Boot camp drivers won't install from Disk

I have an old MacBook running Snow Leopard (the original OS was Leopard), and I recently installed windows 7 successfully through Boot Camp. When I went to install the boot camp drivers, neither the Leopard or the Snow Leopard disks worked. I got an error message that read something about how "64 bit is not supported by this platform." Is there any way to get the drivers outside of the disks, or am I doing something wrong?

you got it installed, just naviagate to the folder with the BOOTCAMP64.msi and run that, use Admin Privilege, and use "Troubleshoot Compatibility Mode" to run it.
It isn't you, it is Apple's idea of supported vs unsupported for "older" Intel Macs.

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Boot Camp drivers won't install correctly.

Greetings. Recently I formatted the XP partition on my Mac, in order to do a clean installation of windows. I did everything as explained in the guide, using the Boot Camp assistant and so forth. After the installation completed, I inserted my Leopard DVD and installed the appropriate drivers. Although the message declared that everything went smoothly, the only thing I could find that was installed correctly were only the audio drivers - no video drivers, no ethernet, wireless, nothing else. I repeated the whole process (including reinstalling XP) with the same results. Any suggestions?

You will need to reinstall Windows and use the boot camp drivers that came with your machine. Do not use previous boot camp drivers or the boot camp drivers on the Leopard disk. I made the same mistake with my MacBook Pro, I installed boot camp drivers first from a CD copy, them from Leopard and had the same issues as yourself. Then I installed boot camp from the MacBook Pro DVD that came with the MBP and most of it installed. However, not all was working properly. I wiped the boot camp p[artition and reinstalled XP and used the boot camp drivers that came with the MBP and everything worked smoothly. I think the boot camp drivers are specific to a machine, at least in the case of this MBP.

Boot Camp drivers won't install

Okay, I have tried everything. I followed the directions. Created a FAT 32 32GB partition. Loaded XP and it installed. Loaded the Leopard disc that came with my new MacBook Pro. Looks like they are installing, then there is the blue screen with with lettering and it's gone in a flash before I can read it. The next thing I see is a message indicating that there was a serious error and it list some windows install fill and asks if I want to try again. I do and the same message is there. Windows is installed and works fine but there is no Boot Camp tray item. I also tried to repair the Boot Camp drivers but that doesn't work either! Can someone please help me?

Hi,
i had exactly the same problem and been browsing galores of forums with no real answer.
it seemed though that a lot of people had issues with the bluetooth driver and i believe that is precisely the problem with this.
Here is what i did and what fixed the issue (my XP is running flawlessly now on my iMac):
- install XP SP2, do all the updates (you might have to connect with a cable LAN, since the wireless might not work because of the drivers (dont worry, we fix this in a minute)
- copy the Bootcamp Drivers folder from your Mac OS CD to the C: harddrive (this is neccessary so you can continue with the next step)
- here comes the magic part: DELETE the file BroadcomInstaller.exe from the Bootcamp Drivers/Drivers directory (the one you just copied to the C: drive)
- NOW run setup.exe in the Bootcamp Drivers directory
this basically installed everything except the BT drivers to my system
ONLY NOW can you run the bootcamp update (to be found here: http://support.apple.com/downloads/BootCamp_Update_2_1_for_WindowsXP)
Before 2.0 version of bootcamp is installed this update wont run.
the nice thing is, running the update actually fixed also the BT on my iMac, so now everything works as it should.
hope this helps.
K.

Boot Camp drivers won't install on Windows 7

I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro (10.10.2 Yosemite), and just installed Windows 7 (64-bit) via Boot Camp. It works fine but I am unable to install any of the drivers (version 5.1.5621). I put them on a flash drive but when I open Drivers/Apple/BootCamp, it says the program can not be run, check your bit version for compatibility (something like that)... I then try the troubleshoot way but this is what happens-
Thanks for the help.

Please verify that you have the correct drivers using System requirements to install Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp - Apple Support and install or repair using setup.exe in the BC folder.

Windows Boot camp drivers won't install

So I'm trying to put windows on my mac again, for the fifth time since windows won't let me activate it anymore. Everything goes fine and it installs and I put the Mac os x install disc 1 in to install the drivers. It loads up and goes through the process of installing the drivers. Once its down it asks me to restart the computer which I do. Once I get in however, none of the drivers are installed like nothing ever happened. I can tell because I can't get internet and the trackpad won't work properly. The boot camp faq shows up and another window to update something shows up but it need the internet to work. I go and try to repair the drivers and it runs its course, restarts and still nothing! No drivers. I've tried deleting the drivers and reinstalling them, removing the partition and reinstalling but nothing is working. I've gotten the drivers just fine before but now they just won't install. I've updated my mac from 10.6.4 to 10.6.7 so can that be the problem? Its the only thing I did different.

