Discussions about boot camp disk

Backup windows side of boot camp? Hi, I'd like to be able to do a system image backup of the windows side of boot camp from within windows that can be restored to a newly created boot camp partition (of the same or larger size). I tried using the windows 7 system image backup and restore... Started by Dan on Friday, November 06, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): I'd like to be able to do a system image backup of the windows side of boot camp from within windows that can be restored to a newly created boot camp partition (of the same or larger size include the EFI boot partition....

Make VirtualBox VM bootable in Boot Camp I currently have Windows 7 installed in VirtualBox on Mac OS X 10.6 and I was wondering if there is any way to make that image bootable via Boot Camp. I already have my disk partitioned. Started by on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): You install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on the Boot Camp partition, then use the Windows Easy.

Boot Camp fails to create a Windows partition because it can't move files I'm running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) on a mac with a 320 GB drive, 167GB free space, and I can't get Boot Camp running. The wizard starts creating the Windows partition, but fails with a message claiming it cannot move some files. The message suggests... Started by Jens Bannmann on Thursday, December 03, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): You there aren't any problems with the drive by repairing in Disk Utility too before the defrag.. Of the windows partition? This costs, but gives you less headache if the disk has problems after that.

Failed to configure the Boot Camp partition's hard disk. Failed to configure the Boot Camp partition's hard disk. Hi, I am running OS 10.6.8. I have had boot camp set up for a couple of months. I have just purchased and downloaded the latest Parallels. In the set up of the Parallels programme, it offers the... Started by CatherineG on Sunday, February 12, 2012, 5 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at parallels Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at parallels): Rename old Boot Camp configuration file. Try to re-create Boot Camp configuration file.

XP on Boot Camp Crashes Our XP install on Boot Camp / Leopard is crashing a lot. We have no idea why. Does anyone have any suggestions? More detail: It's a MacBook pro a few months old. The crashes are usually blue screens. After the crash XP does the disk check so it takes ... Started by Marcus Leon on Friday, May 22, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Updating the EFI so that you can install and boot from Windows (and it has drivers specific for the Mac.

Boot camp with Vista crashes on startup I have a 2006 vintage MacBook Pro (Intel Core 2 Duo) and have been using Boot Camp since it was in beta. I had been running XP SP2 on it with Tiger quite happily. I've recently wiped and reinstalled everything to upgrade to Leopard. After installing Leopard... Started by Mark Pim on Thursday, July 23, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): I think XP and Vista both reboot automatically by default when to a black screen and you hear the apple honk :) Auto reboot has been disabled, boot logging on, etc. You may be getting a BSOD on boot.

Boot Camp: is it possible to restart directly to Windows from Mac OS X? With the Boot Camp tools installed on Windows, there's an option for rebooting directly to Mac OS ("Restart in Mac OS X" from Boot Camp system tray item). But is this possible in the opposite direction? In other words, instead of the procedure 1) "Restart... Started by Jonik on Saturday, September 05, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): It replaces the normal OSX .... REFIt is a boot manager that will allow you to select which OS to boot at startup, and also has some very handy extra features. There is no way to this with only BootCamp installed as it is controlled by OSX .

Create a shared FAT32 partition on Boot Camp MacBook I have a MacBook set up with Boot Camp, and the XP partition is NTFS. The split is 50-50 and there is no unallocated space on the hard drive. I want to create a shared 50GB FAT32 partition for my DropBox files, so regardless of which OS I boot into, I... Started by tomfanning on Saturday, October 10, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Disk utility in OSX can dynamically. It's easier, safer and faster. Save you the need to repartition.

Getting 3d acceleration working in Windows 7 64bit on Mac Boot Camp? I've installed the Windows 7 RC 64-bit edition under boot camp, but I'm have zero luck getting the 3D acceleration working. I've installed all the Mac drivers (including the 64bit Nvidia ones on the OSX install cd), I've also run the windows update and... Started by James McMahon on Monday, July 20, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): On my MacBook Pro unibody 2009, I get life in the 4-5 hours range with the NVidia driver Apple supplies with Snow Leopard Boot Camp 3.0 NVidia OEM compatiblie.... Use the drivers from Boot Camp 3.0 on the Snow Leopard disk.

Visual Studio Development on Virtual Box, Boot Camp, or VMWare Fusion I currently have a Mac, 2ghz and 2 gigs of ram, running OS X Leopard and Virtual Box with a Windows 7 Pro 32bit virtual machine. Performance on the virtual machine is fine for minor tasks but is very clunky while trying to multi-task or develop in Visual... Started by Eli on Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): IMO it's a much better solution for doing .... It's a breeze, and with coherence mode it's very unobtrusive . I use Parallels to develop in Windows 7 with .NET on my Macbook Pro with 4GB of RAM, and I haven't experienced any significant performance issues .