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

The iMac, even the mid-2008 which got Penryn family Intel (64-bit processor) didn't get 64-bit EFI (EFI64, also known as UEFI 2.x) which is Apple's way of "officially supports" or not a system running x64 Windows.

VirtualBox, VMware, and Parallels will all work fine.

Could someone please help me.

I am running windows 7 on my macbook 5.1 with 10.5.8 OSX.

Everything works perfectly, the only problem is i am not capable of getting my sound to work.

Is anyone able to tell me how to get this right, please.

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

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My MBP from late 2007 has EFI64, but I still can't install Windows7 64bit on it. I'm getting the prompt saying

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2.
Select CD-ROM Boot Type:

but can't enter or select anything. I'm just unable to install Windows7 on my MBP.

Is this a problem that will be solved with the announced BootCamp software update? If not, I'd rather try to give Windows7 back. Would be wasted money otherwise.

I can't get the 186.81 drivers to install on my latest rev MBP. I have windows 7 proffessionl 64bit installed but I keep getting the error:

The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit.

How do I get them to install?

The version of the driver I installed on my June 2009 MBP is called this, "186.81notebook_win7_winvista_64bit_internationalwhql.exe". Is that the name of the driver file you downloaded from the NVIDIA web site?

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 have a Late 2008 MBP 15 inch model with Windows 7 64 bit installed. For some reason about once a work day, Windows 7 hard freezes. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what may be causing this. I am using bootcamp 3.0. I have the latest updates from Apple installed. It is frustrating because when it locks up I lose some research data. Please let me know if there is anything I can do!

Thanks!

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 .....

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.

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.

Firefly: You, sir, are a god.

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