Boot Camp, Win7 x64 and Bitlocker

Has anyone successfully installed Win7 x64 via Boot Camp and enabled BitLocker? If you have how did you do it?
Thanks,
SMF

repoman_1966,
That answers one question ... no TPM ... but according to the bitlocker docs you can, through policy settings, allow bitlocker to use an external USB key instead if a TPM module is not present. This allows bitlocker to work on computers without a TPM. The catch is that the USB port & device must be accessible during the boot process prior to the OS being loaded - something that not all computers are capable of. According to Apple support on Macbooks the USB is available during the boot process but of course they can not confirm that it will work ... they don't support Microsoft products ...;)
I'm looking to see if anyone has actually done it to confirm what the support folks believe will work.
Thanks.

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Stability problems with Win7 x64 and Boot Camp 3.1...

Before I was running win 7 with Boot Camp 3.0 and On top of that I installed my Chipset and Graphics from Nvidias Website. System was running without any major problems.
Now I have win7 and BootCamp 3.1 and the laptop runs like crap... System freezes sometimes only for a minute most of the time I need to hold power button.
The last time I has ScanDisk start on me and start checking. it found about 200 missing files some unindexed and MFT bitmap was repaired...
Do not know why, I'm unable to figure out what was causing that.
Currently I have win7 x86 with bootcamp 3.1 installed and The system works good.
I think there is an issue with the 3.1 x64 driver package.
If anyone has any Ideas on what I can do to figure out why the system runs so unpredictable with 3.1 x64 drivers installed. I'm whiling to experiment and reinstall win7 x64 as many times as needed so i can send an error report to apple to get this issue fixed.

Wow, i've been running windows 7 64 bit in boot camp since I got my copy as a beta tester in July and never had any issues like you're describing. Boot camp 3.0 worked fine (other than the light in the audio port and minimal touchpad control, and the still present inability to dim the screen dynamically based on brightness around me). And I've had no problems with boot camp 3.1 so far. In the previous BC versions, I went to the nvidia site and downloaded whatever the current driver was for the video, but nothing specific for the chipset. With 3.1 I haven't done even that, just using what the boot camp update installed. Have you tried it with just the BC 3.1 drivers, not getting anything extra from Nvidia or anyone, just to see what happens from that point first?
About the only time I had any issues with diskchecking is when I accidentally close fusion and it abends my windows session. I make a point then of booting and telling it to ignore the disk check, editing the registry to reset the flag so it doesn't do it, then just run a disk check from within windows telling it NOT to fix anything, so that it can verify it's clean. I found the normal disk check in the preboot environment is horrendous on the MBP, takes me literally hours to run through despite it never finding anything to fix.

Boot camp Win7 issue

Hello everyone, I have a new 15" Macbook Pro and am having problems installing Windows 7 via boot camp. I followed the boot camp installation instructions, and am able to get Win7 to install and setup (user name, date/time, etc.) after that, the computer restarts but will not boot into Win7. When I hold option key at startup and select "Windows," the screen turns black with a blinking grey cursor at the top left of the screen, then the computer restarts and thus repeating the issue.
How can I get past this and get Win7 installed and working correctly?
My specs:
15" MBP
OS X 10.8.1
2.3 GHz Core i7
4GB 1600 MHz DDR3
500GB Hard drive
512MB GeForce GT 650M
Windows 7 Home Premium

I don't know, what did you leave out ? partition was too small? allocated 40GB very minimal while 60GB is more reasonable. 20GB will high likelihood fail.
Windows installed updates that conflict (turn off auto updating and review each, and beware of graphic updates from Windows - that is true even on PC).
Do a safe boot or from DVD and try to go back (may be too early to do even that).
ISO burned to DVDs fail.
You have not yet installed the GT 650M driver, but when you do install Apple support you may need to single that one out and do it again on its own manually.

