Somewhat similar to the walkthrough (and now the ), this tutorial will take you every step of the way through installing Microsoft Windows 7 on your Intel Mac (running 10.5 or later), using Boot Camp. Note: if you’d rather not dual boot OS X and Windows 7, you can always. To install Windows 7 on your Mac using Boot Camp you will need the following:.

All firmware updates installed on your Mac (use Apple Button - Software Update to check). A Windows 7 installation DVD. Your OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard installation DVD. Around 30GB of empty hard drive space on your Mac. You can probably get away allocating less than 30GB to Windows 7, but it will leave very little room to install anything in Windows. An hour if all goes well, up to 5 hours if not. Though not absolutely required, it’s a VERY good idea to have a complete and up to date Time Machine backup of OS X – it really came in handy for me.

Because part of the process involves partitioning your drive, there’s always the distinct chance something will go wrong and everything will be wiped out. Patience, possibly a great deal of it. Having a book handy will also help kill time during the partitioning, installing etc).

Installing Windows 7 via Boot Camp. Here goes.

First thing – close absolutely every open program you can. That includes those things running in the Apple Menu that you always forget about. Don’t worry about killing the Dock or Dashboard – having those running is fine. Now open a Finder and navigate to Applications - Utilities and double-click Boot Camp Assistant. Click Continue on the initial Introduction screen.

Ignore the fact that it doesn’t mention Windows 7 as a possible OS to install. Now you have to decide how much space you want to allocate to Windows 7. You might be able to get away with going as low as 10GB, but I would highly advise against it. You’ll have almost no space left over to install software, and your page file in Windows might cause frequent crashes. I opted for 20GB, which left me with just a bit over 16GB to use after installing Windows 7. To change the amount of space to dedicate to Windows 7, click the small divider between Mac OS X and Windows, and drag it to the left. Once you’ve determined how much space you want to allocate to Windows 7, click the Partition button.

The partitioning itself doesn’t take particularly long. If you receive an error, proceed to of the “How to install Vista with Boot Camp” tutorial. It provides all the troubleshooting info you need to resolve partitioning issues.

Once you’ve cleared up any problems, or if everything just goes smoothly, proceed with the next step in this tutorial. Once completed you’ll notice a new BOOTCAMP drive on your desktop. Now insert your Windows 7 DVD and click the Start Installation button. Your Mac will restart, and Windows 7 will boot.

You’ll be prompted with a window asking you which partition you want to install Windows on. Select the one with BOOTCAMP in the Name column.

Selecting anything else may wipe out OS X or cause serious problems. Then select the Drive options (advanced) link. With the BOOTCAMP volume still selected, click the Format link.

And Windows 7 will begin to install. It’s a fairly boring process, so you may want to grab yourself a cup of coffee or your beverage of choice. But don’t go too far away, because when your system reboots, you’ll need to remove the Windows 7 DVD. With the Windows 7 DVD removed, your Mac will automatically boot back into Windows 7, and the installation will complete. You’ll be prompted to select your language, keyboard layout etc. The rest of the Windows 7 installation process is very straight forward.

Once the installation has completed and your Mac has restarted again, you’ll be able to use Windows 7. WiFi will work immediately (no drivers to install) so connect to the Internet. Windows 7 will then begin to download updates, including the proper video card driver. Let it do its thing. Once completed, you’ll be prompted to reboot yet again. Once Windows 7 boots back up again, you’ll notice the resolution is much better, and you can enable the advanced graphics features. But if you check for sound, you’ll notice there are no sound drivers installed.

Insert your OS X Leopard (or Snow Leopard) DVD. When prompted, select Run setup.exe.

Note: If you’re using Snow Leopard and a message pops up saying “Remote Install Mac OS X”, close that window and eject the CD. Put the CD in again and this time select “Open folder to view files”, navigate to the Bootcamp folder, and run setup.exe. The Boot Camp installer will launch. Click Next to begin. Select I accept the terms in the license agreement and then click Next again. Make sure that Apple Software Update for Windows is checked, and click Install. The Boot Camp installer will do its thing, and install all the required drivers.

