Cannot download windows support

Nothing to offer as help... other than to say it just took me about 3 hours with several restarts to get the Windows support files to download. It finally 'took' after restarting the Bootcamp process five or six times.

Same problem - did all updated on my Macboor Air 11" with Lion OSX

Boot Camp Assistant 4.0.1 (429)

'Downloading Windows support software' is very very slow / hanged? left it for 5 hours and the bar is not moving.

I install windows without the support software. After installing Windows tried downloading BootCamp 3.3 for Windows, but tells me it is not required - I still need the Windows Drivers for my air..... wish if there were an offline version to download! Guess I will wait again like paul...

Ok finsihed - it took 4 hours to download 673MB of windows support files!!!!!!

Very slow and it is not my connection either!

I have the same problem!!! is there any solution to this..

vaibhav101help wrote:

I have the same problem!!! is there any solution to this..

Patience

Unfortunatly the only solution is to wait... :/

Hi -

Since almost a day, I'm trying to download the Windows Support files to get Bootcamp installed.

It always fails after a while, telling me that the software is not available on the Software Update Server. I'm stuck here, since it won't let me proceed to partion my harddrive.

Mac OS X 10.7.2

Bootcamp 4.0.1

Anyone any idea?

immo_from_here wrote:

Hi -

Since almost a day, I'm trying to download the Windows Support files to get Bootcamp installed.

It always fails after a while, telling me that the software is not available on the Software Update Server. I'm stuck here, since it won't let me proceed to partion my harddrive.

Mac OS X 10.7.2

Bootcamp 4.0.1

Anyone any idea?

As I stated earlier, it works but you will need to keep trying, there is not an alternative source, millions of people have or are downloading the software so with patience you'll get yours.

Hi -

I think my situation might be different. It is not slow, but aborts.

I checked the install.log and discover this information just before I get the message, that the software is not available on the update server,

Oct 28 18:20:21 icapple diskmanagementd[481]: DM <-T-[DMToolBootPreference recoveryPartitionInfoForVolume:what:dict:]: retErr=-69842 outInfoDict=(null)

Oct 28 18:20:21 icapple Software Update[491]: recoverySystemVersion: could not get recovery version information for mount point /: Das Medium konnte nicht aktiviert werden. (-69842)

Oct 28 18:20:21 icapple Software Update[491]: Package Authoring: error running volume-check script: TypeError: 'null' is not an object (evaluating 'my.target.recoverySystemVersion.ProductBuildVersion') at x-distribution:///installer-gui-script%5B1%5D/volume-check%5B1%5D/@script

Any idea?

Actually I got my bootcamp support software downloaded after installing windows and it works fine....

Same problem here. I've restarted the process several times due to mistakenly thinking it had stalled (had to discover online that it is in fact ridiculously slow as it gives no indication of the speed it is downloading). Then I got half way after a couple hours but it announced there was no more room in my USB stick - apparently my fault that it doesn't give me any idea what size the download is going to be. In the middle of another attempt right now... at 20% and apparently this is going to be approx. 700mb download (maybe??). Normally this would mean I should have about 3 minutes to wait. This will instead take a few hours (maybe???). Well done Apple. **** you for wasting an entire Sunday of my time.

Can anyone put the files somewhere tht others could download them. If I had them I would host them. As Apple told me to use 3.3 and my Mac Pro tell me in Windows 7 I do not need it.

HELP!!!

you need 3.0 first in order to upgrade to 3.3, and Windows 7 does need 3.1 or later, or Lion and 4.01.

"tacking on" to a months old thread with just brief message doesn't help you or us or your Mac Pro workstation.