Hi David Then it seems that Apple has updated Boot Camp as part of Lion which, although it makes sense, I confess I wasn't aware of.
But I'm out of suggestions as I don't run BC here as I consider it a waste of space. To be honest I prefer to run Windows, on the rare occasions where I need to do so, as a virtual machine. I really see no point wasting 40GB and upwards on a partition whose contents I don't often use. But that's just me, perhaps you need Windows more than we do. But if your machine has the hardware to handle it, I would stick with the recommendation I gave you elsewhere before you even bought your Mac. Gordon On 30 Aug 2011, at 23:51, David Griffith wrote: David Griffith [email protected] Checking my version of Boot Camp it says that it is version 4.0. Basically I think I am getting a white screen which lasts for about 2 -3 minutes then the screen goes dark and the boot into Windows begins. Researching this on Google I see that this may be a problem with copies of Windows 7 that are not properly activated. My copy is a legal copy of Windows 7 though. I installed it last week in VM Fusion and everything is now running fine there. As this is crippling the Mac OS Lion start up as well I may have to get rid of the boot camp partition. Are there any other suggestions before I the this drastic step? Regards David Griffith. On 30 Aug 2011, at 15:43, Gordon Smith wrote: > David > > The reason for this is most likely you're running Boot Camp 3 which isn't > really compatible with Lion. You need Boot Camp 4, as I mentioned the other > day on our sister list. > > Gordon > > > On 30 Aug 2011, at 11:51, David Griffith wrote: > > Dear list > > My first posting here. > I managed to install windows 7 on my I-Mac via boot camp yesterday with > sighted help. > However now booting into either Mac or windows Operating system takes an > age. I regret having lost the lovely fast start up time of the Mac. > I cannot see what is happening on the screen as it boots up. I actually > switched back to the Mac by going into the boot camp applet in control panel > in Windows 7. 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