When you load Windows via Boot Camp Assistant program and run Windows does not recognize the "usb" outlets cannot identify the device through the Dvd or flash

When you load Windows via Boot Camp Assistant program and run Windows does not recognize the "usb" outlets cannot identify the device through the Dvd or flash

Did you install BC drivers on the Windows side?

Upgrading to Vista with Boot Camp 2.1 and XP SP3

Hello
I decided to buy Vista to see for myself how it works. It hasn't come in yet, but I want to know if I can upgrade to Vista when I have Boot Camp 2.1, and Windows XP Service Pack 3.

I have upgraded to Vista SP1 from XP SP3 successfully on one of my macs. Once Windows is loaded and up and running then you can upgrade it just like you normally would when running a Windows based PC.
Axel F

So who here has Boot Camp fully up and working in Windows 7 Beta 7077 x64 ?

I've seen lots of guides and everything for installing Windows 7 on apple laptops but they are all very general and do not address this specific issue.
Personally I've had no problems whatsoever with Windows 7 Beta up until build 7068, but after upgrading to build 7077, I've noticed that despite the Kbdmgr.exe process still running in the background, there's no icon in the system tray.
Because the bootcamp application isn't working properly I cannot configure my trackpad's multitouch features, nor use any of the keyboard shortcuts like changing volume or screen brightness.
Looking in device manager it looks like the drivers are all there and installed, I still see "Apple multi-touch mouse" or whatever its called, as well as the webcam etc (which works), but its simply the boot camp software.
So, has anyone actually got this specific configuration working? Also remember this is 64-bit not 32-bit.

Upgrade or clean install?
Microsoft blocks installing Apple services with 7077. And whenever you want to install drivers, use the Troubleshoot Compatibility (control + click).
I don't have a laptop to try with. My guess, and only a guess, is that any drivers will come with 7 and from Microsoft Windows Update. Either pre-install download from the internet as part of the install, or from normal install, or an update (optional updates available). Lastely, sometimes I've seen those "Alert notices" with links to Intel and other drivers (though even these now seem to be getting included).
While 7077 runs well, it is unreleased and not a supported build, RC is still weeks away, and some things that worked before don't now. 7068 seemed better than 7000 public beta, but I had more than a couple problems. I did clean install, and have kept 3rd party drivers to a minimum. Applications as well. And nothing from Apple. iTunes 8.1.1 x64 wiped out my optical drives (one internal, one external) in 7068 and never was able even after trying to uninstall "GEAR" drivers. So I'm not tempting fate again.
If May 5 is RC day, I'd just hold out if you can.

Black screen after installing Boot camp Win7 on iMac 27 late 2009

I've run out of ideas as to how to fix this problem. I have a late 2009 iMac quad i5, Mountain Lion, 12GB RAM, 1TB HD (recently exchanged under extended warranty).
I stopped counting how many times I have tried to get this up and running but I followed a whole bunch of 'how to's' on the net, including the official Appple guide, but I always end up with a black screen. I insytalled it from scratch using both, Apple drivers on CD and SD card and I can confirn that they installed correctly during my last try. That time I first installed Win Vista, then upgraded to Win 7. I took out the install DVD after first restart and left the SD card in its slot (correctly named, as suggested by Apple). the installation finished, the screen went dark for about 5 min, then the computer rebooted, the screen went dark again for another few min and after that the vomputer restarted again but this time all stayed dark and nothing happened for the better part of an hour.
I also restarted from the Win install disk and tried to remove the ATI drivers using command lines, as suggested in one post.
I need to run Win in Bootcamp because some application I use are very demanding so I need Win to run natively. In an earlier attempt I managed to boot Win7 from the Bootcamp partition in Parallels and I installed the Apple Drivers in that environment but it still resulted in a black screen. I also tried to remove the ATI drivers from Drivers directory manually in MacOS mode but the System wouldn't let me edit the Syustem folder at all, not even in Root user mode.
I understand that I'm not the only one with problem and I feel for you, but please refrain from "me too" posts becuase it doesn't really solve my problem. Thank you.