I'm at my office at the moment and I don't have the disc to view. Tell me, have you found the drivers folder? You can select any driver and it should automatically open boot camp and install all "Apple Drivers" while in windows mode. Then after installing bootcamp, you can install Apple updater. I'm adding more than I should because I don't know how far along you are- if you look around the clock area in windows, you should see a boot camp icon; is it there?
Send me a screen shot with your disc open and I can maybe help you from there. [email protected] Otherwise, I will look at the direct path this evening and post the info here.

Win 7 in Boot Camp: Drivers will not install from snow leopard cd.

I have a early 2011 Macbook Pro (8,1). I am loading Windows 7 with Boot Camp, but cannot get any of the drivers to install. (ethernet, video, etc)
I have tried both the Snow Leopard cd (I think it's Boot Camp 3.2?), and also downloading drivers online, neither work. I have tried reformatting/reinstalling, and even tried loading a old copy of XP and I had the exact same problem there too.
What happens: I install the drivers successfully, restart, and nothing has changed. I can see the drivers installed in the programs list (when I go to "uninstall programs") but if I go to Device Manager all of the devices (ethernet, video, etc) show a yellow triangle and say they need drivers! It's like I'm installing the wrong drivers or something.
I can't find any other posts with a problem like this, I have been working on this forever and am kind of at my wits end. Any ideas??

Don't believe what Apple posts.
If you don't have EFI64 like 2008 and later Mac Pro, then you will run into a hurdle and have to modify the Windows DVD to get it to boot and install.
To Apple, and due to the non-standard way they implemented UEFI, and that ours (2006/7 Mac Pro) all there was that we got was the 2005 EFI32 (affects our choices in graphics cards too).
I installed 32-bit, then installed 64-bit on another partition.
The DVD can be modified, from Windows, most easy method would be from any of the VMs like VirtualBox. Then use one of the 2-3 Imgburn or other tricks mentioned online (search for "Jowie" and search for the "Select CD-ROM" error you get trying to boot).
FAQ, Updates, etc http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
System Requirements: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1899
Windows 7 FAQ: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3986
List 64-bit Compatible: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846
Boot Camp 64-bit 3.1 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL979
Boot Camp Vista Upgrade Utility http://support.apple.com/kb/DL977

I have an older Mac Pro (2006). I want to install Boot Camp and Windows. I have installrg a purchased Snow Leapord on the machine. To install Windows, am I limited to Windows 7? And where are the Windows 7/Boot Camp Drivers? On the OS disk? Download? Tha

I have an older Mac Pro (2006). I want to install Boot Camp and Windows. I have installed a boxed Snow Leapord on the machine. And it says the download of the Boot camp drivers cannot continue because they are not available. But at that point I have not inserted a windows disk, so how does it know i have XP?
So it appears I am limited to Windows 7? And where are the Windows 7/Boot Camp Drivers? On the OS disk?
Finally, since I have necer considered Windows 7 before, I assume there are no compatability issues with mainstream applications that were running in XP?
Thank you.

You're welcome
Just remember to reformat the partition (bootcamp partition) to NTFS with the windows installer, ensure to pick the correct partition.

Installed XP; Boot Camp drivers won't work.

Everything has run relatively smoothly up until i have to install the mac drivers on XP.
I installed them successfully using a leopard disk, and then the computer restarts.
Briefly before shutting down, a blue screen shows up for about one second with a bunch of data; something about an information dump (doesn't seem too out of the ordinary, but I'm mentioning it just in case).
Then the computer restarts into windows, and says it has to perform a disk check or something... it says "Press any key to skip," yet at this point not a single key on my keyboard works, so i can't skip this step.
Then it goes through a bunch of diagnostics; windows boots up and i get an error report that says software is trying to access potentially personal information, such as wi-fi rights, and other things boot camp is supposed to take control of in order to make them function.
The next step in the installation, "After your computer restarts, follow the instructions in the Found New Hardware Wizard to update your software drivers (windows XP only)," never shows up
I presume windows thinks that the boot camp drivers are a virus, and thus won't let me install them.
I do not, however, know how to fix this.
Can anyone help ??????

