unable to download boot camp 4 windows software

If you read the forum title and users complains you see that Apple provided but don't want to provide bootcamp drivers any more! This is the Fact!

carlos.v.gonzalez wrote:

If you read the forum title and users complains you see that Apple provided but don't want to provide bootcamp drivers any more! This is the Fact!

Incorrect Carlos, drivers are available from the BCA, I download them fairly regularly without problems. Sort your computer out and download them, ranting is tacky.

Okay, i spend 3 days to make my win7 working on the mac mini, i read a tons of websites, i searched hours on the net to find the win7 bootcamp drivers, and noone said/write that these drivers are inside the lion. I thought i write it down maybe this can help for someone, Im sorry if this information is uncomfortable for someone, i ended my career on this forum by now.

TItle "unable to download boot camp 4 windows software"

1- If you can download the drivers fairly regularly without problems, then I don't know what are you here doing, since this thread is for people, and seems to be lots of them that have problems downloading the Boot Camp Drivers.

2 - I know how to "hack" and search for hiding BootCamp Drivers on the Original DVD, but theorically Boot Camp Assitant should download them and not giving me an error like "Unable to donwload"

3 - Most of people don't know where to find the BootCamp Drivers nor they should, since it supposed to BootCamp Assitant to burn those on a cd/dvd, but since it gives an error it won't happend.

By the way, I don't have the original dvd with me right now, so if you give me a direct link to the BootCamp drivers I and lot of users will be happy, and I don't mean just the Updates, since that don't do much without the original BootCamp Drivers!

carlos.v.gonzalez wrote:

TItle "unable to download boot camp 4 windows software"

1- If you can download the drivers fairly regularly without problems, then I don't know what are you here doing, since this thread is for people, and seems to be lots of them that have problems downloading the Boot Camp Drivers.

2 - I know how to "hack" and search for hiding BootCamp Drivers on the Original DVD, but theorically Boot Camp Assitant should download them and not giving me an error like "Unable to donwload"

3 - Most of people don't know where to find the BootCamp Drivers nor they should, since it supposed to BootCamp Assitant to burn those on a cd/dvd, but since it gives an error it won't happend.

By the way, I don't have the original dvd with me right now, so if you give me a direct link to the BootCamp drivers I and lot of users will be happy, and I don't mean just the Updates, since that don't do much without the original BootCamp Drivers!

On this thread are approximately 20 people unable to make it work, including you with your bizarre ideas about 'hidden' drivers. Most people don't need to know where the drivers are, BCA will get them anyhow. Torrents are a dangerous source, stop suggesting that people use them. It appears that you have made no attempt to troubleshoot your issue, merely complained about it.

If you lost your DVD buy another.

Wow. Ton o' stuff duly read through, sidestepping the rants...and still I can't use BCA to download drivers--same "not available" message as others get. Where I'm going is to install Win 7 in the partition, then use Parallels to run it; I think you, Csound1, saw my post about that.

Can't find anything BC-related on Snow Leopard install disk; if I'm not looking in the right folder, can someone direct me? 'Optional Installs' doesn't identify its contents...maybe that's it?

Or, if available from Apple, anybody got a URL? Looked here http://support.apple.com/downloads/#boot%20camp, but unsure how to proceed.

Thanks for any guidance. Unlike some, most less experienced users hugely appreciate the time and expertise you pros give to the rest of us, and for free. 😍

radiokid311 wrote:

No not yet. I've been reading further in some other posts and saw that someone said that there are only Boot Camp 4.0 windows software updates for the Mac Book Air and that the rest of us have no upgrade at the present time. I'm not sure if that's true or not. Can anyone confirm that?

That is untrue.

Susan Hull wrote:

Wow. Ton o' stuff duly read through, sidestepping the rants...and still I can't use BCA to download drivers--same "not available" message as others get. Where I'm going is to install Win 7 in the partition, then use Parallels to run it; I think you, Csound1, saw my post about that.

Can't find anything BC-related on Snow Leopard install disk; if I'm not looking in the right folder, can someone direct me? 'Optional Installs' doesn't identify its contents...maybe that's it?

Are you looking for it in OSX or Windows, you should be using Windows. Just boot windows, insert the disc and run Setup.exe.

Windows 7 isn't recognizing the disk and Mac OS is claiming it. I know there's a control panel item for turning external drive on/off, but I can't find it. Know where that is?

OSX has nothing to do with the Window drivers, you can ONLY install them in Windows, what happens when you insert the disk, (in Windows)

I have Snow Leopard with Fusion running Win 7. When I insert the Snow Leopard disk with Win 7 active, OS X opens it. Win 7 doesn't see it--not on desktop, no D drive (media drive) at all under Computer, which is where it should be. There's a Win 7 setting somewhere to turn on/off recognition of inserted disks, so I'm guessing that's the issue. I thought it was a Control Panel item, but I'm not finding it.

Then you have not set Fusion correctly, set it so you are offered a choice of which OS loads the disk, right now OSX has priority. Look in Fusions settings to change it.

Correction: D: drive is shown on Computer, but it says VM Ware Tools is in it. Just not so. Snow Leopard is in iMac's one and only media drive. What am I missing?

Thank you, thank you. That's the setting I was remembering.

D: is a virtual drive created by Fusion, please read the Fusion Manual for instruction on how it operates with external media, how to choose which OS has access to the external media etc.