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Tips for support technicians booting Windows on Macs with Boot Camp

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mjlaverty@... 8th Oct 2009
I installed Leopard onto a USB HDD (for Firmware updates) and used the format utility that came on the Win7 RC disc to wipe the HDD completely before install. I had some issues (ie: cant eject the disc until Boot Camp drivers are installed, but the disc is stuck in the drive, and I have a non-apple, wireless keyboard...) but i got it all working... Using 64bit no less

I don't know everyway to install Windows, but this is what I did:
1) Get External HDD, large enough for basic OSX install
2) Boot OSX Install media
3) replicate OSX Partition to external drive (time consuming)
4) VERIFY USB DRIVE BOOTS! use option at boot. when desktop comes up, use Apple System Profiler to verify that youre booted via the USB disk. Its also the top drive on the desktop
5) Load up the Bootcamp Util, dont worry about rationed space
6) when you load up into the Win7 Installer, delete all partitions and format as 1.
7) after the install, use the OSX install media for Bootcamp drivers

Thats it.

If you dont want to break your existing Win7 Install, but want to reclaim your disc space, follow steps 1-4 above, then do the following:
1) Open Start > Right-click Computer > Manage
2) select Disk Management
3) delete the Mac Partitions on your physical drive
4) merge free space with existing partition (Win 7 Has this option now)

Thats it.

I make no guarantee that this will work for you. I did the first steps on a Mac Mini with hours of trial and error, but now (with the addition of consumer iR, and soon some Digital Tuner HDTV Action) I have the perfect Media Center PC.
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