Comments on: Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:05:09 +0000

I’m not sure whether it does. I briefly tried a non-modified Vista 64 disk with someone else’s unibody MBP [I don't have one myself ] quite a while ago and it didn’t work. Haven’t heard about 7.

It is supported by Apple though, so I imagine it *should*.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:43:48 +0000

Thanks for the info. I’ve even tried wiping out the partition and it seems to exhibit the same symtom, with one exception. OS X boots up like normal and everything seems fine until my system hangs. I go and do a hard reboot and the corrupted video appears. After a few reboots, the video returns to normal and everything seems fine, until the next hang.

I going to try to do a clean install of Snow Leopard today and play around with it. If it exhibits the same behavior then I guess I have that issue mentioned in the link you gave me. I have the Best Buy Accidental Coverage and I think the repair of the video will justify a replacement. If it does, I guess I’ll swap it out for the unibody Macbook Pro. That model does support x64 without “modifying” the ISO image, right? Thanks for the help.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:32:06 +0000

Honestly it sounds as though there’s a problem with your graphics card, and just installing Windows has drawn out a fault in the card.

You didn’t mention which model of the MBP you have but as you can see here (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377) certain models had a flaw and are covered under an extended warentee. I had my logic board replaced due to the no video issue in November.

Perhaps you should take it into an Apple store and get it checked out?
Sorry that I can’t offer any more help than that.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:39:35 +0000

I’ve noticed two major problems that I’ve encountered during my install of win7 x64.

The first problem encountered was that when I rebooted back into OS X, the system seems to hang. Only way out of it is to do a hard boot (holding down the power button to shut it off). When it reboots, my video is corrupted. I have two choices to get out of it is by entering the target disk mode and doing another hard boot. The second is to reboot into windows and do a soft reboot. The second method doesn’t always work.

The second problem I ran into was when I upgraded to BootCamp 3.1 and it decided to upgrade my video drivers, video got corrupted. You can’t even boot into OS X. I had to go into target disk mode, soft boot, hold the option key to select the mac partition to boot, delete the windows partition via boot camp, and then reboot. Everything is fine now after that.

Any thoughts why?

By: Geolitz

Geolitz — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:32:52 +0000

Thanks for bringin’ it to the people, Josh.

George ::::
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By: maracap

maracap — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:28:16 +0000

Hello, my Windows 7 is working perfectly fine on my 13″ MBP. The problem is I can’t make my microphone work. Not working when I use Skype. Please help, thanks!

By: saeid

saeid — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:51:18 +0000

thank you very much

most helpful

By: alp

alp — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:36:35 +0000

thank u man ur awesome

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:11:41 +0000

Thank you! It worked perfectly!

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:11:30 +0000

Master, master and 1000 times Master!!!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:57:37 +0000

Hmm. I don’t know what’d cause that kind of issue. It shouldn’t really happen whether you have the drivers installed or not. Can’t help with that one I’m afraid.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:45:48 +0000

Thanks so much! Great work around for those who got the unsupported models error.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:01:17 +0000

Thanks Josh. Install process went smoothly now.

This is my second time installing Windows 7 64 bit on my 2006 Mac Pro. I was previously using it for 2 weeks, but today I got a black screen with a blinking white line when trying to boot into Windows. It wouldn’t move past this point.

Note: I didn’t have the Boot Camp 64 bit drivers installed.

Any idea if this will resolve the problem?

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:28:57 +0000

Yeah. You need to right click on command prompt from wherever you’re opening it from and choose run as administrator. Having UAC never notify you doesn’t mean everything runs as administrator. Only turning it off does that.

By: jordan

jordan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:04:01 +0000

“Installation requires elevated privileges” when trying to install drivers from Snow Leopard CD using Windows command promt. I turned my UAC settings to “never notify”, but still can’t install. Any ideas?

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:59:11 +0000

Thankyou. thankyou thankyou thankyou.

This guide is the last stop in my LONG journey to get this stuff working. Everything works now.

I really appreciate you taking the time to help everyone.

Thanks =)

By: chazz

chazz — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:03:01 +0000

Thank you very much!!! This was a great help for me getting win 7 64 running on my MBP. Everything seems good so far except my computer will not eject a usb ext hard drive running in win7 it just says other program is using it try closing the program and try again. anyone else have this issue??

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:33:54 +0000

Did you click on the file first?

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:06:02 +0000

There is no option under File menu for “Troubleshoot Compatibility”

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:40:38 +0000

Thanks a lot, i was so desperate until i found this by googling the error…

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:34:39 +0000

Fantastic! I should have thought to use the command line to elevate privileges like that…

Works like a charm.

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By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:32:29 +0000

Thanks a million for your instructions! I have a 15″ MacBook Pro (Leopard) running Windows 7 Enterprise N x64 in Boot Camp, and have everything working except for the Mac specific function keys (sound, brightness, eject, and backlit keyboard). The links to the four driver files no longer work, but I was able to get the single file that contains all of the drivers.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:10:07 +0000

Forgot to mention, obviously, comment back with how it goes and if you need me to upload the driver for you to try.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:48:54 +0000

That’s a very weird issue… Especially seeing as it’s booting from the CD when it’s telling you it needs drivers!