Notifications will pop up with each driver that gets installed. Once completed, click Finish. And yet again you’ll be prompted to reboot. Remove your OS X Leopard DVD from the drive, and click Yes to restart. At this point most of the hardware on your Mac should be working in Windows. However, some iMacs and MacBook Pro’s will have to update to the 3.1 version of Boot Camp for Windows.

To do so, just follow the few steps in. Note: If you still have problems with sound not working, you’ll need to install the Realtek drivers. Will explain what to do. That’s it, you’re done! When your Mac boots, hold down the Option key to select which Operating System you want to boot into. @Michael: Just realized I misspoke (or mis-typed?).

It’s actually Boot Camp Assistant that will work for this. Open it up like you originally do when creating the Windows partition, only this time, you’ve got the option to erase it. It’ll remove the sucker and you’ll have a single-partition OS X drive again.

Check it out. Finder Applications Utilities Boot Camp Assistant. Click Continue at the first screen. Make sure ‘Create or remove a Windows partition’ is selected, then click continue once more. It’ll give you a screen showing that your drive will be formatted as a single partition, yay! Click Restore. Enter your password when prompted, and watch BCA do its thing.

As always, I highly recommend backing up your OS X partition before doing this. While it isn’t likely, there’s always a chance that something will go horribly wrong and you’ll need to do a restore.

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve removed several partitions this way with no problems. Hope this helps! @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? Paul, I had the same problem.

Even though I installed the Windows drivers from my Leopard disk, my 24″ iMac would not play any sounds. The solution was to download and install the latest RealTek driver (2.16) which I found on. You need to click the “High Definition Audio Codecs (Software)” link and click Accept on the next screen. I downloaded the executable.

Please note that the vendors site is very slow so the download may take a while. After installing this the sounds starting working for me right away. 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.

Videoblend for mac review. Solutions: 1> A primary cause for reduction in video quality is tampering with the default settings of your converter. Therefore the video ends up in a very poor quality and in some instances, the clip may be totally blurred rendering it useless. The moment you interfere with the frame rate, the resolution is ultimately compromised. Where possible, do not change the settings that you are unsure of. 2> Do not compress files You can also opt for non-compressed files.

Otherwise, remarkably quick. Got Office03 installed as well, making the whole think pretty work-compatible. @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. I’m new to macs (new Macbook aluminum 2.4 ghz, 4 gb ram, 128 SSD) and it doesn’t recognize the DVD file that I’ve burned.

I downloaded the windows 7 off the Microsoft site so I’m pretty sure it would be legit. I downloaded the file to my desktop and then when I inserted the blank DVD into my computer it allowed me to open the DVD.

I then dragged the.iso file into the DVD and clicked “Burn” from there. Everything copied fine. As soon I click on the “Start Installation” button it says it doesn’t recognize the file on the DVD. To those that are trying to install Win7beta1 through bootcamp on there Mac and getting the message “1. Choose a CDROM boot option” and not able to choose either, the problem may be with your USB hardware. I did an upgrade of Vista 64 bit within the bootcamp partition and the first thing that happens is a compatiblility check. A couple of things were noted.

Kaspersky 7 can not be on the system and needed to be removed before the upgrade would start. There was a note about USB problems and check for Web updates on the manufacturers site after the install. Windows Mail would not work. I removed Kaspersky and tried again, getting the later 2 warnings again. This time the installation went ahead. It took a couple of hours to upgrade and move all the files. On first boot all the hardware was recognized and installed except for my Matshita DVD.

Stange because all the other USB devices worked. Keyboard, Mouse, Memory sticks, etc.

There were no drivers on the web to correct this problem. In Vista if you look at the the USB Devices the Matshita DVD is recognized as a USB drive. I tried a clean install and got the same message ” 1.

There are no devices listed in option 1. And I couldn’t get my keyboard to work.

So unless MS or Apple are willing to supply those needed drivers we may be out of luck testing Beta 1 on our Macs through Bootcamp at least. Ross, I have a 1st gen iMac Aluminum 24″ 2.8ghz proc. I re-ran the installation setup again to get the “Compatibility Check” warning log. The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task, and then restart the upgrade to continue.

