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Upgrade Boot Camp from 2.1 to 3.0

I have already up and running Bootcamp 2.1 on my Macbook Pro. I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and I am trying to upgrade my Windows XP Boot Camp drivers from 2.1 to 3.0.

I figure out that I would only need to run the installer from Windows xp from the SL disk but when I try to do it, I get the error message saying:

"The installer encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured. To try these operations at a later time, please run the installer again"

I have run the installer several times with the same result. How can I upgrade my existing bootcamp partition 2.1 to 3.0? Any details would be greatly appreciated.

Macbook Pro Unibody (early 2009), Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 10:20 AM

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opertone

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Sep 2, 2009 1:52 PM in response to ecran

Just one more question: Where can I get bootcamp 3.0?

Can I install win7 with bootcamp 2.1?
Can I install win7 with bootcamp 3.0?

Is win7 officially supported?
Can I find win7 drivers for macbookpro 2006?

Sep 2, 2009 5:07 PM in response to opertone

The Bootcamp drivers are available legitimately ON either Leopard or Snow Leopard OSx installation discs

Leopard has Bootcamp 2.0 onboard with update 2.1 downloaded whilst in Windows.
(Update 2.1 requires 2.0 drivers to be already installed - so is NOT a standalone package)

Snow Leopard has Bootcamp 3.0 onboard

Sep 14, 2009 7:14 AM in response to Fortuny

Thank you. That has fixed it for me.

I had never managed to upgrade to Boot Camp 2.1 because I had already installed SP3. I thought that it was this that was causing me problems now, but when I went into the Device Manager and uninstalled all drivers for ¨display adapters¨ apart from ¨Radeon X1600¨ (I had one other called ¨mirror¨ something or other), then the installation went ahead without a hitch.

Thanks again!

Jottle

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Nov 8, 2009 9:17 AM in response to boustrephon

I have xp sp3, the apple display drivers, and no logmein or vnc services install, and yet, I still can't upgrade to boot camp 3.0 (nor can I uninstall bootcamp services as I get a "fatal error"). When I try to install boot camp 3.0, I get the same error as the OP ""The installer encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured. To try these operations at a later time, please run the installer again""

I still haven't been able to fix this using the recommendations in this thread. Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution?

The hatter

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Nov 8, 2009 9:45 AM in response to Jottle

Try using Windows Installer Cleanup Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowsInstaller_CleanUpUtility

Jottle

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Nov 9, 2009 7:49 AM in response to The hatter

Nevermind. I fixed it the way others have. I had to delete a duplicate display driver from my device manager. All is well now. Thanks for the advice.

Jan 25, 2010 9:50 PM in response to Keith Doherty3

I just wanted to chime in and thank you. I tried to find this fix for 2 days. Once I found your post it took me 2 minutes to eliminate the extra video and my problem was solved.

Thank you. To any others following this thread, the fix is found at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2138663&tstart=0

Upgrade Boot Camp from 2.1 to 3.0