Mac Bootcamp 4 Mountain Lion - Installer disc could not be found - Solution

Wireless drivers don’t seem to work for me with either Windows 7 or Windows 8 with the new Retina MBP. Any ideas? I’m using Mountain Lion…

A little question please, How do you create the Windows 7 USB Key ? what do you mean by that ? An usb drive ? how does the bootcamp assistant create a bootable Windows 7 Bootable USB stick ?

Thanks alot for you answer Ben

The problem is i have an older macbook pro (late 2007 / 2008) and i’m afraid it won’t boot from usb sticks. Not even with rEFit installed. Or is there a kind of trick to make the USB boot in older macbook pros ?

Thanks again in advance,

Greetings

Hi Ben, It does show, But when i click on the windows USB stick, It gives me a list of errors (lettres are in yellow) and then i have to reboot.. Is there a special way to do it ? I have the ISO, do i only open the ISO on my mac, and copy the content to the USB drive ? (wich is formated in FAT file system btw)

Thanks again for your answers and help, very much appreciated!

Hey Ben, It doesnt work with me, Because I only have 2 options. Wich are the Download windows support files, and install windows :/ So i guess my hardware is not compatible with that unfortunatly :/ (my bootcamp version is version 5..)

Thanks again alot Ben,

Best Regards

FYI, I just did this and worked great - I used the Windows DVD rather than the USB but it shows up in the same way when you reboot holding down the alt/option key.

thanks!

I have disk problem after instalation. the W7 takes about 37 gb spase on the disk.
what i coud be. it’s clear windowa without any program i shouldn’t takes so mach spase

If you have only 2 options in the boot camp assistant, or if bootcamp doesn’t recognize the windows installer disk when its on a bootable usb, it’s because bootcamp doesn’t recognize your macbook as a model that should install windows from a USB, its actually quite easy to fix, just follow these simple steps:

1. go to Applications>Utilities> right click on boot camp and click Show Package Conents, you’ll find a folder inside called Contents (If i remember correctly, not on my Macbook atm). Inside that folder exists a file called info.plist.
2. Right click on the folder containing the file > get info > change permissions so any user can read & write. Do the same for the file itself (right click > get info…).
3. Right click on info.plist and choose Open with > Text Edit.
4. at the end of the document theres a list of strings that contain different versions of Mac computers, the list is titled something like: “USB boot Versions”, add your Mac’s version to the string list ( MB40 ) if your version is Macbook 4,1 (you can see this by clicking on the System information App in the Utilities folder).
5. save the file and change back the permissions on the file and folder.

Now open boot camp and you should see the option to create a Windows 7 installler on a USB, and also bootcamp will look for a windows installation on any USB’s after you partition the hard drive.

That should get you past the bootcamp assistant phase, assuming your usb is indeed bootable, your mac should partition the disk and boot into the USB and start the installation (for some reason mine doesn’t recognize the USB as bootable but thats another issue)

How come when i reboot i dont see the selection of Windows i only see Mac and Recovery

How do you update your bootcamp to bootcamp 4?

Lior, thanks for your help.
I was struggling with this for 2 days.

I already have created USB key drive containing your Windows 7 installation files using bootcamp and already created a partition, but when I restart the system and hold ALT/Option it only appears the Macintosh HD and the Recovery 10.8. The yellow flash drive icon “Windows” dosent appear at all!!

What could it be???

Thanks

I’m in the same boat as thomasloh and Raeafa. I’ve created the Win 7 USB installer but it does not show up in the list of bootable volumes.

Im also in the same boat, that drive does not show when hitting option on startup, and my computer is not reading the windows installer DVD, its just ejects automatically after it spins for a few seconds. Disc is not damaged, and i cleaned the superdrive before attempting. Have the iso file, but still not working. Help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Pomogite pojalusta… Vo vremya ustanovki windows 7, posle formatirovat razdela najimayu DALEE daet oshibku: “Программе установки не удалось создать новый или найти существующий системный раздел. “

I tried all the steps mentioned, when I trying to install windows, it doesn’t provide the option of choosing which partition? Thanks for your help.

