Win7 x86 drivers for Mac Mini late 2012?

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Win7 x86 drivers for Mac Mini late 2012?

Hi everyone,

Today installed windows 7 to a brand new hard drive (not the one thatcame from the box) on my Mac Mini WITHOUT using Bootcamp or EFI bios emulator. Now I have a problem: No Drivers. Everyone uses drivers from Bootcamp, but I don't have those. Please tell where can I find them or should I replace the HDD with the one from the box, boot to Mac OS, install Bootcamp and make a USB drive with drivers? Maybe someone can make a copy of the drivers and upload them?

Mac mini, Windows 7, No Mac OS experience

Posted on Nov 21, 2012 1:05 PM

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Answer 1

Rudegar

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Nov 24, 2012 12:34 PM in response to dentikhval

IN bootcamp IN osx one have the option to create a disc with all the required Windows drivers for the mac

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Csound1

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Nov 25, 2012 8:01 AM in response to dentikhval

Boot to OSX and use Boot Camp Assistant to download the drivers. (Boot Camp is already installed in OSX)

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AidenT

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Nov 28, 2012 4:41 AM in response to dentikhval

I think most of you don't understand the problem.

We are setting up BootCamp the same (correct) way.

Run BootCamp Assistant.

Point to the Win7 32bit x86 ISO and assign them to be installed to the USB drive.

After Win7 is installed, there are no drivers installed for Win7 32 bit.

You go to the WINDOWSUPPORT folder and the files are all for 64 bit Windows. The Setup won't run. Neither do any of the individual driver files. All of them have a 64 moniker to the file names.

If I choose the 64 bit Win7, no issue. The drivers are installed correctly.

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AidenT

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Dec 1, 2012 10:31 PM in response to AidenT

I managed a sorta workaround using my other Macs in the house. I used a MBA2011 to download the BootCamp Windowssuport drivers and put it on a USB stick.

The main "setup" refused to run saying it's not for this Mac.

But some of the individual driver files worked. I still have some bluetooth drivers missing (even tho I installed all the BT components from the Windowssupport folder) and I had to download the Intel HD4000 graphics and chipset drivers from Intel.

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AidenT

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Dec 1, 2012 10:36 PM in response to AidenT

These are the HD4000 graphics drivers

Intel® HD Graphics Driver for Windows 7* and Windows 8* (exe)

These are the chipset drivers

Chipset: Intel® Chipset Device Software for Intel® Desktop Boards

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