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-jeremiah- Author

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Boot Camp 3.3 fail to install on my iMac

Hi,

My iMac is running with Windows 7 Pro x64 wit Boot Camp 3.2. When I try to install Boot Camp 3.3 with Apple Software Update it ask me to reboot and I still have Boot Camp 3.2 running on my machine.

If I download Boot Camp 3.3 and execute it manually, it give me an error message : Fail to install Boot Camp Services (or something like that, as it is in french)

I used to have issue to install Boot Camp 3.1 and 3.2 where the only option to setup it that I find in this forum was to extract the setup files and run manually the BootCampUpdate64 file. Unfortunatly I cannot do that anymore with 3.3 as it is in a package that I cant extract.

Any idea on how I can fix that ?

Thanks.

iMac, Windows 7

Posted on Aug 29, 2011 11:31 AM

23 replies

Sep 3, 2011 2:01 AM in response to -jeremiah-

No, I did'n do it.

Sep 3, 2011 11:14 AM in response to ignat1962

I was finally able to update/ install Boot Camp (4.0) by first using Microsoft Cleanup Utility (google it) to remove Apple BootCamp Services. After doing that it installed without any issues.

Sep 3, 2011 1:57 PM in response to -jeremiah-

If I have correctly understood, at first it is necessary to remove completely Boot Camp 3.2, and then to install Boot Camp 3.3?

Sep 3, 2011 6:00 PM in response to ignat1962

Couldn't get 3.3 to install over 3.2; Boot Camp 4.0 would install the Nvidia driver, but fail after that. I tried to repair "Apple Boot Camp Services" via add/remove software. That gave me an error; it also would fail trying to uninstall it. I finally tried removing the service with the Microsoft Cleanup Utility. That successfully removed the service and allowed me to install Boot Camp 4.0.

I did not unistall all of the associated drivers, just "Apple Boot Camp Services" from Windows 7 (Ultimate, 64-bit).

I don't know if this will work for you, but it did resolve my issue.

Sep 4, 2011 5:27 AM in response to -jeremiah-

All is clear, but as far as I know Boot Camp 4.0 is intended for OS X 10.7 Lion, but I am working on iMac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard (Windows 7 HomePremium, 32-bit).

ewilcind

Level 1

8 points

Nov 15, 2011 1:51 AM in response to -jeremiah-

Thanks - I had to uninstall logmein. I also had to do the upgrade from full reboot and not from witin a parallels VM of the bootcamp partition

The hatter

Level 9

61,001 points

Nov 15, 2011 3:55 AM in response to ignat1962

All that matters is that drivers install, not what the other OS is. Couldn't care less.

So use Boot Camp 4.x they are newer and less trouble.

All they do is enable support for hardware.

There is no "intented" only that Boot Camp Assistant download the driver, which even now is pretty much a farce and the lack of direct download - when I downlolad iOS 5.01 that clips right along.

And it has been this bad for a year since it was first added "feature" in 10.6.6.

This is one and only time I would have to say that it is crippled and bandwidth is throttled, given how a million people can update Lion and iOS but you can't download a small 600MB package in 5 or even 25 minutes, depending on YOUR bandwidth and wifi or ISP.

Dec 21, 2011 3:06 AM in response to E39M5

Thank you! flawlesly😁

Boot Camp 3.3 fail to install on my iMac