No trackpad or keyboard on Windows installer

turbostar wrote:

Agreed plus depends on OP and you, some like to figure out why something doesn't work

It is also a learning opportunity for future such problems.😎

Based on your screen shot of /dev/disk0 and the Install starting up, the disk partitioning seems to be correct. I assume you have only one disk. If the Installer is trying to install it on the USB, then it will fail. The USB is readable, otherwise the installer would not even start, so a USB2/USB3 issue is not a logical conclusion that I can draw.

Since the installer cannot be made to go to the disk selection screen, loading files should be all it should do.

There should be a autorun.inf file in the root of the USB directory, which looks like this.

[AutoRun.Amd64]

open=setup.exe

icon=setup.exe,0

[AutoRun]

open=sources\sperr32.exe x64

icon=sources\sperr32.exe,0

Can you change it to

[AutoRun.Amd64]

open=setup.exe /unattend:AutoUnattend.xml

icon=setup.exe,0

[AutoRun]

open=sources\sperr32.exe x64

icon=sources\sperr32.exe,0

and see if it makes any difference.

I will try and create a full unattended .xml file and post a link to it.

i know you don't want to but you HAVE to get a new ISO, just leave it in the background, or find a friend or a coffee shop where you can DL faster

the new flash drive alone MIGHT work but i know the combo of the new flash drive plus new ISO WILL work - unless you have an hw issue, which seems very unlikely

Please review the XML here - http://www.efshare.com/?s=Z2MYRD

The updates are based on http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/1402 and made to the original file generated by Bootcamp. Safari can open XML.

Some values need to be edited before use.

Corrected an error. http://efshare.com/?s=7KWJX6

I'm running into the exact same problem with a 14" MacBook Air 2014 model.

Gotta say, its quite aggravating seeing that this thread is allowed to run this long and Apple support still did not step in to resolve the problem. Apple having complete knowledge on hardware they make should be responsible for having Boot Camp Assistant download the exact correct driver for the particular hardware.

Seeing end user has to troubleshoot this far and deep is quite unlike Apple. I have also been a long time Mac user and have used BootCamp many times in the past never having this kind of problems. I hope Apple's quality standard don't follow Steve Jobs to wherever he is now....

stevenh, same solution i've offered to bradley, buy a usb2 only drive and use a new ISO (if w7)

http://techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/

If you want to try the unattended installation with the updated XML, you are more than welcome to try it. It will provide additional feedback and I can add it as a bug report under Bootcamp for Apple to address. 😉

Please backup all your important data first.

please mark the solution, this question gets asked so much here so hopefully others will find it more easily

Thanks Turbostar.

You can enable the Secondary click in Bootcamp under the "One Finger" column by picking the appropriate corner for the setting.

Great, really great.

I've been trying too to install Windows 7 for days and I failed miserably again and again, following every method suggested here and there.

Until I read this post. It didn't work at first, but after I deleted my BootCamp partition and started all over again from scratch, there it was: no more locked screen from the Windows installer, Set up just did its job and the Magic Mouse worked quite normally right away. YES it works.

Thousand thanks to turbostar, your advice really made my day 🙂

turbostar, I have the same problem and tried your method: I bought a new USB 2.0 Stick and downloaded the new ISO. However the problem remains the same... I'm stuck on the first screen of the windows installation process.

boot camp does not give an option to delete the partition, it's only possible to create a new one (from the already reduced Macintosh HD).

Disk utility shows the windows partition as "free space". I tried to create a partition on this free space with disk utility, but that also does not work.

Any idea what I could do?