Thanks, Lior!
If you’re adding your hardware string to the Boot Camp Info.plist, make sure your model comes BEFORE the existing later model or it will not work:
MBP51
<string<MBP90

Has anyone got this to work. My computer doesn’t recognize the flash drive I have when I reboot holding the alt key. I did all steps required and still no luck.

Same as above. Tried both USB with updated info file and a dvd as well. I read somewhere that mountain lion does not have the drivers to boot Windows formatted startup disks. Could that be the problem? In that case I would like my money back until it does..

The USB stick with the windows 7 iso isn’t displaying when i hold the option key? What can I do?

Thanks for the response Ben, I’ve looked in and out of bootcamp assistant and haven’t anything in regards of creating a bootable USB stick.

I have access to a Windows computer that I can use a program to create a bootable USB for Win7, would this work?

I would use the DVD but the installer gets stuck on “Windows expanding files 0%).

Any help is appreciated.

Ben, I do have another PC and I used that tool to create a bootable Win7 USB stick and it still didn’t see it when I rebooted.

I also have a brand new iMac, I used the create a bootable Win7 USB stick via bootcamp and my early 08 MacBook still didn’t see the USB drive upon start up.

I even went to the extent of installing refit so I could get a better boot screen and it still doesn’t see it.

I’m at a loss here and I need Windows on this thing for school work. I don’t want to use parallels.

Is there anyway that I can use an external hard drive? Or any other options??

Thanks!

So I did everything exactly and it all was working till i get to the formatting part. I format the partition but then it gives me an error saying

“windows cannot be installed to this disk. The Selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI system, Windows can only be installed on GPT disks

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer’s hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk’d controller is enabled in the computers BIOS menu”

I’m at a loss here.

Thanks a lot for the reply Ben,

Yeah mine says all the exact same things as it does in the screenshot up above “Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table” and everything else.

When I go back to OSX after failing to continue installation after formatting the partition, I check the partition and it is in “Windows NT File System (NTFS)”. I’ve looked around the internet and I cant seem to find an answer. I’ve retried all the steps 5 times with the same outcome. The only thing that’s different is when I go to format the partition, under “Type” mine says “Primary” not “System” like it does in the screen shot above 9not sure if that’s anything, just saying).

Don’t know if it matters but I’m on a 27-inch, Mid 2010 “iMac11,3″ Intel Core i7 1TB running Mountain Lion, and I’m booting Windows 8 off a USB stick.

Again thanks for replying.

im as same as vector

victor*

i have the very same problem of victor

except im on a macbook pro 17″ early 2011

i have a 750gb hdd drive and a 256gb samsung ssd

I’ve got mbp80 (macbook pro 13 early 2011) and this doesn’t work for me.
It seems that the problem is not so easy to solve. Lior’s method does work for the first step: in bootcamp I now can create bootable usb stick. But when I run ‘Install Windows 7′, mac reboots and then doesn’t recognize usb as bootable. Lior’s usb didn’t work either, so as couple of people’s sticks as seen in comments.
On russian site http://goo.gl/F7puL described the same as Lior’s way to install win7 from usb, but in comments TS says that it turns out that you can boot only on mbp 2012 and later, mba 2010 and later and so on. In comments somebody said that refit helped with macbook bro 7,1, but for me it don’t work too.
Any ideas?

With Bootcamp 5.x the steps to get the 3 options available is slightly different than what is listed.

In the DARequiredROMVersions array, add a string at the top that contains your Boot Rom Version that can be found in System Information.

This is mine:
MBP81.0047.B27

Next go to the PreUSBBootSupportedModels array and add a string at the top that has your Model Identifier (also found in system info).

Mind is:
MacBookPro8,1

After adding these two strings and saving Bootcamp no longer told me that I needed an optical drive to install Windows.