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No mouse or keyboard when booting Windows on late-2013 15" MBP (with 750m)

I generalized my Win7 x64 image from previous laptop (late-2008 MBP) using sysprep, and imaged it into a bootcamp partition using Winclone (on the new machine) + Target Disk Mode (on the old machine, over thunderbolt/firewire). Booting it asked me to run through the first use wizard, as expected after generalization, but the cursor and keyboard were both unresponsive. As with all future attempts, I tried with both the builtin trackpad and keyboard, and an external USB mouse + keyboard (via a USB hub). I am able to boot this installation from Parallels, and it works fine, but I can't install the Bootcamp drivers, since it doesn't think the VM needs them. After running the first-use wizard in Parallels, I can now boot to login screen natively, but mouse and keyboard are still unresponsive.

I also tried booting from two different Windows 7 x64 installation USB drives (one 8GB with the new Bootcamp drivers copied on and prepared by the Bootcamp Assistant, and one 4GB with the Bootcamp drivers copied onto a separate 4GB drive which was also plugged in at boot time).

I've also tried booting into Windows system recovery mode AND safe mode.

My GPT partition table is:

1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)

2 409640 1562909639 Mac OS X HFS+

3 1562909640 1564179175 Mac OS X Boot (I assume this is the recovery partition??)

4 1564180480 1857560575 Basic Data (This is NTFS - for Windows 7)

5 1857562624 1954209791 Basic Data (This is FAT)

My MBR table is:

1 40 409639 EE EFI Protective

2 409640 1562909639 AF Mac OS X HFS+

3 1562909640 1564179175 AF Mac OS X Boot

4 * 1564180480 1857560575 07 NTFS/HPFS

Bootcamp version is 5.1.1 (479)

MACBOOK PRO (RETINA, 15-INCH, LATE 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 15, 2013 10:41 AM

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mysticybiq

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Posted on Nov 16, 2013 2:58 PM

same issue. additional info -- creating a NEW bootcamp, and a fresh windows install does work on the new MBP retina;

Winclone+sysprep is not receiving the correct drivers.

The winclone+sysprep image is bootable in VMWARE fusion, and then I tried to be clever and manually install the bootcamp drivers from the USB image. (The \Bootcamp\setup.exe fails, the \bootcamp\drivers\apple\bootcamp.msi fails, the various \bootcamp\drivers\apple\apple*.exe appear to work ... but chipset and motherboard drivers appear to be inside of the bootcamp.msi)

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Mar 29, 2014 4:51 AM in response to elfprince13

I struggle 4 hours with a late 2013 macbook pro installing windows 7, here is how I solved the problems I had.

I went through the whole bootcamp process, with the 3 options ticked as on this picture:

http://www.softwarecrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BootCamp.png

On the first reboot, I had the "bootmgr is missing".

I went back to bootcamp assistant, selected the last option to remove the partition and then rebooted holding ALT and selecting the first Windows drive (I had 2, I'm not sure why).

Once on the windows installation screen (select language), I had no mouse, trackpad or keyboad, stuck again.

I went back again to OSX, you need to go in the osx preferences and turn off bluethooth so that proper drivers will be downloaded by the bootcamp assistant. So do that before using the bootcamp assistant.

I went through again the whole bootcamp assistant process, with the 3 boxes ticked and I was finally able to boot on the install and I had a keyboard and mouse to continue.

Hope that helps.

Romu

No mouse or keyboard when booting Windows on late-2013 15" MBP (with 750m)