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Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by Zach

Zach — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:30:38 +0000

Thank you so much, I’ve been trying for a week to get this installed on my Mac.

Comment 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.

Comment on Using Steam on a Mac with a case-sensitive drive by edo

edo — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:44:02 +0000

how do you get to the codes in terminal?

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by Arend

Arend — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:44:13 +0000

get a black screen nothing happens.
In a pc the new burned dvd works like a charm….
Really get only windows Xp 64bits or other 32bits windows versions

Comment on Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive? by DSLR-A850

DSLR-A850 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:08:56 +0000

Sito messaggio eccezionale. Ho intenzione di bookmark e controllare molto più spesso. Mi piace molto il modello di sito web

Comment on Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive? by jennifer

jennifer — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:38:33 +0000

Id like details please. I am experiencing this very problem. And I did pay for my software. did you figure it out by any chance?

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by George

George — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:40:32 +0000

Dude, you are the shit! This saved my ass!

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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!

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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?

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by Jer

Jer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:42:36 +0000

I have a different problem when I try installing Windows 7 64bit (Ultimate) to my Macbook Pro 13 (mid 2009)

1. bootcamp partition created (no problem)
2. Continue with the installation (macbook rebooted and load Win7 installation (USb thumb drive)
3. Problem => Unable to load device driver, click browse, rescan or cancel

I am stuck there and unable to proceed further other than clicking cancel to abort the installation.

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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!

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on Using Steam on a Mac with a case-sensitive drive by ben_the_man

ben_the_man — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:01:14 +0000

Thank you so very much. It worked instantly and all my Steam-Games run just fine.

Comment on Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive? by MIKE1

MIKE1 — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:50:59 +0000

Someone know what to do with the case sensitive drive? Without reinstall?

Comment on MacBook Pro and Vista 64 bit (x64) – A guide of sorts by Nathanael Havez

Nathanael Havez — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:36:29 +0000

Thank’s for your edit about the unuspported models, you have helped me a lot!

Comment on Using Steam on a Mac with a case-sensitive drive by Bread Griffin

Bread Griffin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:58:20 +0000

“move the Steam folder that was in user/library/application support/steam into the trash.”

This should be put into the original post, as it wasn’t working for me till I did this. Thanks!

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive? by desizra carolina

desizra carolina — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:52:33 +0000

I would like details … how can we set this up so that i don’t have my email on here publicly

Comment on Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive? by Gustavo

Gustavo — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:54:00 +0000

have you figured it out?

Comment on Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive? by FeliX

FeliX — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:56:29 +0000

There is accauly a workaround. Fooling the installer into thinking it is on the startup disk when it is in a compatible drive… I am looking into that now. Mail me if you want details…

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide by LifeForce

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

You sir, are akin to the gods

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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!

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by MacBook Pro and Vista 64 bit (x64) – A guide of sorts | Josh Anderson's Blog

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:07:46 +0000

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Comment on MacBook Pro and Vista 64 bit (x64) – A guide of sorts by “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook | Josh Anderson's Blog

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Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by Jaume

Jaume — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:34:09 +0000

Thanks. It works perfect.

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by andersonshatch

andersonshatch — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:03:11 +0000

No worries, and you could always run 32 bit Windows on it

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:29:44 +0000

Thanks for your quick reply!

Oh, I see. I falsely assumed it also had to be 64-bit as it’s got an Intel chip and my other, newer Macs all support the installer of course (I think I gotta realize it’s really this old ). Sorry, my fault!

Cheers

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by andersonshatch

andersonshatch — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:47:46 +0000

I’m guessing your Mac Mini doesn’t have a 64 bit processor. I think the early Minis had Core Duo processors which were only 32 bit.

Assuming you still have OS X installed, try clicking on the Apple menu and clicking “About this Mac”; it should tell you which processor the machine has and if it’s a Core Duo then I think you’re out of luck.

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:34:50 +0000

I did all the steps you described to burn a “new” Win7 DVD with oscdimg to install the OS on my old Intel Mac Mini. I’ve tried other solutions such as “Jowie’s tweak” before, but no luck.

Now the problem is always the same, although I’m able to get past the original error message “Select CD-ROM Boot Type”, it will stop proceeding after having loaded the contents of the disc and the following prompt pops up: “Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. […]

File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
Status: 0xc000035a
Info: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.”

Any help on this would be very much appreciated as I’m starting to go crazy about this…

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide by Oli

Oli — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:21:25 +0000

Thank you!

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on “Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook by Curtispsf

Curtispsf — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:34:14 +0000

I have several MACS but no Windows machines available to do the type of work required to get Windows 7 on a 1st Generation Mac Pro, so I tried a MAC only based approach not really expecting it to work at all.

I successfully installed Windows 7 – 64 bit on a newer 2009 Mac Pro Nehalem Quad Core and went though all the updates. I then moved the drive over to a 1st Generation 2006 Mac Pro Quad and fired it up. It worked. I then tried cloning and that was successful as well.

I’m going to continue working on another MAC only approach to getting Windows 7 on a 1st Generation Mac Pro!

Comment on MacBook Pro and Vista 64 bit (x64) – A guide of sorts by irriterende kvinde

irriterende kvinde — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:36:57 +0000

Great post – bookmarked! Regards Thomas

Comment on Using Steam on a Mac with a case-sensitive drive by james

james — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:40:26 +0000

“steam needs to be online to update”
got this with 20 or so attempts, did a photoshop update and tried the steam install during the photoshop update and steam magically downloaded and installed.
I did nothing else that I have seen posted to resolve this so, my guess is the steam servers are simply too busy for mac or the photoshop update opened up ports or something???
sorry no solid explanation but hope this helps someone.

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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?

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive? by you_wish

you_wish — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:06:45 +0000

And they wonder why we set sail and pirate.

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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!

Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide by Windows 7 Setup Part 4: Pregame – Preparing for the Update..? Upgrade..? « iTechGear.org

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Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide by Apple Releases Long Anticipated Boot Camp 3.1 Update for Windows 7 « iTechGear.org

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:23:38 +0000

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Comment on Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide 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.

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Felipe Sprenger — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:40:19 +0000

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