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

By: Kyro

Kyro — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:14:09 +0000

I had to do cd /d :E to acces the folder in my USB stick, but i works. Thks a lot.

By: Marcos

Marcos — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:08:31 +0000

Thank you,
I’m running Lions – 10.7.1 – and yours “Snow Leopard edit” instructions solved the issue.
I just tried “cd Drivers\Apple” – instead of “cd Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple” – and it works like a charm.
Thanks again!

By: ibassel

ibassel — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:37:32 +0000

Thanks for the great article. but what if I don’t have the Snow Leopard DVD. where i can find the bootcam64 drivers then?

By: Andrey

Andrey — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:45:17 +0000

I wonder, what might be the reason of both Apple and Microsoft for making people to look on such backways in installing an audio driver!
I guess, it took time for many people for finding the John Anderson’s blog – and how many haven’t found it?
Nevertheless, thanks a lot – you saved a lot of my time!

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:09:48 +0000

Hi Josh

Really appreciate your guide. I followed the procedure and everything went smooth till I get the message about corrupted files and a reference to an code 0X80070570. I googled the error code and found out that is quite a common problem. Unfortunately even though I try most of the suggested workarounds, I haven’t been able to complete the procedure so far. The installation keep stopping and message popping at 48% when expanding.

Mac Pro 1.1
Hard drive: 1 TB (partition created for WIndows 7: 250 MB)
RAM: 3GB
OS: Leopard 10.6.8
Bootcamp: 2.0 (not sure)

Thank you in advance for the help you may want to give.

By: Josh Anderson

Josh Anderson — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:56:15 +0000

Yep, it’s only assessing what it gets through VMWare. The hard drive performance will not be as great as when you’re in Boot Camp, both reads and writes will be slower.

By: Hunt

Hunt — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:49:17 +0000

In regards to the Windows Experience Index Score, I believe it may also be correlated to the amount of hard drive you have partitioned to run Windows on your Mac.

I have my 2011 2.5 GHz Core i5 iMac, running 8GB of ram, partitioned at 30GB for Windows and I only get a score of 4.5.

I thought the score seemed a little low, so I clicked the “view and print detailed performance and system information” link, and the pop-up screen showing the detailed information says that I only have 1GB of ram, 1 processing core, etc.

But it’s possible that the reason for the discrepancy is because I’m running Windows through VMware Fusion instead of Boot Camp. Typing this out just made me realize this, haha. I’ll test out the score on Boot Camp and let you know if it changes. Thanks.

By: LifeForce

LifeForce — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:40:04 +0000

You sir, are akin to the gods

By: Emeka

Emeka — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:33:06 +0000

After loading windows7 on my macbook, everything worked fine except for the sound even earphone plugged refused 2 work.plz some1 helppp!

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By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:13:53 +0000

Thanks a bundle. This finally made my mac usable in x64 windows. Something ive been after for a very long time.

By: Chris Spera

Chris Spera — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:24:22 +0000

The BEST way to setup an appropriate partition schema for Windows is via Boot Camp. It partitions the drive and sets up the boot loader so you can use the OS you want or need. I find that making changes to the partition schema after Boot Camp has done its job is a no-no. You tend to bump into problems like the one you mention.

If removing an external drive doesn’t resolve your issue, I would blow your Mac one last time, reinstall Snow Leopard, run Boot Camp, set your Windows partition size and then follow Josh’s instructions again. I’ve been running Windows on Macs for about 5 years, and his instructions are among the best available.

By: Oli

Oli — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:21:25 +0000

Thank you!

By: Clayton

Clayton — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:50:48 +0000

The blinking cursor usually means it is scanning disks/partitions. I tend to find that removing all USB/Firewire storage devices does the trick most of the time.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:49:51 +0000

Hi,

I have this problem which I could not figure out.

I followed this instructions and made it to Win 7 x64 the first time..

Did some tweaks to the partitioning and happen that windows didn’t boot, So I decided to reinstall and didn’t work, now that I have formatted my whole mac, reinstalled Snow Leopard, attempting to install Win7 x64 again.
But all i can see is a blinking cursor after booting from the Win7 x64 iso that is created via the instructions.

