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August 14th, 2007

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 Update

Information from the Microsoft Web Site.

This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB940763).

System requirements

Before you install this update, make sure that the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.6 Update

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August 14th, 2007

Boot Camp and Partitioned Disks

“This startup disk is not supported.”

I just learned that Boot Camp cannot be installed on a Mac with a partitioned hard disk.

The error message I got was:

I wasted close to an hour trying to troubleshoot this problem before I found the answer hidden away in the documentation. (Duh-uh.)

From the Troubleshooting section at the end of

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