I presume that you've followed the instructions for sideloading the iMac Windows drivers into your install via USB stick? (wasn't aware the EFI recognized the SD slot as storage on boot. Now i know)
I always found more success in just slipstreaming the drivers and install.xml file onto a custom Win7 DVD rather than the USB approach when trying with my Late 2009 27" iMac. The Win7 installer needs that enclosed .xml file in the driver package to tell it where to find the drivers so that they be loaded when the Win7 image extracts itself.
If you're using mountain lion, then you should be receiving the proper Win7 driver set. If you wanted to create a custom image, then you can use an ISO file, the driver package and disk utility to make something you can use. Either that or you learn what edits your install.xml file needs to point the installer properly and check it manually.
I don't know what links you have so i'll just include everything:
Installing boot camp on a Late 2009 iMac:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173
Direct link to Late 2009 iMac-specific Windows drivers.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL995
I'd try a USB stick and the iMac-specific driver set. It should steer your insolent windows installer correctly.
Hope this helps.

Boot camp win7 32bit does not show hard disk drive of OSX 10.7 with the result I am not able to open Mac book os.

I have MacBook 10.9, where in I have loaded win7 32bit in Boot camp.In win explorer the hard disk drive of MacBook of 132gb is missing. I am not able to use OSX10.9.When I insert MacBook CD it asks for fresh installation.How to recover partition of hard disk drive of MacBook in win7?

have you tried to reboot and hold in the option key so you can the boot menu where you can choose to boot into osx?

Vista Blue Screen after Successful Boot Camp installation (32 and 64 bit)

OK so there are a number of people with issues relating to the BSoD after a successful (or not) implemetation of Bot Camp and Windows XP and/or Vista. One of the identified problems relates to the NVIDIA GEforce 9600m GT display driver which crashes out AFTER windows performs its update routine.
Having removed and installed the partition (to ensure a clean install each time), the inescapable conclusion is that the NVIDIA driver is to blame for the crash dump, but it is one of the many MS updates that is the root cause of the failure. If you do a clean install of Vista 32 or 64 Ultimate and install the Boot Camp 2.1 (build 1256) and DO NOT allow updates, the system is not only stable, it runs like a train!
I have Contacted AppleCare about this (as my new MBP is only a few days old) and they have not even heard of the problems. NVIDIA have obviously got issues with something as the driver has been updated to a BETA on their web site, but this will not work on a Mac as it cannot seem to find the hardware to allow the update to complete.
If (like me) you have bought an MBP for support issues for both Mac and Windows users, this is a showstopper and one that is about to cause me to ask for my money back. So far, the nice shiny and new MBP is back in its box pending a 140 mile trip back to Exeter from whence it came.
SHARK!