I even tried using iPartition to make my FAT partition visible to windows.
Still no avail…. sobs..

Any ideas anyone?

By: Marcio

Marcio — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:47:32 +0000

Thanks a lot my friend. I had the problem with the message Boot camp winx64 is …..Thanks to you I solved the problem and everything is working great!!

Regards from Brazil

By: sam

sam — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:51:06 +0000

Hey Josh,

This article really helped me out on my macbook pro. I installed Windows 7 x64 Ultimate without boot camp and was missing some drivers. I downloaded the drivers you had a link to and voila! It took care of the problem. My macbook is running great.

The only other issue I have with it is the power saving feature. My mac will not startup the screen saver or go to sleep mode. Any thought?

Thanks for making this available.

By: Bryan Delpech

Bryan Delpech — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:50:01 +0000

Thank You very much for your help thus far. Not sure if anyone has experienced this problem but here it is; my firewire drive mounts normally when I boot into windows then all of a sudden it is gone. I go to disk utility and it gives me error code 10 sometimes or error code 43, something about the driver, I have unistalled and reinstalled the driver to no avail.
Help Please!!
Bryan

By: jmedora

jmedora — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:07:36 +0000

I’m having a problem on my late 2006 A1226 MBP Santa Rosa 2.4 4GB RAM with an upgraded SSD in the drive bay. I re-installed snow leopard on the SSD and ran through boot camp assistant fine only to restart to a blank white/grey screen as if the Windows7 disc isn’t working. I followed all instructions posted here and I can’t get the Windows Installer to pop up on reboot. Any help is appreciated.

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:48:53 +0000

Thanks a ton, Josh.

You’ve given a gift that just keeps on giving!

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By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:14:40 +0000

I would just like to add my experience with a 4.1 Macbook Pro (base 2k model, early 08 last non uni-body). I bought a new hard drive and W7 Pro 64bit OEM disc. I was able to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard from that 10 dollar disc to upgrade older Leopard machines. I then fully updated OSX and ran Boot Camp Assistant. Did an equal divide partition and put in my OEM disc and it rebooted straight into W7 installed just fine. I had to format the boot camp partition to NTFS, no biggie though. It rebooted a few times and a lot of drivers were already working inside W7 desktop screen. Popped in the Snow Leopard disc and it went ahead and installed Boot camp 3.0 then followed your link to 3.1 update and it all works flawless. Never had an issue and everything works and superb ratings in the performance checker.

By: arteiro

arteiro — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:18:21 +0000

i have some problems with drivers some1 can help me??
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thx for help

By: Josh Anderson

Josh Anderson — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:03:35 +0000

I’m afraid there simply isn’t a way of preparing the DVD without having an existing Windows installation.
It sounds as though you’ve tried though so you must have one? Let me know what the problem has been and maybe I can suggest a solution.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:15:38 +0000

Hi Josh

Is there a way to prepare this boot DVD on a Mac? I have tried several DVDs now, but none of them can be booted on my Macbook Pro … I’ve been fiddling with this for a week now, and need a little help.

Thanks!

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:57:21 +0000

Yep, same issue here. I’m guessing it may have to do with having an HFS+ partition on the USB external. You posted so long ago though, that I doubt you’ll reply… :/

By: kevin kayani

kevin kayani — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:45:49 +0000

Thanks…you are life saver…!!

By: Rapid

Rapid — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:09:45 +0000

Just what I was looking for and it worked!!

thanks!

By: Akash

Akash — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:31:38 +0000

Thanks dude..for the life of me I couldn’t get Bootcamp installer to start despite separately installing all the different drivers. You are a legend! =D

By: Kish

Kish — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:43:39 +0000

Awesome! Thanks! Worked

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:32:09 +0000

Got the installer to work on my older MBP C2D (unsupported) model, following your steps.
Installed Windows 7 x64, installing Boot Camp x64 now…
Thanks!!!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:22:37 +0000

Thanks a lot, I’ve been searching for an endless time for a solution to run Win 7 x64 on the same MacBook Pro than you…

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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?