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Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Here are some Images I shot along the way…
My installation procedure step by step : https://blogs.msdn.com/hans_vb/archive/2006/06/02/614799.aspx

Figure 1: I'm an idiot, I downloaded the 64 bit version

Figure 2: Install now? YES PLEASE! BTW, at the bottom left of this screen is the repair link I needed to fix the MBR.

 

Figure 3: The patritioning schema should look like this. Of course it's likely you will have different sizes for the Mac and the Windows partitions

 

Figure 4: Don’t panic if you get this after Vista seemingly installed correctly. You just need to reboot from the Vista Install DVD and then select repair (bottom left of the ‘Install Now’ screen).

Figure 5: After that, start playing and discover how Vista makes life better! This is the nice dialog I saw when I plugged in an external screen.

Tags: Apple Boot Camp, Microsoft Windows, Vista

Published Saturday, June 03, 2006 12:51 PM by Hans VB

Comments

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

It's about time the premiere desktop OS from Microsoft was able to detect a new display had been attached.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:23 AM by Lane

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Hans,

Thanks for the "review".  While I'm not a big fan of Vista it's still good to see that we have the dual-boot option on the MBP.

Matt
Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:33 AM by Matt

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

That's really simple and straightforward. I can imagine Microsoft has made Vista so idiot-proof, and nothing more needs to be done... erm, perhaps not so true to certain extend.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:34 AM by Keith

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Great, downloading now, will surely give it a try as WinXP is so 20th century.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:36 AM by SilverMac

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:48 AM by Installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro at HeHo Weblog

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Regarding Figure 4: I got that screen... restarted the machine and booted from the Vista CD... selected the Recovery option... attempted to Startup Repair... no joy. Vista reported that it could NOT fix the problem, and I still cannot boot into Vista.

So what exactly is it we (I) need to do to make this work under Boot Camp?
Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:11 AM by Clay

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

That's weird. Does your partitioning look similar than the one I had?
Take a look at my post before this one. That's where I documented step by step what I did.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:32 AM by Hans VB

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:43 AM by Blogtacular » Blog Archive » BootCamp: Vista and OS X Dual Booting on MBP

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Nice!  This is good to see.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:44 AM by Lance Fisher

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Hey, did you just put the dvd in? did not have to do anything else?

thanks
groetjes
Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:46 AM by Tim Jacobs

# Technoogle &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Windows Vista Beta 2 available for public download

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:47 AM by Technoogle » Blog Archive » Windows Vista Beta 2 available for public download

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

I wish I only had to put the DVD in! In my other post I explain things step by step: https://blogs.msdn.com/hans_vb/archive/2006/06/02/614799.aspx
Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:58 AM by Hans VB

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:11 AM by BootCamp: Vista and OS X Dual Booting on MBP - The Digg Effect - Search for Diggs or get Dugg

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

If I didnt delete the EFI partition, is there any way to get back to the installer to do so?
Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:31 PM by Ian

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Got the same winload.exe error over here, so I decided to discover the bcdedit.exe tool (more info on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af778.mspx) but it didn't work out very well. So I did what the system told me to do, choose repair from the setup, and it worked like a charm :-). Maybe if I have some time left later this month, I'll write a little piece of "BCD boot loader adventure" stuff on my blog.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:35 PM by Bart

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:48 PM by chrizel blog » Blog Archive » Windows Vista auf iMac *Liveticker*

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Though installing Vista on a Mac is pretty cool, and certainly great news for down the road, I'd just like to point out one little fact  that some people seem to be missing. THIS IS A BETA VERSION OF WINDOWS.

Sorry guys, windows is bad enough as it is. But a BETA version of windows? Not on my system. Especially since from what I've been reading about infighting within microsoft, even most of the Vista design team thinks Vista is a buggy piece of crap. How can you trust something even the designers admit is no where near ready for prime time?

Do yourself a favor. Wait at LEAST until the 1.0 version of Vista version comes out. Before you decide to install something that will almost definately hose your system.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:10 PM by Dan M

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:14 PM by Vista on Bootcamp at teh_bloggerer

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Startup repair doesn't work on my iMac too. Maybe I have to delete the EFI partition. Does MacOS X still boot after that?
Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:35 PM by chrizel

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Hi Dan, I get the feeling you're not a huge Windows fan:-)

It's indeed a beta of Vista than can be loaded on the Mac because of a beta of bootcamp.

The fact that it's dual boot is actually a great way to explore the beta without having to complete dedicate your system to it.

I suggest you try. You might even be surpirsed by the quality of the Vista Beta2 build. Although I don't think we will convert many of the religious people, no matter what we do.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:38 PM by Hans VB

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Hi 'chrizel', yes after deleting the EFI partition the Mac OS still boots. I haven't experienced any difficulties. Good luck.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:48 PM by Hans VB

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:50 PM by Apoctrack » Blog Archive » BootCamp: Vista and OS X Dual Booting on MBP

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Ian, you delete the EFI partition using the XP or Vista installation wizard.

You could also boot from the Apple installation CD and use the Disk Utility to do this.
Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:59 PM by Hans VB

# BootCamp With Vista

Everyone knows that you can install XP on the new Intel Macs now thanks to BootCamp. This guy was able to get Vista to install.Unbelievable, I got Vista running on my MacBook Pro. And it is just beautiful. I know...
Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:11 PM by Forever Geek

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# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Hi Hans,

OK, I see what you did... you deleted the EFI partition. I knew that doing that would work, but it also prevents Boot Camp from being able to manage the Windows partition from then on... and I'd rather not do that.