For these items, make the following changes: Uninstall these programs. Open Control Panel and search for “uninstall a program”.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Upgrading Windows will affect the following devices and/or programs: These devices might not work properly after the upgrade. After the upgrade completes, check Windows Update for updated drivers or go to the device manufacturer’s website. Kernel USB Software Bus by TCP The Kernel USB Software Bus by TCP is what seems to be the problem.

As I was saying before I can upgrade to Windows 7 by removing Kaspersky but I will not see my Matshita DVD-R UJ-85J ATA Device when the installation is complete and if I try to do a clean install from Boot Camp on a freshly made partition the Computer just hangs at the pre installation screen(First boot after boot camp makes the partition, 1. 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.

Choose.” error. Reading on another site, the way I needed to install Win7 was from within Vista but selecting a custom(Clean) install. 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 also, I looked at the error message more carefully and it says those applications did not run because they are old and did not install properly. Trying to run them does nothing at all. The only application that does run in the boot camp installer, which seems to operate properly.

Another error which has come up, which is slightly annoying, is that now whenever I switch back to the mac, the clock gets set 5 hours earlier than it should be. I looked around on the web and saw that this error has come up for other users, so I made sure that on windows and on the mac os side I was synchronizing with the same time server (time.nist.gov in this case).

That doesn’t seem to fix the problem. So i manually set the time on the mac side, which worked, until i ran windows then came back, at which point it was 5 hours too early again. It is properly set for my time zone. I don’t know how to work around this bug.

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? 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. 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! @Da9l The MultiTouch gestures supported under MacOS are not supported under Windows. Neither Windows XP or Vista nor Windows 7. There ist just the option to emulate the right click. To get the drivers for the MultiTouch trackpad working, install them as mentioned above and update them via the Apple Software Updater.

Other things are not supported as far as I know. Besides I have to say that any version of Windows works best on the MacBook with an external mouse. Does anybody have better experiences? @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. Just a quick note on my experience Downloaded the iso, burnt it using disk utility, followed these instructions, and everything works perfectly. No weird heating issues, sound works, as does trackpad (though I wish the two hand scrolling was a little less sensitive and a lot more smooth, but even Mac programs like Camino often can’t get it as smooth as it should be), keyboard lighting, etc.

I’m back in OSX now, as I much prefer the interface and “feel” of the OS, though Windows 7 is pretty nice from what I’ve seen. The only time I see myself using Windows is when I’d like to play a game that Crossover Mac doesn’t work with.

I followed your instructions. I now have an iMac that is dual-boot (OSX and Win7). Only problem is when I choose to boot into Windows 7 the EFI boot manager seems to hang for about 2 minutes, apparently doing nothing. After than Win7 starts up rather quickly.

It’s definitely something to do with the EFI boot manager/loader, and not Windows 7. This is very annoying for me as I am often switching between OSX and Windows (and NO!, I can’t use a VM because I need access to hardware (web cams, USB ports, scanners etc). I should mention that both OSX and Vista64 (when I was dual booting with Vista 64) worked really well – either would boot up in less than 30 seconds. Has anyone managed to solve the slow boot time problem? @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! 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. To BSOD people: I had this problem trying to install 32-bit Win7 on my iMac 6,1 2.16Ghz with GeForce 7300 GT on a 24″.

Specifically, I would get BSOD during the install with a 10sec memory dump showing an error with nvlddmkm.sys with code 116. Tried to boot Win7 in safe mode would not complete the install.

So I booted to Mac and finished install using VMWare, uninstalled the graphics drivers from the Windows Device Manager so that it used just VGA drivers, then booted into Win7. From here I was able to run Win7 in low resolution but at least internet worked. I installed Nvidia’s Win7 185.85 WHQL drivers, rebooted, and got BSOD. Back to safe mode and tried XP 181.22 WHQL someone suggested and still BSOD.

