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How to boot from a burned windows cd?

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Ithilir

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May 10, 2008
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Hi,

I've just bought my first apple product ever. It's.. so... beautiful. I've always been a windows user so there are a lot of confusing features I have to learn, but one thing I wanted to try is running dual operating systems.

I don't have my windows installation disks anywhere nearby but I do have the license keys, so I downloaded an OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY LEGIT* copy from the interwebz.

From what I understood from reading various instructions all I have to do is burn the iso to a dvd and insert it when prompted. I used the pre installed Boot Camp software to create a partition and download some drivers.

I restarted my computer and it didn't boot up from the windows cd, instead it booted from my new (and empty) partition which resulted in a "No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key"

How can I choose to boot from the cd?

* It's not

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Specs:
i7 2,7 GHz
4GB DDR3
Intel HD 3000 graphics
13"
OS X 10.7.1
 
You Understood Wrong

Ithilir said:
Hi,

I've just bought my first apple product ever. It's.. so... beautiful. I've always been a windows user so there are a lot of confusing features I have to learn, but one thing I wanted to try is running dual operating systems.

I don't have my windows installation disks anywhere nearby but I do have the license keys, so I downloaded an OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY LEGIT* copy from the interwebz.

From what I understood from reading various instructions all I have to do is burn the iso to a dvd and insert it when prompted. I used the pre installed Boot Camp software to create a partition and download some drivers.

I restarted my computer and it didn't boot up from the windows cd, instead it booted from my new (and empty) partition which resulted in a "No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key"

How can I choose to boot from the cd?

* It's not

------
Specs:
i7 2,7 GHz
4GB DDR3
Intel HD 3000 graphics
13"
OS X 10.7.1
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The options on the MS site are: Download, and download with Backup DVD.

You chose the former. Can't burn a bootable copy from there. You are going to have to pay the extra $ to get the physical DVD I'm afraid.
 
You hold down the OPTION key right after the startup sound chimes to select all connected and inserted bootable devices/media you want to boot from.
Have you burnt the DVD correctly - meaning you didn't just burnt the .iso as a file onto the DVD, but used Burn or something similar to make a copy of the .iso file's contents onto the DVD?

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Macman45 said:
The options on the MS site are: Download, and download with Backup DVD.

You chose the former. Can't burn a bootable copy from there. You are going to have to pay the extra $ to get the physical DVD I'm afraid.
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One can use this to burn a DVD inside Windows at least: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
 
simsaladimbamba said:
You hold down the OPTION key right after the startup sound chimes to select all connected and inserted bootable devices/media you want to boot from.
Have you burnt the DVD correctly - meaning you didn't just burnt the .iso as a file onto the DVD, but used Burn or something similar to make a copy of the .iso file's contents onto the DVD?
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Wait, there is a difference? I'm pretty sure I just burned the ISO itself onto a dvd. Should I open the ISO and burn the contents from it? And I figured out how to switch bootable devices from startup, otherwise I would still be stuck with that black screen error unable to boot OS X. It didn't show the dvd at all, just my Mac HD and the new partition.
 
Only As A backup

simsaladimbamba said:
You hold down the OPTION key right after the startup sound chimes to select all connected and inserted bootable devices/media you want to boot from.
Have you burnt the DVD correctly - meaning you didn't just burnt the .iso as a file onto the DVD, but used Burn or something similar to make a copy of the .iso file's contents onto the DVD?

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One can use this to burn a DVD inside Windows at least: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
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And for an installation that already exists.
 
iisforiphone said:
ahh thats what you did incorrectly, should work when you burn the ISO using the proper method
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So: Download Burn -> Open my ISO file in finder -> Copy the contents to the dvd -> Burn?

Just making sure I'm not wasting another dvd
 
Ithilir said:
Yes, yes I did.

I'm not used to burning ISO files, in windows I just used Deamon Tools to mount it like a CD :)
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Do you still have access to Windows and a DVD burner? If so, check the link I provided in my first post.

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Ithilir said:
So: Download Burn -> Open my ISO file in finder -> Copy the contents to the dvd -> Burn?

Just making sure I'm not wasting another dvd
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No, either use the Windows method already hinted at or use Burn.

Here are also some search results on "how to burn iso to DVD in mac os x": http://www.google.com/search?q=burn....,cf.osb&fp=5b3846bb372396b3&biw=1863&bih=847
 
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download the iso and burn with disk utility in applications/utilities
this will write the image to disk as it should be and be bootable

not as a data disk with just the iso file on it
:)
 
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