I had problems with the ethernet and sound drivers following the most recent bootcamp update, which installed to deal with the trackpad issues that I was having. A pretty big mess, and the guy at the Geniius bar was very nice about saying he couldn't help.
I have discovered a repeatable problem with the update. If I completely uninstall bootcamp, and reinstall from the CD before restart, the sound an ethernet work again. I would be afraid that nothing would work (like the CD rom) if I restarted in windows sans drivers. Repairing/updating from the most current update (2.1.1 (?)) available kills both sound and wired ethernet. Repeat the procedure, and everything is fine again.
Interestingly enough, the trackpad issues seem to not have reappeared.
Opinion: the 2.1.1 bootcamp update is a downdate for my new macbook, and if I have any more issues like this that kill several days, apple is going to get it back. "It just works" clearly doesn't apply to mac running windows, and for those of us who have no choice, for whatever reason, that may continue to mean no apple.
For what it's worth, one of the guys at the genius bar said a lot of his hardware didn't work in windows either. I predict an update in the future. I hope all of this gets resolved, because there's a lot to like about the mac, but the whole non-support of windows thing is a bummer and could be a showstopper for a lot of people, despite the fact that bc is advertised as a reason to switch.

Boot Camp partition won't mount in Disk Utility all of a sudden

I used to have a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition set-up and working perfectly.
Turned on my 2009 Mac Mini today and couldn't see it in the Finder. Opened Disk Utility, it was there, but grayed out. Right clicked and selected "Mount BOOTCAMP", got "mount failed"
Tried verifying and repairing disk, but no joy. So I removed the boot camp partition using Boot Camp Assistant and started again. Went fine, installed Windows 7 fine.
Booted back into Snow Leopard so I could unpair my bluetooth keyboard (I've found that I can only set-up the bluetooth keyboard in Windows 7 if I unpair it in OSX first). Again, Boot Camp partition doesn't show in the finder, and is grayed out in Disk Utility.
I googled this problem, and found a few people mentioning that NTFS drivers in OSX (e.g. MacFUSE, paragon etc) can cause issues because they conflict with Snow Leopard's own NTFS driver. I did have MacFUSE installed, so I removed it, but it didn't seem to change anything.
Any suggestions?

solution!
install NTFS-3G (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/)
open disk utility and mount your greyed out partition (NTFS-3G will mount it)
unmount it
open system preferences, go to tuxera NTFS pref, second tab (Volumes)
make sure your windows 7 partition is selected from drop down menu then click "disable tuxera NTFS"
at this point i rebooted into windows, then rebooted back into snow leopard. my windows partition was once again mounted and visible in Finder
hope this works for you guys!
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No Boot Camp Drivers found on new imac disk #1 ???

Installed 10.5 on new imac 2.4 GHZ with no problems. Updated to 10.5.1. Started Boot Camp install. When directed Installed Vista Ultimate with no problem. When directed Inserted imac disk #1 to install Drivers - showed zero(0) on disk. Inserted another CD and it loaded as normal. Re-inserted imac disk 1, still 0 on disk. Disk shows up on drive. Click on disk to open - 0 on disk. Set auto run - 0 on disk. No warning notices from Vista. Vista boots normal. 10.5 boots normal. Reinserted disk in Vista - no drivers - 0 on disk. Inserted disk #1 with 10.5 running - disk has normal install applications for imac(10.4). While in Mac OS did a search on disk # 1 for "setup.exe" - nothing found. Has anyone come across anything like this??

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Boot Camp - Windows won't install

Hi,
I'm running OS X 10.10.2 on my iMac 7.1 (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM). On completion of Boot Camp partition Windows 7 DVD won't install - I get a black screen prompting me to select boot mode. However, keyboard and mouse are disconnected at this stage leaving me powerless to do anything. There's nothing wrong with the Windows 7 DVD, I might add - installs perfectly when running Parallels Desktop 10/Parallels virtual machine. Can anyone tell me, how to resolve this annoying issue?
Regards missil1