Wifi Driver For Windows 7

Then I tried Vista 169.25 Forceware and it finally worked, however, I still have reliability problems. I left it overnight and found a BSOD with a new error so it seems to be specifically Nvidia driver issues. Anyone else with any thoughts on Nvidia drivers? Mac newbie here, would appreciate some help on this: Had some issues trying to follow the steps above, and can’t figure them out. When starting the installation after doing steps 1 through 8, it completely skips steps 9 and outward, jumping right to the language/keyboard setup described in step 13. It asks for drivers, but I’m not even able to eject the W7 dvd After trying a couple of times (restarting from scratch), I just removed the partition and gave up. When I started my Mac today, it said “No boot disk (or device??) found.”, so I had to restart again with the Option key pressed.

I then got only the Macintosh HD option. So, two questions: 1. Anyone know why it happens as described above when I try to install? Is it possible that I have messed up my Mac OS X installation? Not too worried as I have a TM back up and have been considering a clean install anyway BTW, I have a early 2009 iMAC, 3,06GHz, 4GB RAM, ATI. I have the same situation as Roger RS #135. My computer a early 2009 Mac Book Pro.

Step 9 never happens. A black screen with “loading files” appears and the disc is read. Then a screen called “Insatll Windows” asks for language, Time etc. The only way I can get the disc out of the drive is to reboot and press the eject button at the after the chimes. What do I have to do to get to step 9? I couldn’t get the burn disc to be recognized during installation, so I used the disc utility instead of just sticking in burn folder and selecting burn. 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?

Thought I’d continue this horrid trail of Windows 7 issues, via bootcamp Gaming issues: I’ve just spent all day installing windows 7 and games on my macbook pro (2009 unibody) within bootcamp- only to come to this barrier telling me that Direct X (when trying to run Call of Duty 4) has encountered an “unrecoverable error”. My audio is fine. None of my games within Steam want to load either. I’m wondering, is it something to do with Windows drivers (possibly video, heck, I really don’t know) or my Mac? Or do none of you game on a mac?:l. 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 (. Troubleshooting Guide To Boot Camp 2.1 ————————————— 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 —————————- 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 —————————— 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 (v6.) Note (.) ——— 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 —————– Back lighting of keyboard is not working in XP. Problems Fixed By Doing These Updates ————————————– Bootcamp KbdMgr.exe Latency Problems Slowing Your XP —————————————————– 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! 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 —————— 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 BCMWL5.SYS Sound Problems ————— 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 BCMWL5.SYS. Apple Touch Pad Problems ————————- 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. ——————————————————————– 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.

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

——————————————————————– 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. ——————————————————————– 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.

——————————————————————– 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. 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, 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. Recently bought like this past month, 17″ macbook pro 4gb ram, 500gb hard drive. Just switched over from PC to MAC.

I also bought a retailed full version of Windows 7 Ultimate that comes with the 32-bit and 64-bit DVDs. I partition my hard drive for 150GB and then put the 64-bit windows 7 dvd in and clicked start installation. The superdrive spins up for a bit and the mouse pointer spins, the superdrive slows down as if its stop spinning and the mouse pointer continues to spin as if it is doing something. I waited for some time and nothing changes. I called Apple support and they said it wont install because the update for bootcamp hasnt came out yet to support windows 7. That i would have to wait some time untill the end of the year to get it. I dont understand how they have all these how to install windows 7 and all these forums of people installing windows 7 via bootcamp, when Apple is saying its impossible.

Im confused.lol.help? Just installed Windows 7 4-bit on a brand new iMac 24″ with 3.06 GHZ processor and 500 GB HD running Snow Leopard. Absolutely no problems. Installation took a while. Gave the Win 7 partition 300 GB. The only thing I noticed was the first few times I rebooted the system came back up in Windows 7. But recently it only comes up in Leopard and when I go to System Preferences/Startup Disk it does not see the Windows 7 Partition.

If I hold down the Option key at boot up I get the disk option start up window and can choose Windows 7 a minor inconvenience unless i forget to hold down the key. I was just wondering why it worked for a while and then stopped working. Ran Disk Warrior 4.2 but didn’t fix it.

Guess I will have to live with it since it is running so nice. Just hope it is not the beginning of possible problems down the road. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?

