Dear Apple Boot camp,
Im still not sure what I did wrong, but it ended up in windows writing it's partition OVER my OSX partition. This resulted, of course, in a complete loss of data. 8 months of pictures, music, movies, projects...gone.
I had to learn the hard way, didnt I? My "Apple Smug Rating" was slowly on the rise, perhaps fueled by George Clooneys uber-smug academic awards acceptance speech. I thus believed myself invisible to problemia computeria, and oh how I have fallen.
here is what i did:
closed all programs.
flashed the firmware to latest update (1.something)
I burned the mac driver disk.
set the partition to: OSX = 230gb XP= 20gb
i then got an error to repair the drive headers.
so I booted into the install disk and repaired the drive.
I tried to set the partition again (with boot camp) to the same specs.
It worked.
I inserted a copy of XP
I clicked "restart"
imac restarts and then boots into the ever familar "windows setup"
i was positivly giddy
it asks me which partition to write to
I picked the only one avaible, the "C:\" partition.
The partition formats and then the install begins.
install fails for no determinable reason.
starts causing a seemily Infinate Loop. (no pun intended)
my only option then is to boot back in OSX.
however when I go to boot into OSX, there IS no OSX. its gone. totally gone.
So, I boot from the OSX install disk, reformatt the entire drive and re-install OSX from scratch.
Project start time: 10:00pm
Project end time: 3:00am
amount of data lost: 150gb
number of CDs used: 5
that sinking feeling you get when you realize all your data is gone: PRICELESS.
All for naught. I was looking foward to Far Cry so, so much.
Maybe I will try this again, but I need to be sure it will work. Therefore I think I want other people to handle the beta and I can wait for the V1.0 release or at least the preview release.
(sigh)
at least I got my hands dirty with the imac. Its been running so damn well for so long, i was getting scared that i was getting too soft. take that, iMac! I'll fight you right now!
later dog.
PS
note to self: buy external backup drive.
note to self: back up nightly.
PPS
if you know a good way to get *.wmv (or any way for that matter) to run on the Intel Imac, please let me know? before the reformat I could play them with windows media player. but now thats been pulled and flip4mac is in its place which sucks cause its not a UB yet. Help!
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Dude...............
Boot Camp BETA>>>>>>>>
A bootable backup is SOP for being cuting edge!
Sorry to hear that man. I helped the Apple rep at CompUSA install Boot Camp and Windows on two MacBook Pros. No problems. When it works, it is very slick.
Without seeing it, I would say when only seeing one partition in the installer was the give away. When we installed on the MacBooks, the Windows installer shows 4 partitions (I believe).
Reading through the Apple Forums shows that a few people have run into this. It seems to me that there is a bug in the diskutil.
You did have the 10.4.6 update installed too?
I would try it again with the fresh install before you get too far with setting the machine up.
I haven't installed it on my iMac yet and I don't know if I will. I don't have any reason to. I don't have any games I need to play.
I did install Parallels and it is damn fast for what I need to do (I use MS Money).
As for wmv --- No good solutions yet. I'll look around to see if I still have the image for the old stand alone WMV player. You never know.
--Rich
Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist
(You know I am official! I passed my exam a while back. I am studying for the Technical Coordinator exam now.)
P.S. I showed your Mom my iMac so that she could see what your dollars were going toward!
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