Boot Camp was a response to public challenges at the time to see who could find how to install Windows on a Mac - which is totally okay thing.
Then you want Apple to do more than any normal PC vendor selling a laptop where people have to do things like deal with BIOS, drivers and all the things you have had to deal with, for Windows.
I'm not disagreeing, let alone arguing, I agree that hardware abstraction layer type stuff Apple would need to do. But I don't think Apple needs to do more than get Windows installed. Drivers, AV, and all the stuff that comes with Windows doesn't change. But it should not BSOD when you install something you are told you need.
I wouldn't be surprised though to see Windows 7 eventually support Apple hardware out of the box so to speak.
Cookie cutter answers are part of today's customer experience "level one" is no level at all, but a lot of times - and it takes a lot of work - to translate feedback and problems into "cook book" before you get to the troubleshooting (level 2 and above).
Which is why I read sites like MacIntouch; subscribe to MacFixit (tons of articles on a CD along with shareware). And books.
Nvidia has terrible drivers in OS X on the Mac Pro (workstation) while ATI has had very good drivers and OpenGL support.
I prefer to have more choice and freedom when it comes to drivers. As for engineering and how things get qualified (use to see even SCSI hard drives had to be qualified for both the OS; the controller to be used; driver version; firmware; etc).
What I see is the first shipped BIOS/EFI firmware on any device or system is not the one you want.
Back in the 70's I was introduced to "bleeding edge" but we would get premiere on-site support if we were willing to install, adopt, some new IBM service, software/hardware. And sometimes we were there on Sunday on holiday weekends.
One person just could NOT after doing everything under the sun, get Adobe CS4 to install on their new $5000 Mac Pro 2009. Got a new system, worked perfectly.
In 2008 Early Mac Pro, most all systems would freeze on wake from sleep. Took two months before an EFI update was issued that cured the problem. There is/was also a problem with "inrush current" and PSU.
I had Blue Screen with Vista. Repeatedly.
At first I thought it was a new MICROSOFT 4000 keyboard.
Later I wondered if it was my Apple OEM Nvida 7300GT (and some are failing but it worked in OS X) so I bought 2nd, a PC 8600GTS.
And pull 3rd party PCI Express controllers (FW800, SATA 1x, SATA 8x cards).
Came away and thought "oh, it was the 3rd party card" when that seemed to work.
Around the same time I had bought a new WD Caviar 750GB SATA drive.
It was that drive that would cause problems with Vista after the install.
I thought it was something in Microsoft Windows Update that was causing my personal ****, not my equipment. And MS for their drivers. Somebody else's.
And mind you, I would go through install half a dozen times, try installing Boot Camp before updates, after updates, not at all, add AV software.
I finally -- after a full year -- learned a lot (don't learn from things just working and I still say it has always been "Plug and Pray" PnP ) things work. I know the frustration and aggravation and the wish that things were different somehow.
The BSODs that I got were not from Apple Boot Camp. I even ran my system w/o Boot Camp for six months. And this time, with Win7, everything worked fine, wake, sleep, networking, no need for Apple drivers. At all.
I hang out on a forum where people build their own, X58 board, Intel Core i7, eVGA graphics. And how to get even DDR3 to work, and then how to get the most out of and push it to the extreme, then throttle back a notch.
The nice thing about that is you learn from it, like you do from racing and sports, to build a better mousetrap.
Nvidia is bleeding. Even as they and ATI want to stay on leading edge. Intel is contracting (even as they have their best cpu technology ever coming out) and costs that should go into R&D may be harder to "justify" or all the prototype programmers engineers and testing labs. Everything is more commoditized than ever.
Bottom line: I have Leopard 10.5.6. It has Boot Camp 2.1.2 version, later than the 2.1 download. And there has not been a single update posted online. But my original Leopard DVD 10.5.0 has the SAME contents packaged as 2.0 as were in the 1.4 Beta. I spend $129 for a new DVD to get the latest drivers. Make sense?? of course not.
Oh, and my Mac with 64-bit hardware, cpu, the EFI BIOS is 32-bit so no official support from Apple to install BC 2.1.2 or use Vista 64-bit. Snow Leopard will be 64-bit kernel, require and enforce 64-bit drivers. Should be interesting. Because technically, and logic, would say I don't have a true 64-bit BIOS environment.
Got an iMac? not supported with 64-bit. MacBook 2008 had 64-bit support, but not the "Late 2008" there you need MacBook Pro. And yet everyone wants to address more than 2GB (Apple EFI32 allows access to 3.3GB on some, 1.9GB on others, and in my Mac Pro? limited to 1.9GB memory in Windows.... so you know I don't want to run a Xeon workstation in Windows 32-bit.

Boot Camp 3 x64 original unibody MacBook?

