Apple Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP or Vista on an Intel-based Mac, and once installation is complete, users can restart their computer to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP or Vista. Boot Camp will be a feature in 'Leopard', Apple's next major release of Mac OS X, that will be. When running Windows, locate the Boot Camp folder on the USB media you created in Step 3 and double click to open it. Double click on setup to start installing the Boot Camp Support Software. When prompted to allow changes, click on Yes and follow the onscreen instructions. Installation can take a few minutes. Don't interrupt the installation. Create USB installer with Boot Camp Assistant After downloading the ISO file, you'll need to use Boot Camp Assistant to move it to a bootable USB drive. Insert a USB flash drive to your Mac. Download Apple Boot Camp for Mac free. Apple Boot Camp For users running Windows XP, Vista SP2, or 7.
My iMac's HD died last week, and so I was unable to access OS X (I had a Time Machine backup of it though). Fortunately I was able to boot into the Recovery HD and use Disk Utility to backup Boot Camp to a DMG file on an external drive before I lost that forever. So, now I have a DMG file containing Windows 7.
Apple Boot Camp Editor's Review
Apple Boot Camp allows you to use multiple operating systems on a Intel-based Macintosh.This product has been designed in order to give you the possibility to install Microsoft Windows on your Macintosh, by using a multiple boot configuration. This version works with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.
Besides these operating systems, Boot Camp can also handle a Linux installation, so its Boot Managing capabilities are quite good. Installing a Linux isn't supported by the application that you can find into this package, so if you would like to use a Linux distribution on your Mac, you need to read some How-Tos.
The distribution package of Boot Camp provides you the documentation and an installation package. The installation package places an application called Boot Camp Assistant into your /Applications/Utilities
directory. It also adds a new Preference pane into the System Preferences. The Boot Camp Assistant has just a few but important features. This is the application that can start the Windows installer, repartition your HDD, it can burn a Mac Windows Drivers disk, or it can restore the startup disk to a single volume.
The Mac Windows Drivers disk is important after you finish the installation. It provides drivers for Mac-specific devices like: graphics interface, networking, soundboard, wireless networking (AirPort), bluetooth, the brightness control for the built in displays (MacBook, Mac Book Pro and iMac), and it also installs the Apple Keyboard support on Windows, including the 'Eject' key.
If you want to restart into the other OS, then you have multiple choices. Either you can select the system you want to boot from the Preference pane that the package installs into the System Preferences, or you can simply hold down the Option(Alt) key when the system starts up. A graphical boot menu appears so you can chose which OS your Mac should load.
Pluses: it gives you the possibility to install multiple operating systems on your Macintosh.
Drawbacks / flaws: this is still an immature project labeled as 'Beta', so it's highly recommended that you should not use this on production machines, unless you really know what you are doing and you are aware of the consequences.
In conclusion: this is one of those tools that makes useless the owning of a regular PC if you already have a Intel-based Macintosh. version reviewed: 1.2 BETA
NOTE: THIS UTILITY SHOULD NO LONGER BE NEEDED DUE TO APPLE UPDATING BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT TO USE EXFAT. WE HAVE LEFT THIS ARTICLE AND THE DOWNLOAD FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES. IT IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.
In the last few months, people installing Windows on their Macs with Boot Camp Assistant havestartedseeingthe message “An Error occurred while copying the Windows installation files” when using some Windows 10 ISO downloaded from Microsoft. I have seen it a lot since I do testing with ISO of Windows Enterprise downloaded from Microsoft that have been showing this problem. It didn’t seem to happen with all ISO so I investigated the issue, filed a bug with Apple, and figured out a workaround to the problem.
The Cause
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When Windows 10 is installed with Boot Camp Assistant, Boot Camp Assistant prepares the disk for installation. To do this, it does the following operations:
- Download the Windows Support software from Apple for the current Mac.
- Creates 2 partitions, one where Windows will be installed (“BOOTCAMP”) and one where the installer files will reside (“OSXRESERVED”). Both are formatted as FAT32.
- Copies all the files from the ISO that was specified at the start of the process by the user to the OSXRESERVED partition. This is where the error happens.
- Copies the files from the WindowsSupport to the OSXRESERVED partition. These files provide both the drivers needed when installing and the drivers that are installed post-install.
- Sets the boot disk to the OSXRESERVED partition and reboots.
Windows boots from the OSXRESERVED and shows the available editions of Windows from the install.wim file in the support folder on OSXRESERVED. This is a large file (usually around 4 GB). The install.wim contains all of the files for a vanilla copy of Windows 10, and is the largest file in the installer ISO.
So here is where the problem resides: FAT32 cannot handle files greater than 4 GB. Each new version of Windows increases the size of this file, and ISOs that contain more editions of Windows can be larger than other ISOs that contain less editions.
In step 3 above, the error message “An Error occurred while copying the Windows installation files” is shown because Boot Camp assistant cannot copy the install.wim to a FAT32 filesystem. This file is required, so the whole process aborts.
To make matters even worse, the disk in the Mac is left in a state where it is difficult to revert back to a single partition. The OSXRESERVED partition is hidden and unmounted, and Boot Camp Assistant cannot restore a disk that has multiple FAT32 partitions.
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The Solution
To resolve this issue, both FAT32 partitions need to be removed from the disk and a new ISO must be created where no single file is larger than 4GB. We have created a free utility called “Boot Camp ISO Converted” that copies all the files in the ISO to a folder, splits up the install.wim into parts no larger than 2GB, and creates a new ISO that can be used with Boot Camp Assistant. Here is a step-by-step instructions:
Removing the installer partitions
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- Make sure you have a good backup of all files on the disk that could be lost, including all the Mac files. Repartitioning could fail due to drive errors, so having a good backup is important.
- Open Disk Utility, select the startup disk, and click the partition button.
- Select the OSXRESERVED partition and click the “-” button to remove the partition.
- Select the BOOTCAMP partition and click the “-” button to remove the partition.
- Click Apply to start the partition removal process.
Splitting the ISO
- Download Boot Camp ISO Converter (https://twocanoes-software-updates.s3.amazonaws.com/Boot%20Camp%20ISO%20Converter1_6.dmg) and install.
- Open Boot Camp ISO Converter and select the ISO that caused the error.
- Click Save… and specify a name and location for the new ISO.
- After the operation is completed, the new ISO can be used to install Windows with Boot Camp assistant following the standard process.
Boot Camp ISO Converter
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Boot Camp ISO Converter uses a command like tool called “wimsplit” to split the wim into parts no larger than 2GB. The WIM format supports split files and when installing Windows, the Windows installer recognizes the split files as treats them as a single large file as long as all the split files are in the same folder. If you look in the sources folder on the new ISO, you will see multiple install.swm files with a number appended on the end.
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