I have installed Windows 7 into my new MacBook by following your instruction. Windows 7 installed successfully and I have also installed the boot camp and it runs smoothly. However, the wifi disappear and not even in the device manager, can you advise how can I get back my wifi? (the wifi works perfectly when the Macbook runs in OS X) I have checked with the retailer and he told me the current Mac OS X doesn’t support Windows 7 and that’s why some drivers won’t be detected. By the way, I can only connect to internet via LAN cable.

@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!

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. 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! Windows 7 install on BootCamp was simple but I have 3 problems: 1) login to Active Directory Network – possible but manual on each login; 2) remote login over VPN using RDC – so far not even possible.

It never sees my IP address on VPN software; and 3) ODBC System DSNs set up and test OK but not accessible in Crystal Reports. Is there something in Windows 7 (permissions) that prevents my machine from connecting in these 3 areas (LAN, VPN & ODBC)? I have no problem connecting seemlessly in all 3 of these areas on XP Pro Service Pack 3 with BootCamp on my older MacBook. 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. 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. Russ – I hadn’t heard of that one until today. The other folks having the same problem – do they have the exact same model MBP as you?

I used my OLD MBP to write that tutorial, and my new MBP has Win7 running on it with no problems. Well, my problem is that I HATE the unibody trackpad period – in Win or OS X. I suppose it’s just something I’ll eventually get used to. Doesn’t mean I have to like it tho:) Anyway – as for your problem. I’ll look into it, but it sound like you have too.

If you can comment back here w/ the exact model you have that would be helpful. 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. 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.

This process worked great for me. It failed the first time as the mouse would not work but I had a spare mouse and plugged it in and was able to click accept the rules and regulations and the process went as described. I did have a little trouble, the (option key at restart) did not work and pondered for 15 minutes as to how to switch back and forth out of MacIntosh but went to system preference’s and found boot camp and it gave me the option’s I needed. Great help and the only thing that does not work is the MacIntosh Miracle mouse. All other drivers work great and I actually prefer the wireless Microsoft Mouse I used to get Windows to work better than the Magic Mouse but I do have a TrackPad I much prefer for the MacIntosh side of the partition. Thanks a lot. 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. Good post, in the process of doing this now, going well for now. But experienced a few caveats.

My advices are: -Use a Windows 7 32 bit installation dvd. Tried the 64 bit version and the mac (an iMac) just wouldn’t boot it. I’ve read about some workarounds pertaining to alter the iso image with some command line tools, but since time is an issue here, I didn’t experience with that. The 32 bit win7 worked fine.Not related to this guide in itself, but burned a faulty copy of the win7 32 bit installation disk first, causing a hang at the “expanding windows files” stage of the installation process.

Recreated the image (by making an iso from the dvd, then reburning that iso to a new dvd) with ImgBurn (on another Windows machine) and voila. The point is, don’t always trust your regular dvd/cd burner programs to burn appropriate, bootable dvd’s from iso files. 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.

It’s not a great company but they did hit a home run with this one product. Awesome guide, worked great for me except i had the ‘wifi’ problem too.+.+.+.

LION USER’S.+.+.+. Once Windows 7 re-boots itself and logs you back in (when the screen still has bad resolution) you need to manually eject the Installation CD if you haven’t already. (eject button doesn’t work as the Apple keyboard has yet to be configured). Then insert your ‘Hard Disk Partition Windows Setting Software” that you burned to a CD/DVD/USB device and it will auto-run.

Click OK and let it do its thing Once complete, do another re-boot and as outlined above the resolution will change and the ‘wifi’ & ‘ethernet’ will work and any updates needed will start. This step (for users who brought the mac with Lion already installed) will automatically do all the sound drivers etc that required the SL disc in the steps mentioned above. Problem solved and Windows 7 will be properly installed. 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. 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.

You can creat a bootable USB using bootcamp assistant. I will recommend to go for USB3.0 32 GB at least or get ready for a real long time( don’t get frustrated when it seems nothing is happening, believe me the process id still running ) after the USB had been successfully created the mac will restart automatically, but if u see an error” No bootmedia ( or something like that)” restart mac and keep on pressing ALT-Option key until u see three drives (1-Mac, 2-Windows, 3-EFI boot) select WINDOWS and here you go:).