I have an original unibody MacBook. I installed Windows 7 x64 on it. I previously had the Windows 7 RC 32-bit running just fine using Boot Camp 3.0. I tried to install the x64 version and I keep getting an error "Boot Camp x64 is not supported on this model"
Any way around this? I really don't see why this system should be artificially locked out of running software its perfectly capable of running. I have 4Gb of RAM and would really like to take full advantage of it in Windows.
Thanks for any help.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846
The error is given by your mac because it does not support 64-bit windows. Even though your hardware may support 64-bit because it is intel, the firmware can't handle it (aka the bios give the message that it doesn't support x64 edition when trying to run the installation).
Unfortunately, all macs, before 2008 did not support 64-bit windows. Even then, in early 2008, only the macbook pro 15 inch & 17 inch and the mac pro supported it.
Furthermore there are no boot camp workarounds. I've tried hacking it myself, as long as the hardware can not physically support it, then no amount of software hacking can get it to work. If you really need 64-bit Windows to work, run the free/open source program from http://www.virtualbox.org or purchase a propertiery virtual machine program (virtual machine definition below)
Wikipedia:
Virtual Machine: a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine.
Advantages:
multiple OS environments can co-exist on the same computer, in strong isolation from each other
the virtual machine can provide an instruction set architecture (ISA) that is somewhat different from that of the real machine
application provisioning, maintenance, high availability and disaster recovery
Disadvantage:
a virtual machine is less efficient than a real machine because it accesses the hardware indirectly

Boot Camp ?'s and Can I install bootcamp w/ Windows 7 64-bit?

Also wondering when I try to partition my disk I get this error message "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved- 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 bootcamp again" Any one know what that means or can answer the win 7 question??

Boot Camp forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

How do I install Lion on an MBP with Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Boot Camp'd XP and a Master Boot Record?

I think this is called "a pickle."
The machine is a 13" MacBook Pro, 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo w/ 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD.
The HDD has a Snow Leopard 10.6.8 partition, and a Windows XP partition, via Boot Camp. Its Partition Map Scheme, sadly, is a Master Boot Record. I need to reformat it to a GUID Partition Table scheme to install Lion, but when I attempt to boot it from the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD to wipe the drive, it grey-screens. Dead end.
From what I can gather on the forums, I can't boot a 10.6.8 machine using a Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD. I can't find my grey DVDs for this machine – still looking for those – but I expect those won't work either, being Leopard-generation?
The machine works fine, for the most part, including the optical drive. Has occassional display and wake glitches. Its HDD is backed up on a Drobo via Time Machine. I also have a 15" MBP Core i7 (with the exact same problem: 10.6.8, XP, MBR) which I can use for Target Disk Mode via FireWire. If I try to wipe the HDD on the 13", using Disk Utility on the 15" via Target Disk Mode, will the 13" then boot successfully from the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD?
I just want to wipe the 13" machine, reinstall a fresh copy of Snow Leopard, then update it to Lion and restore from Time Machine, and never touch anything Windows-related ever again. (And then do the same for my 15", for which I've found my 10.6.3 grey disc. Not sure if that's any more promising.)
Any help appreciated!

Sounds like something is wrong with your disk. Have you tried cleaning it?
The Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD is fine – it mounts on both my 13" and 15", and I successfully created an image of it on my 15". I also tried my wife's Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD, also clean, which produced the same grey screen result.
Have you tried to use boot camp to erase the Windows partition?
Yep, this is supposed to be the proper way to remove a Windows XP partition from Boot Camp, so this was the first thing I tried. I get the same error as everyone with a Master Boot Record scheme appears to get:
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.
So, if I can't launch the Disk Utility from the Snow Leopard DVD, my next best guess is wiping it from my 15" over Target Disk Mode. However, if I try that, and still can't get it to boot from the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD, then I'm stuck with an MBP without an OS.
My conclusion – that 10.6.0 DVDs can't boot to 10.6.8 machines – was based on forum posts about downgrading from Lion. I was wondering if there's a way to create a "10.6.8 restore DVD," and try booting from that. Shot in the dark perhaps.

