I just picked up a very sweet 15" MacBook Pro for a very good price. I am looking to dual boot Win 7 on it with boot camp. Do 64 and 32 bit versions work equally well? Should I pick one over the other?
View 5 Repliesit would be pretty slick to be able to do that, i guess it isn't possible, but MAN they should get on that.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an early '08 15" model.
I got two sticks of ram of 2 GB a piece and I can't get my MBP to boot with both of them. It will power on but stay at a black screen. However, if I use 1 stick of the new ram along with 1 stick of the original ram the MBP came with, it boots up just fine (3 GB). I've tried swapping out the sticks of ram and have ruled out the possibility that one of the sticks is DOA.
I have a early 08 MBP 2.4 GHz with Windows Vista installed via boot camp. Today I was trying to shut down and instinctively pressed the power button which caused the laptop to hibernate. In order to wake it i had to hold down the power button to do a force shut down. Now I can't reboot into the OS X Partition, it just goes to the white screen with the grey apple logo and then powers down. Booting into windows is fine, except I get a message from Macdrive stating that the OS X Drive was not unmounted properly the last time it was used. If i click check for errors, it doesn't find any and I can read the drive perfectly fine from windows explorer.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI saw this article on either macworld or mac life about installing the OS on a SD card and running it on the new macbook pro's; is there any real benefit to doing this? Is it faster than booting from the hard drive? I was really wanting to get a SSD for my laptop but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a really large capacity one so if I could just install the OS on a SD I could save a lot of money. At least, that's my plan assuming it'd be as fast as a SSD
View 3 Replies View RelatedI erased the free space on my hard drive because it OS X claimed it was full even though it wasn't. I was forced to quit at the end while it was stalled at "Creating temporary file" for 3 hours. I restarted the computer and this was the result:
YouTube - MBP boot attempt
It boots to the login screen, gives me a warning that the hard drive is full, allows me to log in, but then doesn't load any icons, the dock, or the menu bar. Key commands like cmd-shift-Q still work to log out and stuff.it didn't switch from the login image (that graffiti thing) to my desktop background, which is a jungle cat of some sort, but the mouse cursor still works, as you can see in the video.
I've got a user who's Windows XP has a corrupted .dll file that I need to replace, but I cant get Fusion to boot to a dos prompt.
View 5 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how I can get my data off the iBook G4? It won't boot up.
Is there some combination of keys I can use at start-up to get access to the hard-drive?
I installed Windows 7 (64 bit) on my 13.3" Macbook Pro and have a few problems. Hopefully you guys have been able to fix it and can offer some advice.
1) Battery life sucks - 4 hours only....PCMAG (or was it CNET) reported getting approx 6-7 hours.
2) Keys are continuously illuminated even when I reduce it all the way down. Funny thing is if I keep a light over the iSight camera the keyboard illumination goes away.
3) The Macbook is not recognized as a laptop. For example, the screen is supposed to dim. That does not happen.
The main problem right now is #1, I was really hoping to get 6-7 hours in Windows as well as OS X. Even in OS X I am getting 6ish hours (I never really tested it just what I noticed when mousing over). Is there a utility that shows me info about my battery, specifically its health?
I've actually had trouble with this for some time now, but I can no longer ignore it, so I"m hoping for some help.
When I first installed Windows on my Macbook, I did it via Bootcamp.
After successfully installing, I installed Vmware.
Since then, everything has worked flawlessly. However, one thing that disppeared is the Boot Camp setting within System Preferences. Prior to installing VMware, I remember having the option to select my default boot partition as well as the option to boot into Windows. Now that that has disappeared, the only way to reboot into Windows is to manually restart and hold the Option button and manually selecting the partition of interest.
Rather than starting fresh, is there any fix for this?
I'm trying to boot from legacy boot from my new dell 7000 series. however when i change from uefi to legacy i have no boot option. the whole boot list is empty.
i have called dell and the support desk told me dell has no support for legacy :S that means no windows 7 on my dell or any other os that uses non uefi...... i think the bios is corrupt is the whole list is simply missing.
I'm trying to find out if lack of fan control is still an issue on mid-summer unibody macbook pro's in bootcamp with windows vista.
Lots of articles around but none specifically address these new machines.
Anybody with one experiencing a hot vista under bootcamp and having to manually override fan control?
I purchased a used macbook pro 2.6 a couple of weeks ago from ebay and it had a screen problem, IMO> anyway I sent it back and got a refund, I just purchased a NEW 2.66 MHz and I'm expecting it at the end of the week, I was impressed how the first mac booted up so fast with OSX so my question is if I had windows XP dual booting would it boot to the windows as fast as it did with the OSX or will the anti-virus slow it down ?
