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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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User profile for user: Fortuny
Fortuny
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Sep 1, 2009 7:35 AM in response to ecran

Hi and welcome to Discussions,

have you any non-Apple BootCamp Drivers installed or replaced, like for the graphics card for example ?

If so, the uninstall them, either through the 'Software'-Panel in the Control Panel or in the case of graphics card drivers with DriverSweeper http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

Also, a checkdisk run http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHKDSK might be helpful.

Regards

Stefan
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User profile for user: ecran
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Sep 1, 2009 3:18 PM in response to ecran

I still have problems upgrading Bootcamp to 3.0. I ranCHKDSK and computer seems to be fine. I have not installed any other drivers other than the ones "Apple Software Update" installs.

The problems is that there seems to be no way to uninstall these drivers from Windows. I tried unistalling Boot Camp Services but that gives me an error as well. Apple, how can we solve this issue?!
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User profile for user: Fortuny
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Sep 1, 2009 8:23 PM in response to ecran

Hi all,

just found another possible cause for error:

do you have LogMeIn or UltraVNC installed, or any other application that uses a special video driver (not the one for the real graphics card), uninstall them, reboot, and try again.

Also, if you have any non-Apple devices connected (keyboard, mouse), disconnect them and use the Apple devices instead.

Stefan
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User profile for user: sbolin
sbolin
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Sep 1, 2009 11:13 PM in response to koushien

Yes, same problem here. I have a 2008MBP, but all the drivers, etc seem to be for a MB Air. The autosetup routine even has three options for installing software for a MB Air, so either the install program is borked or it is confused into thinking that I have a MB Air. I don't have any odd drivers (security device for some of our programs, but I don't want to remove that). I have the 10.6 Family upgrade disk, and had previously installed Boot Camp 2.1, so think everything is up to date. Hopefully Apple will add a link to the BC 3 drivers soon so we can download and try that.
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User profile for user: sbolin
sbolin
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Sep 2, 2009 1:15 AM in response to sbolin

hmm, stranger still. Chkdsk shows no errors, the clean up program messed things up by uninstalling needed drivers, so had to roll back to get Windows running again. I try to install the Boot Camp 2.1 drivers just to check, and still get an error. Not sure what is up now.
[edit : grammar]

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