Boot Camp Update error 2753

I ran into issues getting a customer's 24" inch iMac 6_1 (2007) to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 with a stop at Vista along the way to preserve programs.

The Vista to Windows 7 jump failed and rolled back to Vista so some of the steps needed were:

1. Upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6
2. Update Vista to Vista SP2
3. Upgrade to Boot Camp 3.0 (boot into Vista and open the Snow Leopard DVD) - NOTE: other updates won't work without 3.0.

Then it got fun.

I downloaded the 3.1 updater form teh Boot Camp downloads offered by Apple.(http://support.apple.com/downloads/#macoscomponents)

Trying to update Boot Camp drivers to 3.1 gave the error:

"Boot Camp Services: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2753."

Some solutions said to reinstall BootCamp but Boot Camp was not found in the "Programs and Features" control panel.

I was also told that deleting c:\windows\system32\AppleOSSMgr.exe (maybe renaming it would do?) would bypass this error but this file was not present.

Faulty install from teh OS 10.6 DVD? (copying the files and folders from DVD to local disk may work better. Didn't try)

On an act of desperation I booted into Vista and ran START > Programs > Apple Software Update and Apple Software Update knew 3.0 was installed!

It was able to update just fine.

After reboot, "Apple Application Support" and "Boot Camp services" were listed in Programs and Features.

Boot Camp control panel was listed, but would not launch "Application not found."

Apple Software Update offered me Boot Camp 3.1 again, so I'm going to try the 3.2 updater from the downloads page. (May try to "Repair" Boot Camp 3.1 from Programs and Features" control panel as well)

Also note there is a Windows 7 upgrade utility/patch offered there for anyone moving from Vista.

Maybe this was an obvious fix for the 2753, but I might save others ten minutes.

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