View 9 Replies View Relatedso im going around to install windows 7 through boot camp, got my blackbook ready, i must know which OS will boot by default if i dont touch anything? or am i doomed to hold the option key or something every time? just started installing snow leopard too
View 10 Replies View RelatedI'm having an issue with Boot Camp. I have a stock base model MBP Alum. Vista was running fine on Boot Camp since I got the machine back in January, but today it crashed. When I tried to reboot into Vista I got two '_' cursor flashes on the top left of the screen then the screen just goes dark. Multiple reboots yielded the same result. Seeing I had my files backed up, I just deleted the Vista partition and tried to perform a reinstall of Vista. However, after I click 'Start Installation' in Boot Camp and the comp restarts - I get the two cursor flashes followed by the black screen again.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI got a new drive and I cloned my other one to it, but now I can't set up boot camp. I get this error. It's partition as OS X extended Journaled, and there is only one partition.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI am having some trouble with my Unibody Macbook. Like a week ago, I began to have issues with my Macbook where after being booted up for a while programs would close and new ones would not open, and I would have to reboot. To me this sounded like a memory issue where there was a bad sector on the memory that was randomly used, which is why there was no pattern to when this problem would show up. It could have started at boot up or after hours of using the computer. It worked like that for a couple of days, and since I decided that it was probably the memory, I would just by 4 gigs of memory to replace these bad ones because I was planning on doing it sooner or later, it just gave me an excuse to do it. Then over the weekend, my mac would no longer boot up. It chimes, and gets to the gray apple boot up screen and then just spins for a while until it turns off. I just put the new 4 gigs in there and that did not fix my problem. Also, for something that it did last week for a couple times, is that when it booted up it would do 3 beeps, which I was told meant a memory issue. I would really like to get this fixed without having to re install the OS or going to the Apple Store.
View 10 Replies View RelatedTook me back to windows spyware days, the program looks so "unapplesque". Im back in leopard. What caused that?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI ended up installing Windows XP twice, once for Parallels, and once for Boot Camp. When I open Parallels now, there are two choices, "Microsoft Windows XP" and "My Boot Camp". When I use "My Boot Camp", it seems just like how it would if I would use Boot Camp normally (ie. having the same files like booting up from Boot Camp). When I use "Microsoft Windows XP", it looks like a fresh install with nothing there.
My question is was I supposed to install Windows XP twice? How do I delete the "Microsoft Windows XP" in Parallels? Will everything I do in Boot Camp be affect like in the "My Boot Camp" in Parallels and vice versa?
I'm planning on installing Windows 7 RC via boot camp when it comes out, but I've lost the Leopard disc needed to install the drivers. Apple's website has Boot Camp Update 2.1 for Windows Vista 32...will this work, in other words, does this have all the drivers needed for the installation?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an Airport Extreme linked to an external hard disk. The HD is formatted in GUID partition scheme and it's split into 3 partitions.
One of the partitions is a Macintosh HD partition with Snow Leopard on it. I can boot into Snow Leopard when the external HD is plugged via USB to my MBP.
But when I plug it into the Airport Extreme, I couldn't find a way to boot from it. Do you know a way?
i installed xp seamlessly on my alu macbook and everything works great ..updated everything ..im a movie lover so i burn my movies and videos accasionally on the windows side and i use convertxtodvd which i love been using it for a long time now..but now everytime i open it up and start to get a movie setup it doesnt last 5 min. till i get a BSOD and the strange thing is that it only happens when i use it.
So am i missing something ..is there a drive missing or am i doing something wrong.. anyone out there experiencing the same problems? i got the 2.4 Ghz alu macbook , bootcamp 2.1
I dont own a mac but and thinking about getting one and i have a few questions. first off im not a fan of OSX so i would like to use win7, so how much will it cost for me to dualboot (cost of dual boot program plus win7 plus any other software i need free or not free)? also i know you can get 5-6hours on OSX (so ive been told, correct me if im wrong) how long of a battery life would i get with win7?
View 10 Replies View Relateddoes it work out of the box on par with other versions of windows?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been noticing whenever I run XP in boot camp I'll get the BSod much more often than running XP on a dedicated Windows machine. For example I got the BSoD the other day while just attempting to save my Word doc. I'll get BSoD for other weird reasons like switching the screen resolutions, closing windows, and opening simple programs. I never had problems like this with my old laptops. For some reason I think Apple is just doing this so users will think Windows OS are more prone to crashes.
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Linux is what's on the drive, but it's not wanting to boot.
I noticed that there were new updates so I went ahead and installed them. On restart, the gray screen came up and just sat there. I shut down and started up a few times and same thing. I restarted and held the option key down and it gave me the OS menu and I'm able to boot Mac OSX from there.
I'm going to try to set the default OS using Boot Camp to see if that fixes the problem.
I have Windows XP installed through boot camp, and it seems the hard drive is acting very very slow. Or basically XP in general. Installations are taking a very long time. It literally took 4 hours to install Modern Warfare 2. In case anyone is wondering I have the 2008 iMac 2.4 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 7200rpm HD. Also in device manager, under SM bus controller there is a yellow question mark, could that be part of the problem?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI just got a new MacBook Pro and installed Windows 7 via Boot Camp. I updated the system completely both in OS X and Windows (so I have Boot Camp 3.1 drivers). Yet, it's pretty much unusable except for surfing the web. If I try to play a video back, it gets extremely hot and as I've found out with Core Temp, it's bumping into the 105 degree Celsius Tjunction temperature limit and throttling. Thus I end up with stuttering video and a pretty useless machine on the Windows side. This is just one activity that does this. Compiling in Visual Studio does the same thing.
Is this typical for Boot Camp or is there something wrong with my machine?
I was thinking of setting up an XP environment on an express card and was wondering if a macbook pro (unibody, 15", last gen) could be configured to give the option to boot from the express card?
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