I have Mid-2012 Macbook Pro with a SSD drive installed. I installed a fresh windows 7 64bit pro and now I get this error when trying to open the bootcamp control panel.
"an error occurred while trying to access the startup disk settings"
I want to be able to right click Restart in Mac OS X but this doesn't work. It boots to a white screen and then it goes to windows again.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 2007 Macbook Pro
You will need to reset SMC.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
Are the Bootcamp Drives installed on the Windows side? Do you have a Boot Camp option in Control Panel -> System?
Yes and yes
This didn't work still same error.
Please download System requirements to install Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp - Apple Support for your specific Mac year/model. Once you have the appropriate drivers then Boot Camp: Install or repair Boot Camp drivers.
Post back, if you still run into issues.
Already did that still broken.
Can you please elaborate on what you mean by fresh W7 64 Pro? Is this a re-installation on the same partition? Was the old installation deleted via BCA?
A brand new clean install of Windows 7 64Bit.
Do you have a Boot Camp option in Control Panel -> System? Does that behave any differently?
Yes I do the problem is unless you create a shortcut to run as a user you can't open it. The other issue is the startup disk tab is never an option. You just can't reboot into Mac OS from Windows unless you do a restart and hold the option button.
When the Boot Camp drivers are installed, they are installed for all users silently, because it is done as a part of the Windows installation, before any user accounts have been created.
The following snippet is from the AutoUnattend.xml on the USB Installer. See the highlighted part. This is from a W8 USB Installer built using BCA and an W8.1 64-bit ISO.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="windowsPE">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup"processorArchitecture="amd64"publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"language="neutral"versionScope="nonSxS"xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<UserData>
<ProductKey>
<WillShowUI>Always</WillShowUI>
</ProductKey>
</UserData>
<UpgradeData>
<Upgrade>true</Upgrade>
<WillShowUI>Always</WillShowUI>
</UpgradeData>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsWinPE"processorArchitecture="amd64"publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"language="neutral"versionScope="nonSxS"xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<DriverPaths>
<PathAndCredentials wcm:keyValue="1" wcm:action="add">
<Path>$WinPEDriver$</Path>
</PathAndCredentials>
</DriverPaths>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment"processorArchitecture="amd64"publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"language="neutral"versionScope="nonSxS"xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<RunSynchronous>
<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>1</Order>
<Path>cmd /c "FOR %i IN (X F E D C) DO (FOR /F "tokens=6" %t in ('vol %i:') do (IF /I %t NEQ "" (IF EXIST %i:\BootCamp\BootCamp.xml Reg ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v AppsRoot /t REG_SZ /d %i /f )))"</Path>
</RunSynchronousCommand>
</RunSynchronous>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup"processorArchitecture="amd64"publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"language="neutral"versionScope="nonSxS"xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<FirstLogonCommands>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Description>AMD CCC Setup</Description>
<CommandLine>%AppsRoot%:\BootCamp\Drivers\ATI\ATIGraphics\Bin64\ATISetup.exe -Install</CommandLine>
<Order>1</Order>
<RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Description>BootCamp setup</Description>
<CommandLine>%AppsRoot%:\BootCamp\setup.exe</CommandLine>
<Order>2</Order>
<RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
</SynchronousCommand>
</FirstLogonCommands>
</component>
</settings>
</unattend>
Can you check your Windows Installer USB for this file? You may not have one for W7 64-bit. This is what I have on a W7 USB.
I was think and maybe this doesn't matter but this is the pattern of how this all went down.
I had a Macbook Pro 2010 with bootcamp windows 7 64bit and Mac os 10.10 installed on a SSD. I then got a different Macbook Pro 2012 moved the drive to that one. I had to do a clean install of Windows 7 64bit this error started then. I then decided to do a fresh install of Mac Os as well. So maybe I need to do a fresh install on both at the same time. So a fresh install of Mac and then create a bootcamp with windows 7 64bit. Thoughts?
appleexpert1 wrote:
Read this:
http://blogote.com/apple/solution-unable-to-access-boot-camp-control-panel-on-wi ndows-8-os/27397/
The initial silent install for all users failed. 😟. But good to know a potential work-around. Thanks.
The Control Panel issue is specific to Windows. Yosemite re-installation may not change the behavior.
So maybe a clean fresh install of Windows 7 64bit?
Boot Camp Control Panel Windows 7 64Bit
