When i open up my bootcamp partition in finder and browse through the files, every file i click on it opens a new finder window.I have tried in options to open like normal file tree's (IE view as list) but for that partition they are all greyed out.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Late 2011 model
I erased my bootcamp partition this morning thinking that was the same as deleting the partition - how do I actually delete the partition and combine it with my MAC OS partition now? I can't do it thru bootcamp
View 4 Replies View RelatedUsed migration assistant to move my Blackbook apps and settings to the Air using a Time Machine backup from my Time Capsule - wirelessly. Two hours later (not terrible) and I'm using my Air with all my apps and setting - fantastic.
Question: My Blackbook also has a Bootcamp partition running Windows - is there a way to take that image and migrate it to my MB Air? I'd rather not have to purchase the Superdrive and re-install/setup the Windows OS on my Air....
I recently made a clone of my Windows XP Pro SP3 installation (its roughly about 14GB according to Finder/WinClone) so i made a 80GB partition on my 320GB drive and it gives me this error message:
the WinClone came from a 500GB internal drive and ive gotten winclone images to restore to a MBP before but not sure why its giving me this error code, anyway to restore the image to the new partition (which was created with Bootcamp) as i no longer have access to the old machine it was running on.
So my iMac came with a 1TB hard drive and I installed Windows 7 x64 but only gave it some 93GB. I have a two-prong question:
Can I add a third partition to my drive after I partition for BootCamp? My main partition ("Macintosh HD" by default) is over 900GB large and I'd really like to cut that up into 2x450GB, for example, in addition to the 93GB BootCamp partition.
Second, once partitioned, is it possible to resize the BootCamp partition to make it bigger after it has been set up?
Is it possible without having to reformat my whole disk aka put osx back on there again?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a 13" MBP with a 250 gb hd, I partitioned the HD 25gb for Windows XP shortly after I bought it. I was unable to install my copy of windows, contacted apple after exhaustive search as to why... Long story short, I now have Vista to install... When I went back to Boot Camp Assistant; partition was gone. Researched... ran disk utility, repaired and erased partition. Bootcamp HD now shows up in desktop, still not in bootcamp assistant. Since I am unable to locate in assistant; would there be any problems with just installing Vista off the install disk by restarting? Any ideas what to do if this is not a good idea (short of restoring)?
View 4 Replies View Relatedcurrently have 2 partitions bootcamp and lion. and have read alot about how if you create said partition it will mess up windows bootcamp. but have yet to see any actual answer as to how to creat the 3rd partition. correct me if wrong but is it better to delete bootcamp creat partition then install bootcamp and restore from system image?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
had a bootcamp partition which I eventually ended up removing again with the bootcamp assistant.Now I want to create the bootcamp partition again, and when I start up the assistant, there is a 5gb leftover partition of the old bootcamp it seems. I just can't resize it... I've tried anything as low as resizing it to 10gb to 100gb... both fails.I have more than 200gb free space.I have just run a full defrag with iDefrag I've tried to do fileoptimization with techtool pro v5
I tried using camptune (which only works if you already have a working bootcamp partition, which I dont.
im on a goal to resize my bootcamp partition... im running 10.6.4 with Win7 in Bootcamp... i made a mistake of only making a 80GB partition for windows 7.... now i want to make it bigger, i have read up on a number of methods but most are outdated and users report issues with windows 7 and SL so i'm a lil stuck... this is my idea
I have 120GB unused HDD space atm so could i.. back up my 80GB partition to a DMG with disk utility then delete the old partition making the whole 200GB unallocated space... then use the bootcamp utility to re occupy the space then use disk utilities restore option to restore the image of the 80GB to the new 200GB partition... would this work? if not has anyone got any other methods to use with 10.6.4 SL and Win7?
Bought an OEM version to use with bootcamp. Everything works fine up to the point where it is supposed to let me format the partition that bootcamp created. The XP installation just skips right from when I select the C:yatta-yatta/bootcamp partition and starts installing. So obviously the partition is not bootable... Does anyone know if this is because the OEM version of the OS or something else. I tried to reduce the size of the partition because I read a thread about FAT32 not playing well with disc sizes greater than 32Gb. Still didn't work...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to try out Windows 7. During this process though I deleted my winXP partition. When I went to create a new BootCamp partition in The BootCamp SetUp Assisstant, it failed to create the partition on my harddrive.
I was greeted with the error, "BootCamp SetUp assistant failed to yada yada yada, please backup and reformat your harddrive."
