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

I installed Win-7 prof 64-bit, after having upgraded to BC 3.0, and everything seems to be in order except I cannot ADD A PRINTER. Everytime I try, I get:

Windows can't open Add Printer. The local print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler or restart the machine.<<</div>

And many attempts to manually restart the spooler (via the Win-7 services menu)etc, haven't worked...

Any ideas?

hey there,

I finally got the latest drivers from nvidia to install.

I used this mod program http://www.driverheaven.net/nvmodtool.php which mods the nvidia drivers and allows them to be installed.

Chris

WARNING!

If you're using Boot Camp with Windows 7 and OS X with multiple hard drives, don't EVER use the "Disk Management" tool in Windows 7 to try to reassign drive letters of the OS X drives!

I discovered this bug the hard way. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit edition) on a 1TB drive in my Mac Pro, which went just fine. Installed the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers into it, which also went fine. But then I noticed that my OS X drives I had labeled "Data 1" and "Data 2" were assigned drive letters that were the reverse of what I wanted. ("Data 1" was assigned as drive G: in Windows 7, while the "Data 2" drive was displaying first, as drive F:.)

I modified their drive letters using the Disk Management tool under "Administrative Tools" to get F: and G: reversed, and all appeared to be well. BUT - upon rebooting into OS X, I found out it no longer saw either of those drives!

I've spent the whole day today trying to repair the OS X data drives, to no avail. The OS X disk utility and Tech Tool Pro both refuse to even touch the drives, claiming they're of an "unsupported type". If I try to force any program to mount the drives, I just get back error messages. Interestingly though, I used the latest version of Prosoft Drive Genius, booted from DVD, and it actually sees the drives fine. If I run a repair or rebuild operation on them, it proceeds like everything is normal, and eventually determines the drives are "ok". They still don't work when I reboot to OS X though.

It appears that Windows 7 made some sort of modification to the partition table which causes OS X not to realize the drives have standard HFS+ partitions on them anymore. (Drive Genius apparently ignores this "ID" information, and correctly sees the HFS+ partition for what it is.)

At this point, I'm not sure what I can do though? Windows 7 is the only OS that sees all of my data, so I may just have to use it to copy over everything I need to its partition, reformat the others, and copy it back afterwards. It just seems like this should be a quick and easy fix, if only a disk utility would "see" what is wrong with the partition header .....

Got it. To everybody having driver problems: put in the Bootcamp CD and view the files. Go to Bootcamp/drivers/Nvidia/NvidiaGrahpicsMobileVista64 and run setup.exe towards the bottom. I just did this and it works brilliantly.

Bootcamp 3.0 not installing on my Macbook 4.1. OS - Windows 7 x64 RC.

"Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this model"

Anyone else getting this?

You need to extract the drivers to run them in 64-bit mode from the Snow Leopard DVD.

Firebird, browse into the BootCamp CD -> Drivers/Apple. Now install the "BootCamp64.exe".

Worked like a charm for me, if it doesnt try the compability mode for the .exe

hi, saw you had success with windows 7 installation. just wondering if i could ask you a couple of question concerning the topic.

i have snow leopard installed now, have never used boot camp before. just subscribed to Microsoft technet, so will be able to get windows rtm soon. i saw some posts saying the iso burnt disk would not work. the 64 bit system dvd cannot be recognised and won't boot and install. it will ask to select cd room or something.

since you are using the 64 bits. can i ask you what software did you use and how did you burn the iso? and did you get that "select cd rom" screen?

would hightly appreciate your help! cheers!

thanks for your reply Hatter!

mine is MacBook Pro late 2009 model, 3.06 GHz. so would that work?

i thought the "select" problem is something with how one burns the iso to dvd. is it not? i have only burnt data disk before. any good software you'd recommend?

thanks again fro your help. cheers!

Windows 7 is less demanding on than Windows Vista, so 2GB is enough. And I ran Windows 7 with 2GB (not in parallel) and it ran beautifully.

Great i did what firebird said, it worked great on windows 7 professional 64bit!

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I receive the same message when I tried to install Windows 7 64-bit on my 2007 Mac Pro (which is not 64-bit EFI). On my June 2009 MBP I did not get this error and Win 7 installed perfectly.

Hi! I got the very same problem while installing W7x64 and I still can't get through with it... did you figure it out? If yes can you help me?
Thanks!

I did this and the drivers installed, but I'm still having a problem where I try to load a game and it crashes. I have a Mid 09 Mac Book Pro if it helps anything.

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