Bootcamp problem, looking for help.

[Kaenon]

Through the MSDN Academic Alliance, I got a free copy of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit edition with key. I burned the disc off of a PC and it showed up as a .iso on my 2011 21.5" iMac.

I opened up the bootcamp utility and partitioned the hdd to like 35GB and then when prompted to select the install disc, I choose the picture of the Windows 7 CD from the desktop. The super-drive spins and then stops saying, "could not find installation disc."

So I copied the .iso and all files to my iMac and burned a new disc using the super-drive, hoping that would resolve the issue.

Went to bootcamp utility and the same thing happened.

Also tried removing the partition, restarting, recreating the partition and tried the bootcamp utility again.

To no avail, "could not find installation disc."

Help?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

How to burn an .iso or .dmg file to disc

Step 7 and onwards: How To Make Copies of DVDs

 

[Kaenon]

How to burn an .iso or .dmg file to disc

Step 7 and onwards: How To Make Copies of DVDs

That is how I created my .iso and .cdr files...
Still stuck.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

That is how I created my .iso and .cdr files...
Still stuck.

But you have to burn them in order to be able to run the installer from the DVD.
Did you burn the .iso file as file or as image and the resulting DVD had lots of files when viewed via Finder?

Btw, did you use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to burn the downloaded .iso to a DVD when in Windows?

 

[Kaenon]

But you have to burn them in order to be able to run the installer from the DVD.
Did you burn the .iso file as file or as image and the resulting DVD had lots of files when viewed via Finder?

Yes

Btw, did you use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to burn the downloaded .iso to a DVD when in Windows?

I don't know. I know the MSDNAA had be download some sort of downloading client, not sure of the name of it.

See above.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

But you have to burn them in order to be able to run the installer from the DVD.
Did you burn the .iso file as file or as image and the resulting DVD had lots of files when viewed via Finder?

Yes.

Yes to what?

 

[Kaenon]

Yes to what?

Yes to seeing a lot of files when looking at the iso image file in finder.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Yes to seeing a lot of files when looking at the iso image file in finder.

Do you still have access to another computer, where you could try the burned DVD, to see if you can boot from it on that computer? Maybe it is not bootable.

 

[Richdmoore]

It has been a while, but I remember some issue with the iso and 64bit efi on some macs. Here is a link showing how to make an updated iso to fix it.

http://www.ifrankie.com/?p=197