Author Topic: boot camp help (Read 5662 times)

loganbyers07 · « **on:** July 12, 2008, 10:20:52 AM »

I am having a problem partiitoning my hard drive with boot camp. I get this message

Any Ideas?

noah03ark · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2008, 10:43:35 AM »

you're running the older tiger of OSX

tiger can be complain-ey, and often will not allow resizing of the boot drive, while leopard will (at any time too, even in disk utility)

robin1989 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2008, 10:56:13 AM »

yeh my friend had that problem the only solution we found was to put the install disk in and choose repair disk, repair permissions, verify disk and that worked for him and another friend it happened to we only got it to work by reformanting it as mac os journaled

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2008, 11:13:58 AM »

Quote from: robin1989 on July 12, 2008, 10:56:13 AM

yeh my friend had that problem the only solution we found was to put the install disk in and choose repair disk, repair permissions, verify disk and that worked for him and another friend it happened to we only got it to work by reformanting it as mac os journaled

I already booted off of my macbook and did that to my Mac Hd And it still does not work.

Quote from: noah03ark on July 12, 2008, 10:43:35 AM

you're running the older tiger of OSX

tiger can be complain-ey, and often will not allow resizing of the boot drive, while leopard will (at any time too, even in disk utility)

would you recomend I upgrade to leapord?

noah03ark · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2008, 11:18:37 AM »

i would certainly reccomend an upgrade

i have it, and boot camp with it is sooo much simpler becasue its built in and not beta

plus the featrures! oh! the features!

robin1989 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2008, 01:21:34 PM »

yeah upgrade to leopard or snow leopard if you can as leopard is amazing - snow isn't released yet

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 12, 2008, 06:18:59 PM »

Okay Well I took your advice and I am now Running Leapord

I paid 129.99 at bestbuy for it.

So I instaled it and i am on it now and I ran bootcamp and partitioned the hard drive and tried to install vista. The install was "sucessful" but it wont boot.

Can bootcamp run vista ultimate? I am thinking about just installing XP pro.

noah03ark · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2008, 06:31:30 PM »

yes, i could've used ultimate, but, too much bloatware, so i put on home premium

did you do the boot thingy?
w/ the vista CD in the drive, turn on your computer while holding option, your mac should boot into a screen where your mac HD icon and another HD labled windows comes up, hit the right arrow to select windows, and hit enter and it should boot to that partition,
from there install windows on the partition labeled bootcamp after partitioning it...vista should install.... then later after its installed and you're at the desktop, take your leopard CD and put it in to install the drivers

install
restart
and go to apple.com to update bootcamp to 2.1 (unless your leopard cd instals 2.1)

if that was not detailed enough i can elaborate more

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2008, 07:51:29 PM »

yea i did all of those steps up to where you said go to your vista desktop ( i couldnt get to my vista desktop) it gave me a bunch of errors on a black screen

noah03ark · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2008, 07:55:58 PM »

hmmm

what kind of mac do you have?

also, in the mean time, what migh help too is chekcing out apple discussions

go to apple.com
support
hit discussions
hit 'apple+f' to bring up the find function of safari, and type boot camp, and it should automatically take ou to where it says boot camp
click boot camp
find a topic where one might have a similar problem

that might help, in the mean time, i have to ponder...

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2008, 08:04:27 PM »

Okay thanks. I also have a sort of off topic question. I have a macbook ( the machine I just installed Leapord On) and my warranty is out on it but on the front I have 2 chips in the case on the very front where it has chipped off from just regular use. How much would apple charge to fix this and is there a possibility of them doing it for free because this is such a common problem with a macbook?

noah03ark · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2008, 08:10:36 PM »

$600

i'm not joking

any 'user damage' is not covered at all, even w/ apple care

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2008, 08:32:11 PM »

I had read somewhere that people had gone to apple stores and just asked them to fix it and they did but if they are going to charge me $600 then they need to be giving me a new macbook. I am thinking about just selling this and getting a macbook pro. Do you think it would be worth it?

noah03ark · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2008, 08:41:12 PM »

i have a macbook pro and it is AMAAAAAZIIIININNNNNGGNGNNNGGNGGGGGGGGGGG

i love this thing

but then again, you just bought leopard for 120$, so since you just spent so much, squeeze the last out of your macbook, sell it in a few months, and get a macbook pro

you'll still get a good bundle for your macbook, as macs retain their value well

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 12, 2008, 09:01:25 PM »

Yea I paid 750 for it in October And it is still worth 750. Lol

robin1989 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 12, 2008, 10:36:12 PM »

can you tell us what the errors actually say

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2008, 07:42:53 AM »

yea i will get a couple of screen shots it is a couple of pages full of errors

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2008, 10:58:41 AM »

Okay so I fixed It

EVERYTHING works including bluetooth and finger scrolling. My only problem now is that on startup it is giving me an error that lasts about 3 min that says it needs to be fixed with a fdisk tool.

but Windows vista runs okay even with these specs

Core Duo 2ghz
1 gb of ram
80 gb hd
Leapord and Vista

I am extremely happy that it is working correctly.
Even the sound function keys the brigthness key and the eject key work.

MattZani · « **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2008, 11:06:22 AM »

Can anyone tell me the option key? Im guessing its CMD? but im not certain.

noah03ark · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2008, 11:24:09 AM »

Quote from: MattZani on July 14, 2008, 11:06:22 AM

Can anyone tell me the option key? Im guessing its CMD? but im not certain.

its next to command (apple, whcih i think they took off the new ones...)

mine says option on the bottom in large letters

and alt on the top in smaller letters.

as for vista, good to hear it works! yes, i have the think w/ the fdisk error crap as well :/

robin1989 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 14, 2008, 11:48:48 AM »

yeh alt is the options button

loganbyers07 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 14, 2008, 11:51:17 AM »

I am installing the creative suite now. If that stupid fdisk error would go away I would have like a 12 second bootup instead it is like 2 min 12 sec lol

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