[urgent]get "appleSSD.sys" error when installing windows 7 through bootcamp

Hello, im using I Mac late 2013, I tried to reinstall windows 7, everything went well until the applessd.sys error displays...i've overcome the problem by deleting the applessd.sys in the windows partition...the windows installation went well until my wired keyboard and mouse not working. It seems they didi not recognize my wired keyboard and mouse. It was working fine when I'm in Mac. I was stuck at the windows registry where i supposed to key in my name for my windows name. but my wired keyboard and mouse is malfunction. Any solution guys?? Please. Tq.

i had exact same issue with the method you are using. That's why I suggest you completely start over, restore the partition. and follow my original post:

A few more details added in bold below to this post that helped:

SUCCESS AT LAST!! Here's what you need: Windows 7 image, an 8GB or higher USB 2.0 flash drive (A 3.0 USB will fail after rebooting, before selecting the BOOT CAMP partition - also ensure no External HDD is connected via USB during this process), and the old Boot Camp drivers 5.1 something. They are hardware specific and available for download Apple Site. Click this link, each hardware needs different bootcamp files.(System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support)

1. Using Boot Camp Assistant, prepare the USB flash drive. Select the first two items and prepare the disk. Quit Boot Camp Assistant.
2. From the Finder, delete the $WinPE$ and Boot Camp folders and AutoUnattend.xml from the FLASH DRIVE.
3. Expand the old Boot Camp drivers (they are a zip file) on your desktop or in your downloads.
4. Copy the $WinPE$ and Boot Camp folders and AutoUnattend.xml to the FLASH DRIVE.
5. Reopen Boot Camp Assistant and select only the third option, install Windows 7.
6. Sit back and relax as the installation proceeds.

Mine is currently running perfectly. All the other methods I tried did not install Boot Camp or the drivers properly. This one installs it all correctly. Hope this helps someone out there. I've read all the comments and pieced this method together by a lot of trial and error. GOOD LUCK!

I just decided to create an account here because this is getting frustrating and since I am hoping someone at Apple reads this thread, I will be extra pedagogical.

I have a Macbook Pro 15 inch Retina mid 2014 and am trying to install Windows 7 Professional. If I do everything according to Apple's instructions, I can't install Windows at all because of the appleSSD.sys "windows cannot verify the digital signature" during the Windows 7 installation.

Hey Apple!, tip 1: Please fix this issue. Installing Boot Camp should not be any more difficult than following your own guidance. And clearly, all these threads suddenly booming the apple support forums about this issue is indication that this is an Apple issue, and has nothing to do with Microsoft. So please, no blame game.

If I try doing it according to Tooshy1054's instructions, there is another problem: I can install Windows but not any drivers. According to the Apple Support pages, the version of the Bootcamp I need is labeled BCA, i.e. only available through the Boot Camp Assistent. However, if I download these drivers via BCA after having completed a Windows 7 installation and then running setup in Windows, I get the error message saying that the drivers are incorrect for my machine.

Hey Apple!, tip 2: Clearly there is something wrong with the current version of Boot Camp Assistent since it downloads the wrong Boot Camp drivers for my computer. Please fix this issue and please, if you can't fix this issue quickly, givs us the option to manually download the latest boot camp drivers intended for our specific setups. Simplified solutions are wonderful when they actually work, but when they don't, this is the drawback, so why not let us manually find the correct drivers (preferably via a simple "choose your mac setup" from a list of all possible setups and then giving us the correct drivers. Almost all other driver downloads works like this for a reason, the current system seems messy in comparison)

Following Tooshy1054's further instructions, it would seem we have the same setup, but the 5.1.5621 drivers give me the same error message as the ones I get via the BCA "wrong for this machine etc." This is weird. On one link, the Apple pages claim my Macbook Pro 15 inch Retina mid 2014 should use 5.1.5621 but when I go to the Swedish sites (and follow other links) it says BCA.

The only ones that seem to do anything is 5.1.5640, which shouldn't be the correct ones for my machine?! With 5.1.5640 I can start the boot camp drivers setup process, but I always get BSOD at the end of installation which "bricks" Windows 7, forcing recovery mode's "reset windows to an earlier date when it worked". This has happened during the three times I have had to go through partitioning/installing Windows 7 Prof via Boot Camp. And I am getting really annoyed at how difficult it is to find proper drivers for my machine.

Is there any way to manually install all boot camp drivers in Windows 7? How do I do this? Any other tips?

Thanks to Tooshy1054 and other heplful people trying to remedy something that someone at Apple should have a look at.

SwedishMeatball wrote:

Hey Apple!, tip 1: Please fix this issue. Installing Boot Camp should not be any more difficult than following your own guidance. And clearly, all these threads suddenly booming the apple support forums about this issue is indication that this is an Apple issue, and has nothing to do with Microsoft. So please, no blame game.