Thanks for the info...
Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:02 PM by Clay

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Here's a big question, does aero work??  Considering it's like the biggest new feature...
Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:23 PM by Joe

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Anyone get Vista installed on a MacBook 2.0Ghz Black beauty yet?
Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:42 PM by Donovan

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Hi Joe, yes Aero works. Wonderfully well.
Actually the MacBook Pro is in my opinion one of the best machines around to run Vista. That is, in case you buy it with 2GB of RAM and the 256MB graphics card :-)
Friday, June 09, 2006 3:29 AM by Hans VB

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Now there's no questions asked why I shouldn't get a Mac. :D Just one question though, this is like a dual boot for mac and windows, right?
Friday, June 09, 2006 10:43 AM by Dren T. Martin

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Do I ned to have 40gigs for Vista o work? I have 15 now and I get the error from step 4 but cannot repair the volume.
Friday, June 09, 2006 12:22 PM by Gizmo

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Gizmo. If you keep getting the error in picture 4 you probably haven't deleted the EFI partition, or have you?
Friday, June 09, 2006 2:31 PM by Hans VB

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Dren T. Martin, that's exactly what it is. You boot while holding the option key down and then you have the choice to boot Windows or Mac.  
Friday, June 09, 2006 2:31 PM by Hans VB

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

When I go into the installation and try and delete the 199 MB (200 MB) EFI partition nothing happens, I think it may have actually deleted it but the vista installation program still shows it EVEN after a hit Refresh.

Also, I'm royally screwed now, because I back in and tried to fix the startup error, and even with the EFI partition DELETED it STILL says that it can't fix the problem.

Also, the list of drives under recovery options shows 3 23 gig vista partition. so there is an error there, i only made one, and i know what i'm doing.

So the sucky thing is since i deleted the EFI partition when I run BootCamp assistant in Mac OS X it says it can't do anything for me... I can no longer delete the Vista partition and start all over from scratch like I want to do.

Can someone please help me. I use a MacBook (not Pro) 2.0 ghz black with 2 gigs of ram.

"Ian, you delete the EFI partition using the XP or Vista installation wizard.

You could also boot from the Apple installation CD and use the Disk Utility to do this. "
Friday, June 09, 2006 5:37 PM by Bryan Campbell

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

how big is the final installation? I only have a small partition on my MB and dont know if it's enough to hold the new Beta...
Friday, June 09, 2006 9:11 PM by Jamie

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

So does this process still allow you to boot into OS X or just vista?  What does deleting the EFI do to OS X?
Friday, June 09, 2006 9:14 PM by John

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

also, what effect does removing the EFI partition have on Mac OS X?
Friday, June 09, 2006 9:57 PM by Jamie

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

"OK, I see what you did... you deleted the EFI partition. I knew that doing that would work, but it also prevents Boot Camp from being able to manage the Windows partition from then on... and I'd rather not do that. " - Clay

Doing this will prevent me from using Bootcamp's "Restore the startup disk to a single volume" option? If so, what would I have to do to get rid of the Windows partition when I don't need it anymore?
Saturday, June 10, 2006 2:09 AM by THX-2168

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

I've tried this process twice now, exactly following the steps provided, and both times the 'repair' process doesnt' work, and can't repair the install, thus giving me a useless install of Vista AND a hard drive partitioning scheme that is un-fixable.

One question I have is: what exactly is this 'repair' process? Does it need to get out to the internet by chance? I'm using wireless with an AirPort Express and I have both MAC address filtering and WAP2 security enabled; does this Vista repair process need to get out to the internet by chance? Could the WPA security be blocking 'net access, and thus impeding the repair process? Anything will help, as both times this process has failed I've had to completely wipe the drive, reinstall Mac OS X, install Boot Camp, XP, then Vista... I really want to play with Vista but I can't blow too many more afternoons doing this.

Thanks for any help.
Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:48 PM by David Chartier

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

is it true that you are stuck in windows  vista? or can you go back to Mac OS X
Sunday, June 11, 2006 2:29 AM by jitaroo

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

Don't Don't Don't delete the EFI partition after you install Vista. I tried this and it just led to a world of trouble.

For a lesson in what not to do, you can take a look at the post on my site. www.urbandogma.org

Thanks to Hans I'm finally getting off the ground!
Sunday, June 11, 2006 4:19 AM by SpaceCowboy Redux

# Pimp Your MBP With Vista

I know that it has been reported ad nauseam all over the Web but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that you can install Windows Vista beta 2 on the MacBook Pro. (No word yet on if it works...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:52 AM by O'Grady's PowerPage

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

You guys do know that if you delete your EFI partition, then no future Apple firmware updates can be installed!

May want to consider that before you crap your machine up with Windoze Vis-duh.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:54 AM by Macmaniac

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

I cant get the sound to work on my macbook pro. And the Mac Driver CD doesn't work.

Everything else works great.

Is there a file by file download I can get for each of the drivers?
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:43 PM by Toddo

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

I have succesfully installed Vista beta 2 on my Mac Mini dual core + 2 gb ddr.... works great, after having installed the Bootcamp drivers disc (that for a couple of drivers generates an error, but so what) and following the "manual" unpacking instruction for the audio drivers everything works well except for the AERO. When i install the lakeport driver that is packed within Vista the system freezes on next reboot and just disabled the monitor. I had to boor into Vista safe/mode to reinstall the Intel Mobile Chipset before it worked again.

The next thing i miss, is the "startup-disk" option, so that you can select wich OS to boot without holding the ALT key on EVERY reboot, like there was in the windows XP / MAcOS  combination.

Has someone got a work-around for these two problems perhaps?

Thanks in advance!

greets,

Bloeb
Friday, June 16, 2006 7:28 PM by Bloeb

# Grazie a BootCamp Windows va su MacBook!

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:45 AM by raffaeu

# re: Pictures from Installing Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro

very nice blog, congratulations...
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