Tag Archives: Bootcamp

BootCamp – Imaging windows with winclone

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Using a lab windows image on a dual boot mac — Prepare a base windows image in Dell hardware and sysprep Take an image with KACE/Ghost but don’t allow drive to boot after With ghost you need to uncheck “Reboot” … Continue reading →

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Bootcamp – Setting boot volume from windows command line

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Sometimes it is necessary to set the boot volume via the command line. # “c:\Program Files\Boot Camp\BootCamp.exe” -StartupDisk “Windows” (Replace “Windows” with “Macintosh HD” to boot to the Mac side …) See this reference from Apple … http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3802

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Mac – Unmounting Windows (or any other) volume at startup

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

To umount a Macintosh volume at start-up (for example the windows bootcamp volume) you can create a startup item … In: /Library/StartupItems Create a directory “Unmount”  in that directory you want to put 2 files: Unmount and StartupParameters.plist   Unmount … Continue reading →

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Bootcamp – Stop Bootcamp Help window popup

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

On a windows install using bootcamp on the Mac, users will see an annoying bootcamp help dialog box which isn’t really helpful at all to them. Lab users have no permissions to do anything with bootcamp so showing them this … Continue reading →

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Mac – DeployStudio and windows volume

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

When creating a workflow for taking a DeployStudio image of a windows NTFS volume — it is important to uncheck the box for use “mac tools for multicast” which then allows you to check the box for “try to shrink … Continue reading →

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Bootcamp – Hiding Mac volume from Windows

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

Reports are that since Bootcamp version 3 or so you can now read and write to the macintosh partition from your windows environment. This is less than ideal in a shared computer lab. Renaming the file: c:\windows\system32\drivers\applemnt.sys and then restarting … Continue reading →

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