USB ports/devices not working under Windows-7 after Bootcamp installation on MacBookPro Retina Late 2013. SOLUTION: Use USB 2.0 stick for Bootcamp driver downloads

You are the greatest! It took me hours to figure this out till I found your posting....Apple should make everyone aware of this issue... Phone support did not have this solution... It worked great!

I have a bit of a problem with this solution, I get the same problem with the USB3.0 ports not working in Windows 7 but I have been using a USB2.0 flash drive the whole time and it's not working

hi i have exactly the same question. I use a USB2.0 stick but yet the USB ports are dead when windows is installed.

Did you find any solution ? please reply

thanks

I never found a solution, it was a friends macbook and I don't have access to it anymore. Hopefully someone finds a fix.

Thanks for the USB2 tip, it was my problem.

But I did not have a 8GB USB2 stick.
So here's an other way, using a USB3 stick: just use a USB2 hub!

I plugged my old USB2 hub to the MacBook, and my USB3 stick on the hub, and it worked.

i encounted the same problem after the BootCamp installation - all USB ports are dead. after uninstall Intel's driver from program manager, ports revived, although it's now USB 2.0.

ok guys i had the same problem in my new macbook retina. The problem is not entirely the USB. The windows version u are trying to install is either pirated or cracked.

Try installing the original windows 7 or 8 90 day trial version from Microsoft website and then it flows flawlessly. No USB or any other problem.

After installing the trial version using USB 2.0 (bought 3 yrs agao) the installation completed successfully and all USB ports were working perfectly and no red light in the headphone jack!

just for the sake of checking your mac's hardware try the windows trial if it works means the USB is not the problem and your windows copy is not original.

I am 100% sure windows trial version will work with no errors.try and let us know

thanks

I can confirm that using a usb2 hub will "cheat" the problem.

I looked over at my PC and saw my Razor keyboard which has an addition USB port. I said what the ****, grabbed the keyboard and hooked it to my wifes Mac. It detected the KEYBOARD! I picked up the USB3 with the precious files inside and plugged it into the keyboard - Success!

This reminds me. When I installed Windows 7 on my 2011 MBP, I kept losing power to the USB ports. I checked the properties in the device drivers (USB BUS) and there is a power conservation option that was checked by default. It was labled something like "power down the USB bus to conserve energy" or something similar. So I unchecked that box on each USB bus properties and no more issues ever. This issue sounds like it's been solved and a different issue from mine, though it seems worth a look at those driver properties for this really dumb default selection that seemed to power down the usb port whenever it felt like it.

Good point. I saw a youtube video about this very point you're making. The guy downloaded under his license and those installations presented similar issues. Only when he downloaded the trial from Microsoft did it install the drivers and the install went smoothly. http://youtu.be/m9oMz5rMkD8

Also, after he got the trial version, he had to delete the bootcamp partition and start from scratch with the Windows 7 trial package. So if you use that from the get go, the drivers should install correctly. Check out his other videos, problem 1, 2, 3.

After keyboard and mouse freezes, here's what he did- http://youtu.be/jCPpbJB5LzI

Another solution:

1. Burn the Bootcamp drivers to a CD-ROM.
2. Run Bootcamp to create a Windows 7 partition and install Windows 7.
3. After Windows 7 is installed use the CD-ROM in step 1 to load all the Apple/Windows drivers.

I tried loading the Windows drivers using a USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 stick with no luck. Using the CD-ROM instead worked and all the drivers loaded perfectly.