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I am trying to install windows 7 64 bit on my mac via bootcamp, only problem is that its an .iso file, and everytime i mount it or burn it and click install bootcamp cant find it.

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I can tell you right now that Windows cannot be installed from an ISO unless you're using a virtual machine (which isn't what you're doing if you're playing with Bootcamp), so naturally Bootcamp won't recognize a mounted ISO. – jrc03c Jul 19 '10 at 17:47
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When burning an ISO you must make sure that you aren't simply writing a single somefile.iso to the CD, but rather giving the ISO to the CD burner as an image of the CD.

If this is the problem then here is a nice simple guild on how to burn an ISO from a Mac. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060619181010389

If not please comment and we'll go from there.

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yer thats what I am trying to do. I am using toast titanium and draggin the iso file and clicking burn. ill read that page and get bak to u – Ryan Murphy Jul 19 '10 at 17:55
Right i have followed that article and i click burn. then it just says "burn disc in: SuperDrive" and underneath that it says "waiting for the drive" and it never actually does anything. just stays like that until i quit it. – Ryan Murphy Jul 19 '10 at 18:00
There must be something wrong with your superdrive then because I've used the steps listed in that article to burn a number of ISOs to CD on my own Mac. You might try a new blank CD or rebooting the computer, but there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Also it's pretty slow, so give the process 10 or 20 minutes. – Daisetsu Jul 19 '10 at 18:14
does it have to be CD, i only have DVDs – Ryan Murphy Jul 19 '10 at 18:16
right sorted cheers, only problem i have now is formatting my bootcamp partition to ntfs – Ryan Murphy Jul 19 '10 at 19:38
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