Archive for January, 2010
Boot Camp: Windows 7 on iMac – Fix Black Screen
Jan 4th
Recently I was making a Boot Camp installation of Windows 7 on my iMac, however, it did not go as smoothly as expected. During the installation process the screen went infinitely black, and it was not possible to continue the installation process.
Software versions:
- Boot Camp 3.0 (Mac OS X Snow Leopard)
- Windows 7
Doing a little search, I found the following solution on how to fix the problem.
Update: Apple has made a support article on the issue: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173
Solution (step by step from the beginning):
- Run Boot Camp Assistant from Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Applications -> Utilities)
- Create a partition for the Windows installation using Boot Camp Assistant
- Plugin your install disc and install Windows 7
- The system will reboot a couple of times during the installation
- The problem: The second time the system reboots, you the see the Windows red-green-blue-yellow animated logo, and then the screen goes black and hangs infinitely.
- Press and hold the power button on your iMac until it shuts down.
- Start the iMac again holding “alt” key, so you can select and load Max OS X Snow Leopard again.
- Run any application that let you work with NTFS partitions (e.g. Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X or MacFuse)
- Find the file “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ATIKMDAG.SYS” on your BOOTCAMP partition, and simply delete it.
- Restart you iMac, and boot up Windows 7
- Now Windows 7 should boot normally
- Run update windows utility and install Boot Camp drivers from the Mac OS X install disc
Boot Camp: Create Partition Error – Files cannot be moved
Jan 3rd
Recently I was about to install a Windows 7 beta using Boot Camp on my iMac, but it did not succeed due to an error. I was setting the Windows partition to 80 GB with plenty of free space available.
Then I got this error, namely “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved”:
But I did not like the idea of formatting my hard drive due to fix the issue, and make Boot Camp work. However, I found an other solution to the problem, namely installing tool to defragment the hard drive. Defragmentation is not something you usually do on a Mac, but here it came in handy. I found these two tool to do the trick:
- iDefrag (I used this)
What the tools basically do, is that they are able to moved the files, which for some reason is blocking the Boot Camp Partitioning.
iPhone 4G/HD release, features, design
Jan 1st
Rumours say that the new iPhone should arrive in the summer 2010, some say between May and July, and some have actually put a date on, namely the June 22.
It is always exciting what new features we can expect:
New Features:
Here is a summary of what rumours tell the new features will or could be:
- iPhone OS 4.0 (including Multi-Tasking)
- OLED display
- Better camera including flash (5 mega pixel?)
- New front facing video camera (iChat camera)
- Dual-Core processor
- Larger battery
- Removable battery?
- Touch sensitive case
- Full metal case (unibody) – like iPad
- 32G (basic) and 64G of memory.
Design:
