Using Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on your Mac: The Complete Walkthrough

If you happen to have the nvidia graphics card with your iMac: it has a faulty GPU and therefore brings up this error.

I deal with a similar problem. Bring it to Apple to exchange it, or just leave windows off it (use vmware instead)

Great Walkthrough! I’ve got to admit, though, I had several more problems while attempting to install the beta on my own unibody Macbook than you did. Partitioning in particular can give you a ton of errors, and takes forever if something is wrong.

I’d given up on installing the beta, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me, and I think I’ll give it another shot.

Re: the imac bsod: i had that happen on my imac at work, and it is because the boot camp drivers on the Leopard DVD are older than the iMac.

Just use the white DVD that came with your iMac INSTEAD of the Retail Leopard DVd to install the windows drivers, and you will be fine.

My problem is that when the system boots I just get a black screen with a cursor blinking up at the top left corner. I have left it there for 10 minutes but nothing seems to happen. This is the first reboot after step #8. Any ideas?

I’m curious can one nuke the Windows 7 partition and add it back to the main OS X partition without reformatting?

Please let me know.

@ Brian

Disk utility is capable of non destructive formatting? I was not able to get a definitive nswer anywhere.

@Brian -

Thanks for clarifying :) I had already emailed Michael w/ your advice on using Boot Camp Assistant to remove the existing Windows partition, so he’s safe. Using Disk Utility will certainly format the partition, but makes it a lot tougher (not impossible) to re-join w/ your OS X partition.

I’m working on a tutorial now that covers both methods.

Ross

My Apple wireless mouse also worked up until i ran the Leopard disk installer. When i add devices it shows the mouse but still doesn’t work.

@Phillip Look back to post #2. Tom says it will not work with the NVIDIA graphocs card. I have the the following:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM61.0093.B07
SMC Version: 1.10f3
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3022

I get the BSOD identifying display as the problem and it just reboots.

Has anyone been able to get it to work and if so, how?

Gareth – for my Macbook i used 32 – bit

Thanks for putting together these instructions. They worked perfectly for me on a 13″ MacBook (not aluminum). I’ve since installed several Windows apps and all is working fine so far. I do have one question: how did you get the OS down to 6G? After install, mine was around 10G. I saved 2G by turning off hibernation. Any other suggestions?

Philip, yes I managed to solve it….. I tried again……It was the same disk that failed initially but suddenly it started working. No idea why the problem would occur.
Brian aka BrianSF

Btw (and I promise this is the last post from me tonight). I have the nVidia card in my iMac and I have not had any BSOD.

i downloaded the windows 7 beta using my mac but the boot camp says it can’t find the disk image. My macbook is the 1.3 inch 2.4Ghz leopard v10.5.

please tell me what to do.

Im having troubles installig the bootcamp drivers, when I insert the disc It just doesent run, it displays an error message.
Any ideas.

I have installed Windows 7 but I can’t find my OSX Leopard DVD, is there any other way i can get BootCamp installed on Windows, or at least somehow get back to my OSX installation?

I have a 2.2Ghz 15″ MBP and when it tries to boot to the Win 7 install DVD it says:
1.
2.
Select DVD-ROM type:_

The is nothing next to 1 or 2 and the keyboard is unresponsive. Anyone encounter this?

@johnny and Emett

Yes, i tried to install de 64 bit and my imac shows me that message:

1.
2.
Select DVD-ROM type:_

please, somebody helps us, how can we install Win 7 in our iMacs?

I tried to install the 64 bit version,since I have more than 4 gigs of ram. I received the same error as above. I tried some of the solutions on other sites,such as reburning the dvd,but no go. I decided it wasn’t worth the effort to play with a beta.

I’ve just installed the latest 64 bit Windows 7 on my 24″ iMac (nVidia 8800 GS). Everything went on ok. The Bootcamp drivers don’t work obviously. No Audio :( Windows has detected a High Definition Audio Device and seems to think it’s using it ok but there’s no actual sound. No iSight driver either.

Downloaded the iso, got the product key, and used RecordNow to burn the disc. When I insert the disc into my XP PC, it recognizes it as a Windows install disc, but the Superdrive on my MacBook Air doesn’t recognize it at all. Any alternatives? Can I burn the iso from my Air via the Superdrive? Use remote disc?

thx BrianSF! Downloading the Realtek driver did the trick for me. However i still need the drivers for iSight, Bluetooth, and touchpad. My OS X Leopard DVD woun’t work, so any one who knows where I may find the other drivers?

…and we’re go! Downloaded the Realtek driver and the sound worked. Haven’t tried iSight or Bluetooth yet (but I recall seeing the Apple Bluetooth driver being loaded during the software update).

A few suggestions to clarify the process:
Step 9: Before you get the prompt asking where you want to install, you’ll get a black screen and a progress window that says ‘installing files’. I was a bit worried it had started to install by default…
Step 13: My MacBook Air did not automatically boot back into Windows 7; I came back in OS X and had to reboot while holding the option key down.

Otherwise, remarkably quick. Got Office03 installed as well, making the whole think pretty work-compatible…

Has anyone with the Nvidia problem that has not been able to get pass the BSOD screen tried to install either Windows XP or Vista and then tried to upgrade to Win7?

Thought abot trying it, but want to see if anyone else has had experience with it.

Thanks to everyone for all the great support.

Anyone know how to slow down the swipe response time? I can swipe up and down in IE8 but it’s wicked fast…

how do I burn the image to a DVD, I copied the file from my portable drive to the DVD and hit burn. The file extesion is still .iso. Am I missing a step?

@Allan
If you’re on a mac, go to the applications and find the folder Utilities, Open it and look for and click Disk Utility.

On the left side top panel, you see the disk drives on the system. Directly below you should have a list of .iso files. If the file you want to burn is not listed, click on the Burn icon at the top and find the file.

If it’s listed in the bottom panel, right click and select Burn. If you use the Burn icon at the top, just find and select the file and click Burn. Insert a blank disk and you should be good to go.

Hope this helps.

You’re supposed to burn the .iso file right? I’ve done that and also double clicked the .iso file and also burned that too. Neither worked.

Yea, I did. I got it to work though. Apparently you need to burn through the utility. I’m on Windows 7 right now and I do like it so far! Is there anyway to get the tap click to work on Windows? I can’t stand having to actually push the mouse pad down to click on things….

No luck on my iMac 6,1 either

I am trying an XP install and upgrading to 7 beta to see if that makes a difference. I will report back shortly.

Everything worked great on my 2.4 ghz iMac except when I loaded the new Realtek driver, the internal microphone stopped working. The internal microphone worked great before I loaded that new driver to get sound to play, but now it’s broken. I’ve tried everything to try to get it working again, but with no luck. I tried to roll back the drivers but that didn’t work either. Anyone else have this problem and have fixed it? Any Help would be greatly appreciated!

I just installed Windows 7 with VM Ware fusion on my MBP 2.16. Works like a charm…

Anyone solve the problem with the black screen asking for windows boot disk?

Guess nobody else had my issue?
When I try to run setup.exe from my Leopard OS-X disc, it pops up a message saying that I must be running Windows-XP SP2 or Windows Vista!
Then it pops up a screen similar to the one in the run-through, with “Finish” being the only active button!

So, no dice for me in installing ANY of Apple’s drivers!

@ Peter:

Which type of Mac (model/gen etc) do you have? The phrase “we may be out of luck testing Beta 1 on our Macs” isn’t entirely accurate, as it runs without any errors on my Mac – a first gen MacBook Pro.

Hey. Install worked fine but it doesn’t read the Mac OS Application DVD ?! Any suggestions how I can get the drivers on there without the DVD? Cause I can use other cd’s / DVD’s and they work fine. Can’t make an Iso out of the application DVD and can’t access the DVD on Win XP either…something is weird…ideas? Email me, thanks!

Edits to post 69 and 71

Problem Solved:

My original install was an upgrade from Vista 64Bit. For some reason the procedure didn’t like certain devices and wouldn’t load the drivers. My second install and mistake was trying a clean install from Boot Camp. That left me with the “1. 2. Choose,..” error.

Reading on another site, the way I needed to install Win7 was from within Vista but selecting a custom(Clean) install. That worked. I loaded the Boot Camp 64bit drivers 2.01 then the upgrade to 2.1. All devices except the Realtek Audio worked.

To fix the No Sound problem I headed over to Guru3d.com and downloaded the Genric Audio drivers Version 2.14, first one on there list. That worked like a charm.

All is good, good luck to those still searching.

@tchapp

That’s very helpful. i put in the dvd. saw the directory you told me about, then copied all those files onto my hard drive. when i try to run any of those apps, i give permission, then nothing happens. nothing installs or anything. I must be doing it wrong. could you tell me the next steps after seeing the files, until everything is completely installed? thanks!

That was the first thing I tried, but all that happened then was I got an error saying the application wasn’t properly installed, would i like to try again? and when i do that, that is when nothing further happens. I got the same results whether I left the files on the disk, or if i copied to the hard drive.

you can only install a few driver. for me, i got isight, bluetooth, audio and something else off of it. i think intel gma drivers or something. nothing else will work. i tried everysingle one.

These steps worked beautifully for me on my white macbook. The only thing I needed to do was download the RealTek.

Just a clarification by “get it going” I mean “installed”.

Every single time i go to windows 7 then back to mac os, my clock gets set 5 hours back on the mac. (I’m in UTC-5, new york) It doesn’t matter if i have set time.nist.gov to be the time server in windows and in the mac os. it doesn’t matter if i have the time set to manual… i have tried all the combinations, manual-manual, manual-auto, auto-manual, and auto-auto, and in none of those cases does the clock work properly when i return to mac os.

I googled this and see this has been an apple bug since before 2006, and here we are 3 years later, and they still haven’t fixed it.

more oddly, people have solved this problem for themselves in all sorts of ways–none of which have worked for me.

does anybody have a workaround?

@phil, is there something i can do to just be able to have internet time in windows and mac os x work correctly? if i disable apple time services… then won’t i have an out-of-sync clock on the mac side?

Hey I have Windows 7 on a DVD I just have the .ISO is there somthing I needed to do before burning it to the DVD becuase its giving me an error saying cannot find windows disc when I start installation.

I’ve installed and *everything* went fine, except the graphics driver will not install, it just installed the generic VGA driver and I have not been able to force the install, even when doing it manually it will not install. I tried downloading the correct drivers, running the setup program (says no hardware found), then applying the drivers directly on the device manager to no avail.

As a side effect of this (I think) I get all kinds of funny UI errors, like the task bar menu will turn black, and other things

my video card is the NVidia GeForce 8800 GS

Could who help me?
I am need installing the Windows XP or more finished in 10 minutes.
thank you for the help.
good luck for you.

@.c -

Yes, I have a tutorial here on using hfsexplorer to access your OS X partition/drives from Windows while in Boot Camp. Great program.

I have a Mac book pro with 1GB of RAM and Mac OSX 10.3 on it.
My grandmother gave it to me and I do not have a Mac install disk for it, nor can I afford to purchase one.

It does not have Bootcamp installed on it, and it isn’t able to mount DMGs properly, it gives an error allong the lines of “invalad file system” when I try to mount something.

How can I install Windows 7 build 7068 as the primary OS of this computer?

Please help!

ATTENTION: Solution for problems with installing BootCamp drivers on Windows 7 included on Leopard installation disk (only for MacBook Pro – late 2008 model)

Problem:
At the beginning of the installation the MSI error 2229 occures!

Solution:
1.) Use the program InstEd (www.instedit.com) to open the BootCamp.msi (…/Drivers/Apple/…) package on the Leopard installation disk and drop the table “Verification”. Additionally search for the terms “=600″ and change them to “>=600″. Copy the whole directory tree from the Leopard installation disk (BootCamp drivers) to the harddisk and replace the original BootCamp.msi with the file just edited in InstEd. Open the preferences menu of the file and activate the vista compatibility mode.
2.) Open the preference menu for the file “AppleMultiTouchTrackPadInstaller” (…/Drivers/Apple/…) and activate the vista compatibility mode.
3.) Start the BootCamp driver installation with the file “setup.exe”.
Note: A sound driver error will occure during installation. Just ignore it. Everything will work fine after installation.
4.) Run the Apple Software Update and update the touchpad driver.
5.) Activate the right click option with 2 fingers in the bootcamp control panel.
Note: It will only work with 3 fingers when you activate the 2 finger right click option. Without the 2 finger right click option enabled the right click is not working at all.
6.) Activate Aero effects by running the speed test in the vista control panel.

Known issues:
Sound effects are not entirely pure and clear! Maybe there is a better driver available directly from the manufacturer of the soundcard.

I hope this little step-by-step guide helps!

got it working, just had to manually install the drivers on disc then followed up with the 64bit bootcamp setup. running well so far.

Hi all and thanks for all great tips above!
I’ve installed W7 RC 7100 on my macbook and all driver including the new updated boot camp 2.1 program and the multi touch driver following Daniel’s instructions. My problem is that there is no option in the Boot Camp control panel to turn on the multi touch features. Any clues on what went wrong?

Regards, Da9l

Ok, sorry for being unclear. Insted of “multi touch features” I should have written that I can’t see any option to enable the right click emulation in the bootcamp controlpanel. I’ve followed the instructions above and even downloaded and installed the specified drivers explicitly but obviously, I must have done something wrong.

@Zach -

I assure you, I’m not running Snow Leopard :) The scroll bars are just a small hack and I’m not even sure what you’re talking about re: new stacks view, but whatever it is, it’s a part of Leopard (10.5.x).

Just got Windows 7 RC up and running on my MacPro.

Not able to connect my apple bluetooth mouse or keyboard. Just a spinning “connecting to device”. Had issues with this even in XP, something with passkeys.

Anyone seen any solutions to this?

@Eber Irigoyen

Windows Update should find the drivers for you. Alternatively, they come with the boot camp helper on the Leopard DVD.

About 64 Bit Windows 7

I have installed the 64 bit version of windows 7 on my 24″ Early 2008 iMac. The install went smoothly but there were some hitches installing apple’s boot camp helper. Just running setup.exe resulted in an error about not supporting 64 bit windows. I needed run the Apple64 setup program, which is buried in the Apple folder on the disc. It gave me a warning about compatibility, which I ignored, and then I downloaded and installed the boot camp 2.1 update for Vista 64 (again with a compatibility warning, which I ignored). That gave me working sound, iSight, ir remote, and hardware other goodies like keyboard and mouse drivers.

The only ‘issue’ I have is that the boot camp app in the system tray and control panel require admin privileges, so I get a UAC warning whenever I try to open it.

My trouble is that I use a PC keyboard with my new Mac Mini and the ‘Alt’ key doesn’t work as Leopard’s ‘Option key’. When logged into Leopard the Win7 partition doesn’t show up hence no way I could select between 2 OS!

It appears that this is a known issue see http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9389646#9389646

@Ben
This is higher up in the comments – I also followed this and it worked fine for me too:
“I had to right click on the device when it was found in bluetooth sync part, and then there is an option for Human Control Devices. (Mice, Keyboards etc…)

I ticked that box and afterwards Windows 7 installed the Apple Keyboard and everything was hunky dory.”

As a side note, on my installation there is a check box in the ‘Services’ tab that says ‘Drivers for keyboard, mice, etc. (HID)’ just check that and it will work!

Hi ! An error came up when i run setup.exe on the leopard dvd, is there any way to solve the problem, or at least come back to Mac OS X ?

@Jakob

Read my step-by-step guide above in the comments. It will help you to install all necessary things in windows 7.

O.K. I’m seeing a lot of drivers installed from my original Leopard System Disc. It may have fixed the audio problem you warned about. Lots of other drivers. Where are these drivers coming from my Sys.Disc, or the Internet? If they are coming from the original Sys. Disc. will Windows7 update them as needed? I’m still doing the BootCamp drivers install so I don’t know if this old Leopard disc is going to cut it.

ok so…
I have a 20 inch imac. I recentley installed Windows 7 using bootcamp. I am currently on my windows os and need to switch back to Mac os. My wireless ketboard is disconnected and it wont let me click options in boot up to go baack to mac os. I have connected a usb keyboard and mouse and it has the same problem but i am able to use it on my windows login. The bootcamp wont run on my windows since its a 64 bit.
HOW THE HELL DO I GET MY MAC OS BACKKK??????????

I installed Windows 7 RC on a partition for my new unibody MacBook Pro. I’m having problems with right click tho. I used to have no sound but installed the RealTek drivers and all is fine there. I installed the Apple update for the trackpad in Bootcamp, still no right click ability. I don’t take a mouse everywhere, is there any way to get this to work?

Mike, I don’t know if this will help you out, but make sure your partition is 20 gig or more. The OS loves disk space, my install failed because I originally didn’t have enough.

Ok, I am using a 1.87 GHz iMac. I installed 7 fine, no problems, however, when i put my Leopard install disk in, nothing happens. I go to my comp, and check there, click the cd, and its blank. No error, nothing, just blank. So i go and DL the realtek drivers, try to run them, restart, still had driver issues. I tried the steps that post 100 contained, but got nowhere, since there is nothing listed in the CD. And i know the DVD works becuase just today I reformatted my drive becuase bootcamp required me too.

Any help?

just add in it
what i am saying is if you already finished installing the windows 7 64 bit and trying to install boot camp that was the next that you will do above

For those who come after me: I just lost two hours of my life, figuring out that the SuperDrive must be plugged directly into the Macbook Air for it to be able to boot from the DVD. If it’s plugged into the USB hub of the 24″ Cinema display, all you see is a grey apple logo for a very long time…

Anyone having problems with OpenGL on Windows RC7 using bootcamp? If so, have you come up with a solution for this one?
I have a intel 2 core macbook from 2007 with a mobile intel(R) 945 express chipset family card with WDDM 1.0 something…
I have tried to install the latest GMA driver for 32-bit windows vista from intel but the OS refuses to install it.

I am having the same problem as #135 & #137. I got my install disc out. I have a MacBook purchased last October. I also had my Time Machine backup. You just shouldn’t be doing this install without doing your backup first.

For what it’s worth, I got Windows 7 32bit to work great using these directions on my new Macbook Pro, EXCEPT… since it installed a bunch of drivers that were wrong (like an ATI driver and some other things), I made sure to tell Windows to update the video card driver and the network drivers itself before I let it reboot. Things seem to work great!

Great Tutorial !

Why does Aero not work ?

I have had my W7 partition reformatted to the MacOS ???. I decided to do a major cleanup, tossing out some downloaded apps that I have never used, lots of orphaned plists, renamed the W7 partition from “untitled” to “Windows” and did a bootable backup with CCC.
Now the partition shows up in Disc Utility as a MacOS Extended partition of 31.4 GB containing 45 files. When I fire up Boot Camp Assistant it does not show up as a separate volume and the following text is in the “Create or remove a Windows Partition” window, “This disk is your MacOS X startup disk and appears to have been partitioned by another utility. The only option I have then is to erase the whole disk. And of course Disk Utility will not recombine the two partitions. Any clues please on how to get the space back and start over?

Maybe you should just grind your teeth and wait for Snow Leopard. Boot Camp 3.0 supposedly has a way better support for Windows 7 (and even HFS+) – and, for those too eager to wait a beta version of BC3.0 has already leaked to mininova.

I discovered that a USB hub/card reader combo device was causing my Windows boot time to increase significantly (over 2 minutes). Unplugging this USB device solved the problem.

@Charls post 34
had/have the same prob think its is because of the 64 bit and you /I need the 32 bit, Im getting that now and will post back later

Mac Newbee here.
I’m running an iMac 24, 3.06, 4gb, 500hd with Leopard (fully updated).
i’be been trying to install windows 7 via boot camp but get the same message everytime when I restart – “No bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key”. Have tried a number of times but it still doesn’t pick up the disk. I have tried the disk on a mates macbook pro + also my PC, there doesn’t seem to be a problem with the disk. Any suggestions guys? cheers

Hey I just want to thank you, I just followed step by the step of this walkthrough and everything worked perfectly. The Windows 7, 64 bit , is really fast and neat. The only thing i would say is uping the Recommended GB amount for the windows. I have the 64 bit and its a 10 GBs, i put about 44GB which left me with about 33 and change for games and movies. thanks again couldn’t have done it without this site.

I have a 2008 iMac (2.8 Ghz C2D and HD2600) and tried to install Windows XP in bootcamp. The partitioning in the Bootcamp utility works fine, so I set it to 32GB, put in the XP disc (Wich is 32bit + SP2) and click “Start Installation”. Now my iMac is going to reboot, and a black screen with a with blinking underscore (_ <that one) appears. The disc spins a bit and than… nothing. After a few reboots, the install proces finaly starts and everything is going fine untill the reboot after the format (NTFS). Than the nice error; “disc error. press any key to coninue” appears, and I can start it all over again. I tried it over 10 times now, and it still doesnt work.

So I thought, maybe my fresh burned Windows 7 copy would do the trick, but this one doesnt even make into the install process. The screen remains black with the blinking underscore, and that’s that.

Am I doing something wrong, or are my Windows discs just screwed? They do all work perfectly on a ‘real’ PC afterall…

Well. Now my iMac won’t start the install process at ALL. Both Windows 7 and XP won’t start the Install. Does this stupid Bootcamp thing ACTUALY work?

Worked great! Thanks for the walkthrough!

Troubleshooting Guide To Boot Camp 2.1
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With a Mac Book Pro Os X Leopard and Windows XP Pro. I am providing this guide because I spent literally days fixing various problems most related to bad drivers. If I can save you the Nightmare I had it will be worth my time to write this guide for you!

Install Windows XP on FAT32
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While using Mac if you ONLY want to be able to read XP files (NTFS or FAT32) then skip this section because OS X Leopard is able to correctly detect NTFS and FAT32 disks in READ ONLY mode.

However if you want to be able to read & write XP files (NTFS or FAT32) in Mac then you would install a program like Paragon NTFS or NTFS-3G. However once you do this you will experience this Problem:

Windows partition missing from Mac ‘startup disk’ menu when using NTFS-3G or Paragon NTFS in Mac (Bootcamp 2.1 fails to fails to show windows disk in startup menu after installing NTFS-3G or Paragon NTFS)

It is unclear who is to blame for this bug. Both Paragon and NTFS-3G DO NOT KNOW HOW TO FIX the problem so the finger is pointed at this being an Apple Boot Camp bug! Don’t hold your breath for a bug fix from Apple because I saw people have been having this problem for several years. It would be nice if the Apple cared a bit more about the Windows people they are trying to win over but anyway we are greatful for Boot Camp (even if it is as buggy as hell).

First my personal experience, I had it working perfectly before and after loading NTFS-3G onto my Macbook. I also had it working perfectly with Paragon NTFS. Then after a few months I reinstalled XP. Suddenly it no longer worked! Very fustrating when you KNOW it can work perfectly. It took me several days to figure out that this due to the fact that I had first installed XP and formated as FAT32 but the second time had installed XP and formated as NTFS!!

ONLY KNOWN Solution for this problem :

Format XP using FAT32. Apple understands FAT32 and everything will work as normal!
Do not format using NTFS as Apple does not understand it and XP will be missing from the ‘startup disk’ menu!

NTFS users can use this work around solution :

Install Paragon NTFS and use Paragon to set your boot partition and then reboot.

The least desirable solution :

Hold the ALT key down while booting and choose XP.

Install Boot Camp version 2.1
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Using the the disc that comes with your Apple Mac Book Pro.

After Installation update the following drivers to these versions or newer :

Broadcom 802.11 Wireless (5.10.91.8) (4321AG) (*)
Realtek HD Audio R2.27 (5.10.0.5874) (2009-06-16)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT v185.85 (07.05.2009) (v6.14.11.8585)

Note (*)
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Broadcom 802.11 Wireless drivers must be force installed to 4321AG. You can do this after installation by using the device manager and updating the driver to 4321AG. These drivers are ‘borrowed’ from another Broadcom 802.11 Wireless device since an update for the BCM 4328 drivers are not available from Apple or Broadcom.

Unresolved Issue
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Back lighting of keyboard is not working in XP. Apple Bug?

Problems Fixed By Doing These Updates
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Bootcamp KbdMgr.exe Latency Problems Slowing Your XP
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I could not fix this problem but found an easy work around.

First check if your latency is being affected by the ‘KbdMgr.exe’ driver. Use ‘DPC Latency Checker’. If the latency is green then you are OK! Skip Adead. If your latency is red then kill the ‘KbdMgr.exe’ in the task manager and check the latency. If it drops then this work around applies to you.

Open the Boot Camp directory in your Program Files directory. The real ‘KbdMgr.exe’ is renamed to something else like ‘Boot Camp.exe’ so that you can use it to boot back to Mac when you want to. Create a shortcut to the new name from from your desktop.

Then create an empty text file and give it the name ‘KbdMgr.exe’. This will allow your PC to boot normally and run normally but will prevent Boot Camp loading automatically.