So my question is do I really have to reinstall Mac OS X? (I backup with TimeMachine so it won't be a big deal but still thats a very long process.) Do you guys have any tips or anything to get Mac OS X to partition my main HDD?
im kind of new to this and i was trying to get bootcamp to run and also the windows partition that runs on bootcamp through vmware fusion. ive installed and uninstalled like 12 times now in 2 days and its driving me nuts. no matter what i do i cant get it to work. maybe someone on here can give me some tips because im lost.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSo i was partitioning my hard drive when this error popped up. "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved." So i followed some recommendations on the board and repaired the permissions using disk utility and then i backed up my Hard Drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. What do i have to do next? it still gives me the same error message,
View 13 Replies View Relatedi have a 500 gb HDD in my laptop, I have a partition for Mac, my Files and one for music, Is it not possible to create another partition for Bootcamp so i can install windows for class?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI wanted to create a Bootcamp partition on my MacBook Pro. However, Windows 7 RC 1 claims to require 20GB of space.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to copy a bootcamp partition from one drive to another. I have tried doing a restore via disk utility, but end up with something non-bootable. I also can no longer boot from the old partition. Putting it into an enclosure causes the boot to fail.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan you make more than one partition on boot camp because I want to try Linux
View 5 Replies View RelatedA while back i decided to get bootcamp up and running on my macbook. that's all and good except i made it a 20gig partition, which is good for practically nothing. i would like to increase it to 50 gigs or so and my computer wont let me do that. So i've decided to go with a back up on a 500GB western Digital Elements and start over new.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI ordered a 1 TB hard drive to upgrade the 500 GB hybrid drive in my MacBook Pro. I have a Bootcamp Partition on the hard drive and was wondering what the best method would be to transfer it to the new hard drive. I have an external hard drive enclosure that I plan to put my Mac's current HDD in to transfer files, and I'll keep it in that to use for storage later. I also have a Time Capsule. What's the best way to transfer my Bootcamp Partition to my new HDD?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Mid 2010 model
I made a partition on my macbook pro (128gb SSD) and I made it a bit too small. I went into disk utility and when I click on the main HD it will not let me resize it by dragging the corner up. I am down to 3gb of Bootcamp space. I could not afford the 256gb SSD so it is what it is.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Bootcamp for windows
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So if I have 10.6 installed and want to install Windows on a Mac, how can I create a 3rd (shared) FAT32 partition without reformatting the hard drive? I know how to without reformatting, but is there any way to just split my current partition into 2? I know how to do this on Windows, that is by shrinking the partition, but is there any similar function on a Mac so I don't lost existing files?
Getting a 10GB Minimum error when trying to do a windows partition, have 20GB free on my 64GB SSD.
View 4 Replies View Relatedis there any way i can have virtual box access my windows OS installed via bootcamp?
View 8 Replies View Relatedi was trying out the app Bootcamp assistant and i set the partition for my mac and the windows 50-50 and then while it was partitioning it got stucked for a very long time so i shut it off and turn it back on. I realized my 300gb of capacity was used up and i only left 9gb. Can someone tell what i'm supposed to do now ? because i don't really know how to fix it and can i bring it to the apple store ? i have applecare.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
If I install windows 7 on a partition with 20GB am i able to access my Mac partition while im in windows? Can i save a file from windows onto my mac partition side? Would it change anything if I was running Parallels or VMWare? I would like to be able to save a file off of a cd while i'm in windows onto my mac side. does this make sense?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAnyone install Windows 7 via bootcamp on the 2010 Air? [URL]. Be interested in hearing your comments, on disc space used, boot times into windows, memory usage, and any other things worth mentioning, does bootcamp allow you to choose the partition size?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI made a Boot camp partition for windows 7 and today I deleted it. Now when I reboot my MBP, if i don't press Option key it will hang and then say No boot device could be found or something along those lines. Everything works fine if I use the Option key and manually select Macintosh HD.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAfter a raid 0 (2 SSDs) .. how do you go about making a partition with bootcamp so you can install windows ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need install windows 7 on my mac (for some windows only programs). I would like to create a partition via bootcamp to run Windows 7 on my mac. I would also like to use that same partition on Parallels 5.
I am looking for a way to LINK the bootcamp partition to Parallels 5 so I can use Windows 7 on parallels when I am need of "light" programs and just boot to Windows 7 when I need more intensive programs. I have NOT installed windows 7 via Bootcamp or Parallels yet.