I’ve tried in the past to eject a DVD when in the installer but have had no success; but anyway…. If you need to provide it with the drivers, your best option is to use a USB hard drive / USB key thingy…. The next problem though, is that Apple doesn’t provide drivers for the DVD drive…. Because they don’t need to! On everyone else’s it just seems to work.

This makes me think that there is something wrong with your installation DVD and perhaps some files are missing from it? Perhaps you could try making it again.
If this same problem happens again, I’ll retrieve the DVD driver from my Mac (once it has been fixed & returned to me) and I’ll upload it so you can try that; but I would suggest trying to create the DVD again & ensure, if you downloaded it from somewhere, that it’s complete.

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:48:46 +0000

Hey all! Firstly let me say thank you for the awesome job you’ve done with this tutorial. The links to the drivers alone was a real find.

But, to get to my problem, I’m running the exact same hardware as you list at the beginning of this post, a MBP Santa Rosa (3,1) and I’ve followed all steps to get the Win7 x64 iso disc made, and have successfully booted from the disc to the installer. However, after the installer loads, and things look windows-esque, I am immediately presented with a prompt telling me that the driver for my cd-rom drive is missing, and I am asked to locate it. I tried moving the Bootcamp 2.01 drivers you’ve provided to the partition I’ll be installing on, and thought I could load them from there, but without any luck. The prompt mentions that I can safely change cds to load my drivers if necessary, but I’m unable to use the eject button on my MacBook to get the windows installer disc out.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? I’m stumped and running out of options. Please help!

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By: Hattan

Hattan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:34:13 +0000

Thanks you it worked great job.

By: Hattan

Hattan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:59:34 +0000

How and where can I create these folders c:\efi-iso c:\efi-dvd c:\efi-exe since windows doesn’t accept files name with : or \

By: yamaha-r46

yamaha-r46 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:50:36 +0000

I have already tried this and my screen stays black! I also tried “jowie’s tweak” and it doesn’t work too, it’s the same.
i’m really not a noob!
mac mini 2Ghz Efi 32

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:16:48 +0000

This seems to be working. With the windows 7 trial edition on a macbook pro classic. Thanks for the help.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:58:42 +0000

You have to follow the instructions on this page: http://test.andersonshatch.com/2009/11/08/select-cd-rom-boot-type-prompt-during-vista-server-2008-r2-windows-7-x64-boot-on-macbook/

By: yamaha-r46

yamaha-r46 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:49:05 +0000

hey, i’m from germany and my english isn’t so well.
also i ask where can i find the solution for cd-rom boot type…
i’m not able to use my keyboard.
can you help me please…
best regards

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:25:15 +0000

From the bottom of my heart – thank you.

By: Ben Meyer

Ben Meyer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:49:05 +0000

I have a 24″ white iMac Intel Core2 Duo. Followed your instructions and it worked perfectly. Thanks for the post, you’re a life saver!

By: Nick Beaugeard

Nick Beaugeard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:03:27 +0000

Ok This works. A combination of Leopard (10.5) and the download above has all my devices working perfectly on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RTM. Thanks so much

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:06:51 +0000

As Christopher says below [WordPress doesn't allow me to make his comment a reply to yours], Tiger doesn’t have support for Boot Camp, so no it won’t work.

Perhaps you can download the drivers from the link below though?

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL74

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:54:59 +0000

Excellent. Glad I could help.

By: Christopher Spera

Christopher Spera — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:52:39 +0000

This worked! I’m up on Win7 64bit with full support, including backlit keyboard, now. Thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it!

By: Christopher Spera

Christopher Spera — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:51:07 +0000

Tiger doesn’t support Boot Camp, so the drivers will not be on that DVD. Sorry. A copy of Snow Leopard should only cost you $30, if that helps…

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:32:36 +0000

Hey I have leopard on my mac but I lost the cd and I only have my old tiger cd will this still work when I install the drivers with the tiger cd

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:06:25 +0000

I’m 100% sure it works on RTM x64 Windows 7. I’m using it right now. I can scroll using the touchpad, adjust the screen brightness, volume…..

I’ve just discovered a different method that you can try (and I will probably update the main post later to reflect the fact that this is easier).

With the Snow Leopard disk in; navigate to ‘Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple’. Click once on ‘BootCamp64′ to select it, hit alt on the keyboard and then from the File menu click ‘Troubleshoot Compatibility’. The wizard will set it up so that the setup will run normally.

I just tried this just now and it seems to have installed everything you need.

By: Chris Spera

Chris Spera — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:19:33 +0000

Josh, are you SURE it works with the RTM version of Win7 64bit? I tried running the MSI from within the GUI, and got an error that it needed to be run via the installer. I didn’t try using the command prompt method. I am also running Snow Leopard; but on an early 2009 13″ unibody MacBook.

Let me know as soon as you can. I’d really like to run the 64bit version instead of the 32bit version.