Wireless Problems
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The Broadcom 802.11 Wireless drivers for the (BCM 4328) are unstable and often loose connection or freeze or stop working for no reason. The driver that causes this problem is version 4.170.25.12 (20/09/2007) BCMWL5.SYS

Sound Problems
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The Broadcom 802.11 Wireless drivers (BCM 4328) drivers cause sound problems. Music or sound stutters or slows on playback. The driver that causes this problem is version 4.170.25.12 (20/09/2007) BCMWL5.SYS.

Apple Touch Pad Problems
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The drivers supplied on the Boot Camp disc from Apple work but do not install correctly for some unknown reason but the drivers do work once you get them installed. The driver install files are :

AppleMultiTouchTrackPad.exe
AppleTrackpad.exe

Your Apple Touch Pad Drivers are working when Device Manager shows :

Apple MultiTouch
Apple Multitouch Mouse

And you can do a right click by holding two fingers on the touch pad and doing a click
You can scroll up and down using two fingers. Adjust the wheel scrolling speed to one line at a time under mouse properties in the control panel.

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To install the drivers correctly use the Device Manager and look under Human Interface Devices. You should find two Apple ‘Touchpad’ drivers listed with a (Yellow !) change these drivers to use the ‘USB Human Interface Device’ driver. Then install both ‘Apple MultiTouch TrackPad’ and ‘Apple Trackpad’. This should automatically update the ‘USB Human Interface Devices’ to the correct working Apple drivers. This worked for me. However if you are still having problems you can try the General Driver Installation Tips.

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General Driver Installation Tips
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Uninstall all devices drivers that are failing and reboot.

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Make sure all non-Apple drivers are working properly. If not try and fix them first. I had a Logitech Mouse driver that was not working and suddenly when I fixed that at least half my Apple drivers started working. There was probably a resource conflict or some other relationship between the Logitech driver and the Apple Drivers.

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If any driver is giving errors delete the physical driver file and reinstall! This is very useful when nothing you seem to do works. Sometimes you must physically delete the old driver file so that windows will correctly install the new one. I don’t know the technical reasons for this only I found that this worked for me when I had to replace a Logitech Mouse driver after hours of fustration.

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If you are busy in Device Manager and working with ‘Human Interface Devices’ and accidentally uninstall one of these drivers which are related to your mouse driver your mouse will stop working. Don’t reboot, just unplug your mouse and plug it in again and Windows will autodetect a new mouse driver for you.

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If you have been messing around and installing many drivers and your drivers still fail then try roll back the drivers until you can’t anymore and then try one of the above methods again.

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The sound issue….I already have the latest Realtek drivers isntalled, but the sound still doesn’t work. I tried inserting the bootcamp CD and doing it through there, but windows tells me “Boot Camp x64 is not supported on this compute model” which is BS because I just used it on my Mac Software on the same computer. SO I just found the “RealtekSetup.exe” file on the OS X LEopard CD and ran that, but it’d just “updated” my sound driver to the one I currently have already. And the Realtek site is broken, you can’t download the drivers manually there. I think I’m screwed?

Hi,

We are trying to install W7 on my Macbook, but with no success. We have manage to create a big enough partition for W7 via Boot Camp, but it does not want to read the exe file to start the W7 installation. It shows the files on the disk, but if you click the file, nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Hi, good walk-though thanks,

I had the same problem as a few of you regarding the BSOD on the 24″ white iMac. I managed to get around it by doing the following (this is from memory so forgive me if i miss a step)

After the BSOD allow the iMac to restart with the Win7 install DVD in
You will get a message saying press any key to boot from CD, do this and you will go back in to the Win7 Installer.
Select you county and click next but don’t click the “install now” button
Instead click Repair My Computer
You will be presented with a list (after some time) of windows installs on the iMac select the one you just did (as I’ve only got os x and win7 I only had one I don’t know if older os’s show up)
From the Repair options presented select command prompt
navigate to the c:\windows\system32\drivers folder by typing
c:
cd windows
cd system32
cd drivers
now you rename the broken driver file by typing
ren nvlddmkm.sys nvlddmkm.old
close the command prompt and restart the computer
you should be able to continue with the setup

Will see how i get on with drivers but so far so good.

Hey, I’ve read through the comments but I couldn’t really find an answer to the problem with the Boot Drive error and the USB Keyboards not working. There was a solution to upgrading from vista or XP but not from booting from the disc and using bootcamp.

The computer I have is a 24″ iMac running 10.5.8; 2.4 GHz Duo

As said earlier in the comment thread, a black screen comes up saying
1.
2.
Then asks for aCD-Rom Boot option but the keyboard doesn’t work.

I would like to take this time and thank you for this tutorial….it takes alot of time to create a tutorial of what you did and you have pictures for almost everything. Great stuff keep it up!!!!!!!1

Forgot to say that I’m using Leopard 10.5.8

Well, to be honest, I’m not sure which one I did because I don’t know the difference…

So, could you please explain how I can burn the disk using the ISO image? At the moment I think I just burned the ISO file because all I did was copy+paste the file onto the disk and then burn it onto the disk…

So, thanks in advance for telling me how to burn the disk using the ISO image.

If it makes any difference to you, on my PC the installer starts up right away when I put the disk in…yet on my mac it says boot camp cant find the installer disc…

Is there something else I need to burn onto the disk besides the windows 7 things?

What exactly did you burn onto your disk?

Aha, I see…I was using .iso file and it needed to be .dmg

So, you were right…It’s the wrong file type

Thanks Michael! Glad I could help, and I hope its working!

used your guide whiling installing windows 7 64 bit on new MBP 13in 2.53 GHz. Sound works right off the bet. One big PROBLEM: microphone not recognized in any win 7 programs (ex. Skype). Did an exhaustive google search. Found the same discussion on Apple site. Can’t find any solutions. Am I missing something

Great help. I appreciate it.

how all you people have windows 7 already… it hasn’t come out yet…

hey,
i just successfully installed windows 7 32 bit, and whenever i go to start up windows 7 it just shows a black screen with a white line blinking. it just sits there and doesnt start. any help?
thanks

Thanks for the manual:) It’s great!!!

Hey will the old mac osx tiger cd work for the drivers cause i have leopard and all but i lost the cd and i only have tiger cd

Thanks – fantastic guide – I had the same problem as Robbie when installing the 64-bit version “BootCamp x64 is not supported on this computer”, and followed Jay’s instructions… but Windows wouldn’t run the installer as it didn’t have the right privileges – but I found a fix at http://blog.andersonshatch.com/2009/01/11/windows-7-x64-on-a-macbook-pro-guide/ – although it does involve invoking the CMD prompt and typing in some DOS commands. Its just like being back in my old Windows 3.1 days, when installing programs always involves this kind of techno-jiggery-pokery.

To make it so starting into these systems is more streamlined, you should install “rEFIt”

Just google it and you should find it. This will make it so you can select which system to start upon boot, and will default into OS X after 15 seconds.

Hi I am trying to instal windows 7 on imac. no luck so far. i get almost to the end of the installation, and my imac reboots, and then the screen goes blank as if the whole machine has stalled. the only thing to do is to turn the machine off and on again. this takes me to a screen ehich gives me the option of running windows in safe mode or normal mode. whichever one i choose, i get back to a blank secreen again. please help me or i think i might put a sledgehammer thru my imac screen !! :-)

I am trying to install Win 7 on my new iMac, everything seemed to work ok until it went to reboot to finish installing. When it rebooted the screen said that it was starting Windows then the screen went blank, so I can not finish installing. Does anyone have some thoughts.

Thanks

Dear All,

I have problem in Windows 7 in MacBookPro

1. Sound is not working , very very slow. But I can here voice through hard phone looks like problem with driver, I didnot find any driver in site.

And also I am seraching the camera software

Can some one help in this regard

Thanks and Regards
Kishore

Hi all..

I have the same problem.. :(

“I am trying to install Win 7 on my new iMac, everything seemed to work ok until it went to reboot to finish installing. When it rebooted the screen said that it was starting Windows then the screen went blank, so I can not finish installing. Does anyone have some thoughts.”

Any help..??

just installed windows 7 on my mac….no problems at all except 1…..cant eject my cd/dvd when running under windows…when trying to find solution got message nothing available…..guess i have to wait until another version of bootcamp is out unless someone know something around this

to get the os’s to talk dont hack os x. install macdrive8 to windows. if you want to rename the partition do it in windows as os x wont let you because ntfs drive are read only

The boot camp drivers don’t install in 64-bit

Thanxx

Worked! thx

Awesome guide. I don’t even have a Mac Book and this basically makes me want to get one.

Thanks for the Guide!

Can anyone confirm whether you need a usb keyboard and mouse to follow this tutorial – or can you do the install with the supplied bluetooth devices with the new imac ?

@Mike Scott:
If you’ve installed an NTFS driver on the Mac side (like NTFS-3G), your NTFS volumes will no longer show up in the “Startup Disk” section. It’s easy, however, to write a tiny AppleScript to boot Windows. Write this in AppleScript Editor:

do shell script “bless –device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot” with administrator privileges

Replace /dev/disk0s1 with the device ID of your disk which you can find by hitting Cmd+i on your windows partition in Disk Utility. Save it as an application and put it in your dock. You can give it a nice Windows icon — clicking it’ll ask for your password (bless must be run under sudo) and then restart in Windows!

-Aaron

ugh, that’ll teach me to do this from memory. You’ll need a –legacy in there too to emulate the BIOS. And, it seems you can use a –volume method (I’ve not tried this):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1083295/applescript-how-can-i-quit-all-running-user-apps-and-then-restart-to-bootcamp-pa

Make sure to use the “tell app Finder to restart” instead of the shutdown command (in the comments).

I just installed windows 7 on my new macbook pro 13 and the only trouble i have been having is getting right-click to work on my track pad. Anyone know of a way to get it to work?

How exactly do you remove/eject the DVD before it boots up? I’ve got a MAcbook pro and tried pressing the eject button on the keyboard but it didn’t seem to work.

Does it matter?

To eject a cd at boot time, hold down the mouse button as you boot.

I recently upgraded my iMac to Snow Leopard and wanted to set up bootcamp, have done so, did a clean install updated all the software and started the Boot Camp assistant, Partitioned the drive and restarted via BC Assistant with my copy of Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (I know it’s not offically supposed to work but many people have done it) when I get to the install page I get a screen that looks like this:

1.

2.
Select CD-ROM Boot Type: _

Nothing I press effects anything, I’ve tried another keyboard, my iMac is a white 23′(?) flatscreen from late 2006…
HELP!

How do I make the sound work without the OS Leopard disc? (My macbook came preinstalled with all the software…)
PLEASE HELP ME THANKS!!
Is there another way I can install the sound drivers without the leopard disc?

And thanks for an awesome tutorial, you are a HUGE help. Thank you.

PLEASEEEE HEEELPPP ME !!!!!

I installed windows 7 ultimate on my new unbody white macbook, everything works fine, except the wireless, no wireless is picked up, any ideas, ive tried drives but nothing has worked, please help !!!!!!

Thank you for the informations mate !
It worked perfectly on my macbookpro.

thanks for the installation process it was very straight foward very good instructions

Good walkthrough. Installed like a charm with no problems.

For the person that needed assistance in selecting default boot OS:
under Windows 7, Control Panel, System and security, select Boot Camp. Under the Startup Disk tab select system (OS) which you want your computer to start up automatically.

In step 12, I didn’t have to remove installation DVD. I also had to provoke Windows to get updates.

Thanks for the write up!

Eagle: Do you still have th DVD stuck in the drive? It happened to me when I was installing XP (it fixed itsself after a reboot prehaps just had to initialise the Mac drivers). However, in Windows, to eject a disk do the following:
- LEFT CLICK on the Start button (bottom left) then select MY COMPUTER
- Find the drive letter (probably D or E)
- RIGHT CLICK the drive icon
- Select EJECT

A+ guide. Installed and fully operational in less than an hour on my 13” unibody MBP.
Great for playing games, runs most valve games flawlessly, fallout 3 looks gorgeous on it, and i was even able to play crysis! (with reduced graphics of course)

I installed 7 on my new MBP in just half an hour, and then it took me just 15 minutes to install all the specific drivers from the Apple OS X installation CD. I think it’s not as herd as you are describing, though maybe i’ve just been very lucky… cheers

Yes, but to meny blue screen apears!!!

mine went in easy as pie
but when i tried to use the MAC disc, it said that using Boot Camp 64 bit is not supported-so i had to instal REALTEK now i have sound
am i missing anything?

i’ve installed the 32bit-version and cannot detect wifi…

In my case, installation was almost done, but during its 3rd reboot just after it completed the configuration and before it was trying to finish installation, I forgot to remove the Media (Windows 7) disk. Now I am stuck. My Mac Pro is rebooting only to Windows. It has a wireless Apple keyboard which windows is not recognizing. Now, either y keyboard should be identified by Winodws after the boot up, or I have to get my Mac after a reboot.

Please suggest.

Thank you about it but is not install driver wireless..please help me

if you are on a 27″ imac from late 2009 and getting the prolonged black death screen while trying to install, you need to load some stuff onto a thumb drive to make the graphics come back. Worked like a champ. Follow the url to get it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173

Thanks a lot………….!
This is very help full to the mac users who ever stuck with some driver issue….>!

Brilliant help thanks!

Am i being stupid, once you have installed Windows and the disk is partitioned, can you change the amount of memory you have for both windows and mac

thank a lot

Thanks. Great posting. Everything worked as advertised. Very Helpful.

Hi,
Thanks a lot for the tutorial. Everything went well, except 2 problems:
1) Same as many people from what I see here above: no wifi available once windows7 install is completed. It seems the hardware was not installed. I had also a error on the network controller, that windows7 was not able to fix. What I did to fix the problem:
– I inserted the snow leopard DVD (3.0 bootcamp) (as per tutorial) => installed many drivers, but did not fix the wifi issue
– I connected to internet through the ethernet cable, and run “Apple software update”. It upgraded to 3.1 version and automaticaly triggered the drivers update => the wifi icon appeared ! the error on the network controller disappeared.
– Then, I applied the windows7 updates. No problem.

2) the second I faced is weird, I searched for this problem quickly but I did not find any comment about it. During “Finalizing your settings” step (windows7 installation): I got a windows error (windows message pop up with the red cross), saying basically: can not write on c:\ drive. It was dealing with a boot* file, I do not remember the name exactly, unfortunately I did not write the error number. I skipped the error, then the installation got stuck at the “finalizing your settings” step (for more than 10 minutes), which is supposed to last few seconds from the tutorials I saw. I switched off the computer, it started and installation resumed exactly where It was stuck before. I restarted the macbook again (holding several seconds on/off button – not sure it made any difference), but then windows7 started normally, I guess it was the step just following the “finalization your settings” step.
I am using windows7 for more than 4 hours, installed several updates, softwares. Made several reboots, everything is working perfectly… so far.
Just to let you know…

Configuration: macbook late2009 version. Windows7 64 bits

Help, I cannot get wifi to work for the Windows side after reinstalling Snow Leopoard

how to download windows 7?

It’s really helps. Thanks a lot for the post.

just installed windows 7 on my mac….no problems at all except 1…..cant eject my cd/dvd when running under windows…when trying to find solution got message nothing available…..guess i have to wait until another version of bootcamp is out unless someone know something around this

I feel weird asking this…a comparably small problem when looking at all the rest. Everytrhing went fine during install, Windows 7 is working fine, but I have one small issue. The trackpad on the MacBook Pro does not “right click”…it moves the cursor and LEFT clicks, but I can not right-click unless I use the external USB mouse.
I did some research, but, although the problem is prevalent, no one has a good answer.
Can anyone here help me?

Ok so i instaled windows seven but i instaled it with a boot camp that didint have windows 7.

But it work’d i installed windows 7 and all but i have a problem that im really worried about.
when i rebbot the imac it always starts with windows 7 and i cant change back to os x
when i installed it a did it on the boot drive but i click all the buttons and i can go back!!
I really hope you can help me please

oh yea, im on a early(?) 2007 macbook pro (bought it in June i think so which ever version that makes it)

It is the laptop screen that is doing this and the problem was still here with 3.0, I was hoping 3.1 would fix it. I had bootcamp running fine a few days ago but got a new hard drive and had to reinstall everything

When I go to screen resolution display it says “mobile pc display.” I don’t know if that means anything

This is such a great tutorial…but I don’t have the installation DVD of the OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard…and could I reboot from a Memory stick instead of CD? Thanks

I have a problem with the brightness its so annoying…

my mac isn’t partitioning the disk any ideas…..?

Here are the problems I am having. First, I tried to install the 64-bit Windows 7. That was a fail. It went no where. This walk through should mention that you should only try the 32-bit version of Windows 7 when you install.

Second, I bought the upgrade professional version of windows 7 since I have a valid copy of windows XP Professional (what I used to have installed in bootcamp on my mac before my HD fatally failed). When trying to install the upgrade version of Windows 7 Professional, it will not accept either the product code for the Windows 7 or the product code for my old copy of XP. Both are valid codes since XP used to work and because I just bought an official copy of Windows 7 from MicroCenter so it has to have a valid product code. Until I can get ahold of someone from Microsoft support I am screwed. Sigh.

hi. good day.

thumb ups, your walk-through guide is superb. The thing is, I am able to perform all the mentioned step untill no.28 but then when it try to boot to win 7 it just hang. Oh yeah i tried to boot into OS X, by pressing the option button and it work. but no luck to boot into win7. No BSOD or anything, just black screen after selecting to boot into window 7. im puzzle, i tried to run system restore but still no luck. im guessing there must be conflict with win7 when updating apple software driver. sign~~~ looks like its gonna take me another 2 hour to do fresh win 7 install again.

Thank you so much for your excellent walkthrough. It was much clearer than Apple’s Boot Camp instructions and really saved me at least once. I had a nice easy install and I am not an overly technical person.

5 STAR TUTORIAL
I have a Mac OS X Snow Leopard with Boot Camp enebaling me to use both Mac and Windows with one computer. I updated Windows from XP to 7 on my Mac. When I was done the audio on Windows did not work at all. I found this link and Voula! I have sound. Thank you.

my wifi doesnt work automatically cause it need driver for network controller and ethernet controller…
I tried everything but still dont want to work:S
Help me

Clarification: This is a great walk through of how to set up Windows 7 PREMIUM EDITION… for Ultimate Edition some of the steps are different and also, some of the drivers do not work with Ultimate. Just a heads up…

No wifi too, some help here please

Nice one! Everything worked first time. Got to say its great being able to run the 2 operating systems together. Try getting OSX on a PC to ork :@

Thank you!!! I wish i found this helpful article earlier!!!

Hey,

Thanks a lot, u basically saved my christmas with this tutorial of yours.
Keep up the good work, thumbs up..
Greetings from Finland..

I keep getting hung up at the installing updates section of the install (right after installing features). Anyone know why this could be?

hello everyone,
i am trying to install windows 7 on my Mac but the problem is that after, the 6th step i face with some kind o f error which says: Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.
i really appreciate if any one can help me to solve this error.thank you

Thanks for the post. it helped a lot for installing windows on one of my friends system

Thumbs up……………….

