[classicmacs01]

There is an error in your article. You claim that "Under Lion, Boot Camp supports Windows 7 only." While this is true for Macs shipping with Lion, you left out key information about the hardware. Any Mac with the "Sandy Bridge" motherboard or later, will only run Windows 7, even with Snow Leopard. This would be any late 2010 model Mac, or later. The reason XP/Vista doesn't work on the "Sandy Bridge" models is because there are no XP/Vista drivers, nor will there ever be any XP/Vista drivers for that motherboard, or later. So earlier Macs that can run XP/Vista, should continue to run XP/Vista just fine under Boot Camp after Lion is installed, because the Boot Camp partition is separate from the Lion partition.

[classicmacs01]

 jfkamil, on 13 March 2012 - 07:26 AM, said:

Great article! But I have a quick question, is there any way I can resize the Windows partition after I have installed Windows 7 cause I need more space... Unless the only way is to reinstall bootcamp?

You may be able to increase the size of the partition by using the Boot Camp Assistant. It does non-destructive partitioning. It also gives you the option to delete the partition and return to a single partition.

[jfkamil]

 classicmacs01, on 13 March 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

 jfkamil, on 13 March 2012 - 07:26 AM, said:

Great article! But I have a quick question, is there any way I can resize the Windows partition after I have installed Windows 7 cause I need more space... Unless the only way is to reinstall bootcamp?

You may be able to increase the size of the partition by using the Boot Camp Assistant. It does non-destructive partitioning. It also gives you the option to delete the partition and return to a single partition.

Well, I checked the options and if I proceed with the BootCamp Assistant, it will only restore the partition to one-only (with my Lion installed). Is there any free app or other way I do resize the current Windows partition? I just don't want to start from scratch...

[Fuzzball2k4l]

And so I use a virtual machine, Windows is not to be trusted.

[Fuzzball2k4l]

The customer preview of W8 is kind of cool, to the students it looks like the Xbox 360S interface (if you've been doing your updates). It runs all of my W7 junk, most of which is DirectX9.0 and 32 bit. Even my compiler is Visual Studio Express 2008. Libraries are very funny things.

Right now I run W8 on an AMD-E class processor, it actually runs better than 7 did. None of it runs as well as my mini. There is no substitute for quality.

[henryhbk]

 classicmacs01, on 13 March 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

 jfkamil, on 13 March 2012 - 07:26 AM, said:

Great article! But I have a quick question, is there any way I can resize the Windows partition after I have installed Windows 7 cause I need more space... Unless the only way is to reinstall bootcamp?

You may be able to increase the size of the partition by using the Boot Camp Assistant. It does non-destructive partitioning. It also gives you the option to delete the partition and return to a single partition.

They seem to have removed the ability to soft repartition in lion. This was an awesome feature in days past. I run a separate drive in my Mac pro for win 7 (gaming) and even have a high end windows sound card in for gaming (ignored by the Mac side) and it works great.

[Jottle]

 classicmacs01, on 13 March 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

 jfkamil, on 13 March 2012 - 07:26 AM, said:

Great article! But I have a quick question, is there any way I can resize the Windows partition after I have installed Windows 7 cause I need more space... Unless the only way is to reinstall bootcamp?

You may be able to increase the size of the partition by using the Boot Camp Assistant. It does non-destructive partitioning. It also gives you the option to delete the partition and return to a single partition.

Check out paragon camptune to increase/decreate your bootcamp windows partition. Others have had very good experiences with it. Do a search on the macrumors.com forums for more feedback.

[Chessiecat]

When I try to partition my HD, I get a message "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved" then it says I need to backup my data and reformat the disk for macOS. Reformatting my HD scares me--is this the only way to proceed??

[KeithMKing]

 Chessiecat, on 02 May 2012 - 07:02 AM, said:

When I try to partition my HD, I get a message "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved" then it says I need to backup my data and reformat the disk for macOS. Reformatting my HD scares me--is this the only way to proceed??

Reformatting a drive, hard drive or flash drive, is really easy. I may be leaving out something but it involves running Disk Utility, selecting your target drive, and telling it you want to partition it as one partition. Search the MacWorld or Apple sites (or both) to find the detailed instructions.

[Jottle]

 Chessiecat, on 02 May 2012 - 07:02 AM, said:

When I try to partition my HD, I get a message "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved" then it says I need to backup my data and reformat the disk for macOS. Reformatting my HD scares me--is this the only way to proceed??

Chessie, you don't have to reformat. I got this error as well. It basically means that your hd is just fragmented and needs to be defragged. I know we all think that os x does defragmenting on the fly, but that's just not very effective. Try to find a cheap mac program that defragments your hd. Once you've backed up your data and run the defrag program, you'll find that boot camp assistant will run without errors. The only other cause of this issue is if you're trying to allocate more space to bootcamp than you actually have available.

[jbaquie]

I am running the latest version of Lion and I am trying to upgrade from XP to Windows 7 on a bootcamp partition. When boot camp tries to reboot from the 8gb USB with the ISO I get the 'no bootable disk' error on a black screen when the iMac restarts. I have tried several fixes from forums without success.... any ideas?

[DNovak]

 DVA_Airwolf, on 12 March 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

As far as which WINDOWS to buy for your Mac, just buy 32-Bit Home Premium OEM/Retail versions of any of them (for the majority of Mac users out there) and you should be fine (meaning, you'll have the "least" amount of problems and should go as smoothly as described above). Either XP, Vista or 7.

The 64-bit versions individual manual drivers loaded, and/or hacks, and oodles more time to create and install.

Even MacPro 1,1's can take Windows 7 with a bit of work.

Hi Airwolf,

My question is it seems that it seems that the Windows software which ever is used has to have service pack 2 or 3 in order to run boot camp. I can’t seem to figure out which one has sp2 or 3.....My daughter is going off to college and will need to switch from mac to windows. She is running 10.7.3.

Thank you.

This post has been edited by DNovak: 22 June 2012 - 12:38 PM

[Mittal]

I need help with one thing...
I have a mac mini which has 2.4 GHz intel processor and im currently running on Os X 10.6.8
are these requirements enough to run win7?

[lukew]

Does anyone else's mac lose significant power when they are running windows? Or is it something I did wrong to the computer?