![]() The ISO file had been downloaded onto a USB hard drive that had two partitions: an HFS+ partition and a FAT-32 partition. So after hard-restarting the Mini, we got the ISO file and a 16GB USB stick and proceeded to try it the other way. I even tried my friend's Windows 7 disc that he had brought, which was the same version, but it also failed. However the computer just showed a green screen with the text saying basically, "No bootable volume found."Īt this point I don't know why it would not boot up from the Windows 7 disc that was in the DVD-RAM drive, since that disc worked fine on my Mac Pro for creating the Boot Camp partition, and evidently it is OK with installing from a USB stick. Next I inserted the Windows 7 disk into the external DVD drive, and pressed Continue to restart the Mac and install Windows. I burned the Apple drivers to CD using an external USB LaCie DVD-RAM drive. The partition itself was successfully created on the internal hard drive of the Mac Mini. ![]() So, I unchecked Option (1) and used Boot Camp Assistant to create a new partition on the internal drive, on which to install Windows 7. Since I have an external LaCie DVD-RAM drive, I figured that I should just install Windows the old fashioned way - from the DVD. The Boot Camp Assistant will offer to create this image on supported computers.Īpple's website does not say that you MUST install from a USB drive and not a DVD, and the Boot Camp Assistant screen does not say you can't either. Install Windows with an installation disc you provide or, on Mac computers that do not have an optical drive, with a USB flash drive that contains a Windows 7 ISO image downloaded from Microsoft.Support for the Windows 7 ISO installer.Option (1) is new to Lion as mentioned by Apple here: On the Mac Mini the Boot Camp Assistant gives you three options: (1) Create a bootable USB volume, (2) Download and burn the Apple drivers to CD/DVD, and (3) Install Windows on your Boot Camp Partition. I wanted to create a Boot Camp parition, so I started Boot Camp Assistant. I have a friend's brand new Mac Mini 2011 with 10.7.1. (In my case the disk image was on an external drive that Boot Camp Assistant reformated due to this bug.) On Macs that do not have internal optical drives (Mac Mini or MacBook Air), the Boot Camp Assistant 4.0.1 can potentially reformat the wrong external storage device in a case where the user has multiple external volumes, when creating the Windows Installer from a Windows 7. This is a notification to users of a bug in Mac OS X Lion.
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