missil1 wrote:
Hi CellarDwellr,
Thanks for your answer.
Although my install DVD does indeed bear the "OEM" mark, I don't think the "OEM" is the root of the problem, as the DVD installed perfectly on my iMac by means of Parallels Desktop 10. Furthermore, I made a perfect and smooth installation of Windows Vista (OEM DVD) on my iMac some years ago by means of Boot Camp (running Snow Leopard at that time).
Hence, I'm inclined to suspect this to be an OS X issue rather than anything else.
Finally, I did comply with the Boot Camp manual on both occasions.
Regards missil1
You can't just compare your windows 7 oem to your old windows vista oem. There are many - probably hundreds - of oem versions out there. You probably have a limited notion of what "oem" stands for. An OEM version of Windows is a special version for a specific computer or models of computers and none of them are for Apple. Dell or HP might sell OEM versions of windows, tailor made to work with their models of computer. Which means they preinstall drivers specific for, say, a Dell Studio laptop. Often they will also force a partitioning scheme on a computer's harddrive as well. If it worked in Parallels, you were lucky.
If you want to try Boot Camp again, use Boot Camp-assistant to delete your Boot Camp partition and start over.

Photoshop CS3 won't install from disk

I have an HP with Windows XP service pack 2 OS. Exceeds all of the requirements to run CS3. Just purchased CS3. When I install the DVD, it will not launch. When I try and run setup from the Adobe CS3 folder, I get an error message as follows; Adobe CS3\setup.exe is not a valid win32 application. This DVD is marked Windows. So I'm dead in the water, can't get out of the gate.
Anyone have some ideas ?

ACTUALLY:
This Ahmbed file came WITH the file I downloaded here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?loc=en%5Fus&product=indesign
The archive file, called
ADBEPHSPCS3_WWE.exe is 463 MB->
By running the EXE the installer package Extracts the CS3 Installer to where you point it on your hard drive:
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Folder PATH listing for volume VistS__t-PC
Volume serial number is 0015F688 88B7:8570
C:.
└───Adobe CS3
│ Ahmbed.gz
│ Setup.exe
│ WinBootstrapper.msi
>>>SNIP<<<<br />
├───payloads
└───resources
└───common
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localization.js
silentWorkflow.js
utils.js
C:\DOWNLOAD\Adobe CS3\Photoshop>
Note that if I got this in a Windows version straight from ADOBE- And you guys have it in the MAC version...
And I know where i got it, I downloaded the TRIAL version of CS3 from Adobe. THIS FILE is part of the Adobe Package. DON'T KNOW what it is, but certainly, if you don't like it, you can delete it, like I did, with no Ill effects.
If it IS a virus however, then someone at ADOBE put this thing right into the package.
IT IS NOT A CRACK. A Crack for CS3 is the entire Photoshop.exe file, 43 Megabytes- It is dropped into the Photoshop directory before initially running any part of CS3, then when Photosho.exe is run, it inserts a serial number and activates it, bypassing the flexLM licence manager.
THAT is how a Photochop crack works, one of the cracks I have seen- Others are simply Keygens, like CS2, you perform a Phone Activation, enter the Acvitation code into the keygen, and it spits out the answer code.
THIS little POS file however, is NOT a keygenm and it is NOT an exe that can be dropped into a folder, it is simply extra code left over from installing CS3, and Adobe made it.
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I have Lion installed with no problems. When I finally decided I needed a windows partition on 2011 MackBook Pro, bootcamp assistant returns - after 45 minutes - a message that states that windows compatibility software cannot be installed

I am having the exact same problem.
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Trouble installing Boot Camp drivers ????????

Hello,
I have got as far as installing Windows XP on my new MacBook and now I am supposed to be installing the Apple Boot Camp drivers. I have 2 disks that came with my MacBook:
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I have tried inserting both of those disks, however, neither of them have the setup.exe file and it appears missing. What am I doing wrong? I cannot seem to find the file, however, I need to be able to install the drivers. Please help. Thanks!

shmootz wrote:
No, it still doesn't work. I have a program called "MacDrive" running (a program that lets you access the Mac OS X partition). Maybe that could be the problem. The only problem is that I cannot seem to quit the program to test it. I think that MacDrive could be the problem ????
Most likely that's the problem.
See here for a solution: http://assist.mediafour.com/index.php?a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&i=55
Hope it helps
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I successfully installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 on my new Mac Mini. The display worked without issue in XP at this point.
After doing this, I proceeded to install the boot camp drivers. They installed and automatically rebooted the machine.
After reboot, Windows XP no longer has a functioning display. The display is a black screen and eventually the monitor shuts off.
Things I've tried:
- Reset PRAM
- Reset SMC
- Tried both Mini DisplayPort and HDMI connections to connect to the HDMI port on the monitor
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