o i just bought and upgraded to leopard yesterday and i wanted to setup vista with bootcamp so i can play a couple games; however, things didnt go so smoothly.
First of all, when partitioning the drive for the first time (100 gb vista - 365 gb mac) it would not complete because it said it couldnt move all of the files, so i then switched to 32 gb vista after considering i really only need the space for games and nothing else, and just to see if it would even partition correctly. i THOUGHT that it did after seeing an available disk... and then installed vista, skipping the product key and dling my HOME PREMIUM demo to be upgraded through vista once i get it running.. well.. when windows completed installing the files and was "checking my system performance" before startup, it froze completely... i did what i could and restarted my system after hours of no response otherwise... i restarted and everything began to boot, however i was booted straight to windows ( i was initially pretty happy ), but i was a little scared because i had read other people having issues of not being able to startup back into leopard...
i then searched around windows for the boot camp setup screen and there was nothing to be found.. i restarted to see if i was stuck in windows or not, and lo and behold, that friggin window popped up before my white startup screen was even shown... i read that if i started the computer holding c with my leopard upgrade in the drive, it would have to boot from the cd/dvd and id be saved. Nope, still windows.
i then read that i may have to reset my PRAM, so i tried that (holding option, apple, P, & R) and although my computer never began to "restart 4 times" like the instructions explained would happen, it didnt restart at all and just booted to leopard. Needless to say i removed the windows partition the second i could. However i have heard that if done properly this is a very good tool, and i still want to use it. I want to start from scratch but dont want to be stuck in windows without any control over sound (i didnt have ANY sound, not even effects, coming through internal speakers or my apogee duet while in windows), ejecting cd/dvd drive, or switching OS's...
Was the boot camp management application missing in windows because of problems with the bootcamp install, the partition, or the windows install?? or even that i was using the "upgrade" disk instead of the clean install initially? any help would be ouuuutstanding thanks! - Cody C
PS i have since changed and locked my startup disk as mac osx so hopefully this same issue wouldnt happen again even if an unsuccessful install from windows... Right? HOW DID I SCREW UP SO BAD THE FIRST TIME???!!!
First of all, when partitioning the drive for the first time (100 gb vista - 365 gb mac) it would not complete because it said it couldnt move all of the files, so i then switched to 32 gb vista after considering i really only need the space for games and nothing else, and just to see if it would even partition correctly. i THOUGHT that it did after seeing an available disk... and then installed vista, skipping the product key and dling my HOME PREMIUM demo to be upgraded through vista once i get it running.. well.. when windows completed installing the files and was "checking my system performance" before startup, it froze completely... i did what i could and restarted my system after hours of no response otherwise... i restarted and everything began to boot, however i was booted straight to windows ( i was initially pretty happy ), but i was a little scared because i had read other people having issues of not being able to startup back into leopard...
i then searched around windows for the boot camp setup screen and there was nothing to be found.. i restarted to see if i was stuck in windows or not, and lo and behold, that friggin window popped up before my white startup screen was even shown... i read that if i started the computer holding c with my leopard upgrade in the drive, it would have to boot from the cd/dvd and id be saved. Nope, still windows.
i then read that i may have to reset my PRAM, so i tried that (holding option, apple, P, & R) and although my computer never began to "restart 4 times" like the instructions explained would happen, it didnt restart at all and just booted to leopard. Needless to say i removed the windows partition the second i could. However i have heard that if done properly this is a very good tool, and i still want to use it. I want to start from scratch but dont want to be stuck in windows without any control over sound (i didnt have ANY sound, not even effects, coming through internal speakers or my apogee duet while in windows), ejecting cd/dvd drive, or switching OS's...
Was the boot camp management application missing in windows because of problems with the bootcamp install, the partition, or the windows install?? or even that i was using the "upgrade" disk instead of the clean install initially? any help would be ouuuutstanding thanks! - Cody C
PS i have since changed and locked my startup disk as mac osx so hopefully this same issue wouldnt happen again even if an unsuccessful install from windows... Right? HOW DID I SCREW UP SO BAD THE FIRST TIME???!!!