ITunes library and Boot Camp (Snow Leopard and Windows 7)

At the moment, I'm using a Macbook Pro running both OS X and Windows 7 Ultimate using Bootcamp to facilitate this.
The problem that I have is that I keep my iTunes library on an external HDD. In OS X, this isn't a problem as the OS X version of iTunes manages the music on it; adding new podcasts that it downloads and also adding new CDs that I rip to the HDD.
In Windows 7, I installed iTunes and have only run a single "Add folder to library", meaning that only the music that was on the HDD on the first instance is recognised by iTunes. This means that if I were to switch from Windows 7 to OS X, download some podcasts and then go back into Windows 7, iTunes in Windows 7 won't find these new podcasts.
The other (and nowhere near important issue) is that if I forget to disconnect my iPhone before switching over to Windows 7, iTunes in Windows 7 will wipe the apps from it.
Does anyone know how I may be able to resolve this

Your iMac supports OS X Mavericks, so make a backup of your files in Mac OS X and Windows, open the Mac App Store and download OS X Mavericks for free. Check that your apps are supported > http://www.roaringapps.com
OS X Mavericks includes Boot Camp Assistant 5, but it's compatible with Macs that can only use Boot Camp 4. Note that you only have the Boot Camp Assistant as the version 5, and not the drivers or anything else, so there's no problem in installing a 32-bit Windows 7 version if you want. Also, you won't lose your Windows copy after upgrading to OS X Mavericks, so don't worry

Boot Camp 3.0 and Windows 7 64-bit - My experiences/notes

I just installed Boot Camp 3.0 from the Snow Leopard DVD onto my MacBook Pro 17 (Mid 09) which is running Windows 7 64bit RTM and had Boot Camp 2.1 previously installed on it.
My experiences/notes:
1. The Boot Camp 3.0 installation automatically removed the Boot Camp 2.1 drivers that it was going to update and then installed the newer 3.0 ones
2. You still can only use the GeForce 9600M GT graphics chipset, i.e. only the 9600M GT shows to windows and appears in the device manager
3. Deferred Procedure Calls (DPC) Latency issues still exist although it doesn't seem like you need to run the Bootcamp.exe on CPU 0 affinity only (Bootcamp.exe = the updated/Boot Camp 3.0 version of KbdMgr.exe)
4. You still can't fully dim the keyboard backlight with the F5 key
5. I manually updated the 'important' drivers to the very newest one, i.e.
5a. Latest Nvidia driver for GeForce 9600M GT => 186.81notebook_win7_winvista_64bit_internationalwhql.exe
5b. Latest WLAN chip driver => Broadcom (4322AG chipset) Wireless LAN Driver for Microsoft Windows Vista 5.10.91.8 (14 May 2009) = sp43743.exe
5c. Lateset Realtek High Definition Audio Codec => VistaWin7R231.zip
6. Although I still have bad DPC latency, I haven't yet noticed any audio/video lag/drop-outs/screeches etc.
Best of luck to you all and I hope this helps someone, Dingle7
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Hi all,
Here are the links for the latest 'important' drivers:
5a. Latest Nvidia driver for GeForce 9600M GT => 186.81notebook_win7_winvista_64bit_internationalwhql.exe
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
5b. Latest WLAN chip driver => Broadcom (4322AG chipset) Wireless LAN Driver for Microsoft Windows Vista 5.10.91.8 (14 May 2009) = sp43743.exe
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en &cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3872994&swItem=ob-71357-1&mode=5
NOTE: You will need to manually update the drivers in the windows device manager (select 4322AG chipset) because the installer doesn't overwrite the old drivers from Boot Camp
5c. Lateset Realtek High Definition Audio Codec => VistaWin7R231.zip
http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/
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Can not install windows 7 pro using boot camp as mouse and keyboard will not work Help please

I have a new iMac and trying to install Windows 7 Pro using boot camp. I have reached the stage of starting to load windows from the DVD then discovered the mouse and the keyboards not working so I could not interact with windows installation.

Open, if not so already, the Windows formatter. Identify the BC Windows partition. It will be the one listed with the proper size you created and/or will be labeled as a C: drive. Be careful you select the right one or you may be corrupting the entire drive.
Format the partition as NTFS.

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