition on your drive 'macintosh hd' unless you renamed it
restart the machine and do a PRAM reset
open disk utility and repair permissions TWICE
open boot camp assistant and check all 3 boxes, if the process errors out when downloading windows support software, report back

http://techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/

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