Hey… I have been all night trying to do this until I came across your walkthrough. I am halfway there and seems to be going fine. It is the best walkthrough I have ever had to use for something that is actually quite tricky. Keep up the good work!

Hey, my friend recently got a new macbook pro (4 gigs of ram, 2.4 gigahertz intel core duo processor) and we’ve been trying to instal windows 7 via bootcamp, but have met with pretty limited success. Everything seems to go as this guide says it should up until the initial reboot; we insert the windows 7 disk that came with my new PC and hit the start installation button. It boots up to the windows screen and asks us what language/etc, and then to click the ‘start installation’ button on this next screen, but we have yet to see anything that will let us choose where to instal it. On top of that, when we click the windows 7 instal button on the main screen, it tells us that “Windows has booted from a disk. Please eject the disk, restart, and continue from there.” The only way for us to escape this is to restart the computer and hold alt until it lets us pick which drive to boot off of- The Macintosh HD is the only one available, but once we boot back to the mac OS it’ll let us eject the disk. Of course, we can’t figure out how to get back to the windows installation screen without the disk in the cd drive. The only other thing that I can think of to mention is that the Bootcamp drive did not show up on the desktop, instead it’s in the finder sidebar with the Macintosh HD/iDisk/cds.

Any assistance would be much appreciated- I’m trying to get him on steam with me. :P

Thank you so much for this useful and informative step-by-step guide! I don’t know what I would’ve done without it!!!

How can I install the sound for windows 7 without the DVD of Mac osx

Great walkthrough… really helped me out!

This tutorial worked perfect for me, I’ve been doing research for days about this dang hell bootcamp, now it’s a full success :)

Sorry I must be dum. I tried the above walk through, although the partion was created before I brought my Mac air home, but when it looks for the driver (burned on external CD) it starts the process then goes back to; “cannot find the driver” and so on. After five hours I am tird and ready to give up.

Help

no my Windows 7 installer DVD can’t be recognize! I don’t know the reason

This is a great tutorial. But I have found Parallels to be a much easier solution, and a superior one too. It runs any Windows (I use XP Pro and Win 7 Ultimate) or other OS’s either in a windows on your Mac desktop or actually integrated with your Mac desktop. There is no need to dual boot. Windows is always there when you need it and you can copy back and forth between the OS’s. Also, wired and WiFi work, sound works, printers work, et cetera, right out of the box. No muss, no fuss. I hope this helps. PS. It’s not a great company but they did hit a home run with this one product.

wifi does not automatically work. how about some troubleshooting instructions for getting that to work without first connecting to internet with an ethernet

THANK YOU !!!!!

Thank you so much, It helps me a lot…
without this post…i am nothing..hahaha

thnQ bro

thanks so much, really helped me.

How do I re-adjust the size of the partition for Windows??

I have followed all the steps successfully until I click on the install button and when the win 7 disk boots I get a black screen with a dos prompt. Apple will not help as well a microsoft. Does anyone have a fix for this issue.
IMac 20-inch, Mid 2007
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
2 GB 677 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Os Lion 10.7.1

thank u very very much

This was a great help. Thank-you!

the sreen goes blank after the istallation?

Thanks Sam Hardy! That helped a lot, as my WiFi didn’t work when I installed. Having said that, I’m not using Lion, so I presume it effects a lot more than just Lion users. I just used my Mac OSX install disc to install the windows drivers. Loaded the DVD, ran the setup.exe and it installed EVERYTHING for me. Very easy.

Also, as a note. The Tutorial seems to be based on installing Win7 home or something. I partitioned my drive for 25GB and when I installed Win7 (ultimate) it took up 24GB!! So I only had a gig left. So ultimate takes up a lot more space. I had to delete the partition and start again. Time consuming, but atleast once you do it you realize how easy it is.

To get wireless drivers and update widows, you may need to use an ethernet cable to connect to the internet.

thank you for the advice, I’m downloading bootcamp 3.3

Simply superb guidance. More than perfect. Thank you. Works perfectly.

many thanks . this was very useful

im on expanding windows files level ,, thnx bro keep up >>>

They told me installing windows on my mac would go very easily when using bootcamp… the truth was the opposite :) troubles troubles troubles, until I found this guide,

thank you so much, you saved my mac! LOVE YOU!!

Right click the CD in Computer and select “Eject”.

if i deleted the bootcamp partition and started a new one, what will happen to my computer?

hey  man, i dont have a dvd but a usb drive on which windows setup is. how do i do step 7 with my usb drive?

Very useful the detailed tutorial.  Really appreciate your work.  kumar

I dont have some CD with mac OS X, i didn’t get any when i bought my macbook pro 2011. What should i do?

Thanks for your help!

Thanks a lot, It was great.

Thanks for the supporter !!! Even i can’t find help from the closer friend that I believed. Once thanks man I can do by myself

Glad it helped :)

I hit cancel installation because i forgot to click something and now it is stuck at the “the installation was cancelled” and the cursor just keeps spinning. What do i do?

Can I install Windows 7 on an external drive?

wait so does that mean I don’t need the OSX disc? because i didnt get one with my ’12 MBA

I dont have some CD with mac OS X, i didn’t get any when i bought my macbook pro 2012. What should i do?

Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I’m stuck with it myself at the moment.

Hi.

Thanks for your efforts and detailed info. As per your screenshots we can see that the Aero style graphics are not being enabled even after drivers installation. Could you please provide some inputs on this. Whether installing windows 7 via Bootcamp supports Aero Style features or not.?

Thanks
Shallabh Dixitt

I wish I found these steps before starting. These are so much more clear & all in one place. Very helpful.

Hi Guys, I have a Retina MP 2013 edition. How would this work if I have no CD drive and no install CD of Mavericks?? Also, I have a Windows 7 installation CD for PC will this work? Great instructions, I’m eager to get started!!

Windows 7 64 bootcamp black screen good i got it

Dude, I have a Macbook 1st generation (early 2008), installed Windows 7 Ultimate and drivers refuse to install, but Aero works from the start! :|

Live with it because my Boot Camp drivers won’t install but I’M FINE

Just use an external mouse if you want to right-click…

Recently, I installed windows 7 profession on my Mac using bootcamp, Where I bought product key from ODosta Store, But I could not use as it was oem, I contacted their support team, where they told me that I’ve to buy their fpp license to activate my OS, but it was costly, So please tell me, is there any other cheap solution.