Apple Bug ID 22285185 with examples and screen shots and supporting materials have been provided to 'authorities'. 😉

If I try doing it according to Tooshy1054's instructions, there is another problem: I can install Windows but not any drivers. According to the Apple Support pages, the version of the Bootcamp I need is labeled BCA, i.e. only available through the Boot Camp Assistent. However, if I download these drivers via BCA after having completed a Windows 7 installation and then running setup in Windows, I get the error message saying that the drivers are incorrect for my machine.

The error message you see is perfectly legitimate. There is no BCA in the following matrix. 😉

From System requirements to install Windows 7 and earlier on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support,

MacBook Pro

From Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621

Post Date: Feb 11, 2014

File Size: 924.9 MB

System Requirements

• MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Mid 2011)
• MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Mid 2012)
• MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, Mid 2010)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, & 15-inch, Early 2011)
• MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch,15-inch & 17-inch Late 2011)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch & 15-inch, Mid 2012)
• MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
• MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012)
• MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch and 15-inch, Early 2013)
• Mac Pro (Early 2009)
• Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
• Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
• Mac mini (Mid 2011)
• Mac mini (Late 2012)
• iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
• iMac (21.5-inch & 27-inch, Mid 2011)
• iMac (21.5-inch & 27-inch, Late 2012)
• iMac (21.5-inch) Early 2013
• Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, 64 bit

From Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5640

Post Date: Feb 11, 2014

File Size: 925.6 MB

System Requirements

• MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Mid 2013)
• MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch & 15-inch, Late 2013)
• Mac Pro (Late 2013)
• iMac (21.5-inch & 27-inch, Late 2013)
• Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, 64 bit

The Mid 2014 and Late 2013 models have minor differences.

Hey Apple!, tip 2: Clearly there is something wrong with the current version of Boot Camp Assistent since it downloads the wrong Boot Camp drivers for my computer. Please fix this issue and please, if you can't fix this issue quickly, givs us the option to manually download the latest boot camp drivers intended for our specific setups. Simplified solutions are wonderful when they actually work, but when they don't, this is the drawback, so why not let us manually find the correct drivers (preferably via a simple "choose your mac setup" from a list of all possible setups and then giving us the correct drivers. Almost all other driver downloads works like this for a reason, the current system seems messy in comparison)

No. BC6 drivers are clearly meant for Windows 10. Using BCA to download drivers, which has no a priori knowledge that you want to install W7, W8 or W10 is where the confusion is. The order in BCA needs to ask which version of Windows you want to itall first, before it downloads the version valid for that specific version of Windows. This is a design issue in BCA and Apple chose to leave the BCA order to avoid user surprises, but did not consider the various combinations. Your assessment, however, is correct. Let the user have some control.

Following Tooshy1054's further instructions, it would seem we have the same setup, but the 5.1.5621 drivers give me the same error message as the ones I get via the BCA "wrong for this machine etc." This is weird. On one link, the Apple pages claim my Macbook Pro 15 inch Retina mid 2014 should use 5.1.5621 but when I go to the Swedish sites (and follow other links) it says BCA.

The only ones that seem to do anything is 5.1.5640, which shouldn't be the correct ones for my machine?! With 5.1.5640 I can start the boot camp drivers setup process, but I always get BSOD at the end of installation which "bricks" Windows 7, forcing recovery mode's "reset windows to an earlier date when it worked". This has happened during the three times I have had to go through partitioning/installing Windows 7 Prof via Boot Camp. And I am getting really annoyed at how difficult it is to find proper drivers for my machine.

Is there any way to manually install all boot camp drivers in Windows 7? How do I do this? Any other tips?

This - Boot Camp: Solve Windows support software installation problems - is a manual procedure of reinstalling specific drivers. Usually, the US sites get updates first. Provide Product feedback to Apple to correct the Swedish sites.

Thanks for putting this together. I also had spent phone time with both "Apple couldn't care less" and Redmond. I think we know where the blame really resides. In any case, after a number of attempts (finally bumping up and formatting the Bootcamp partition to 60 GB) and loading up all the necessary files, and re-running the setups after an initial Win7 and after the Win10 upgrade using the SlySoft free mounter for Windows, all is well. Quite a pain and consumption of time.

So Sorry if someone has posted this already and many thanks to Loner T for pointing me to this thread but can someone link me to the proper boot camp version I should be using in order to get my windiws 7 back onto my iMac 21.5 late 2013. Been at this a week now and slowly dying with frustration

TIA

femfrankie

Here you go: System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support

pick your Windows version and it will get you on the way...

Thank you so much all. It's been 7 long days of partitioning.. unpartitioning.. Etc etc and I'm glad to say that thanks to all your help windows 7 is finally in and as far as I'm aware fully operational!!! I can not thank you all enough. Happy happy happy

now now for a silly question do I keep a hold of the install usb??

femfrankie

femfrankie wrote:

now now for a silly question do I keep a hold of the install usb??

Create a Disk Image of the USB stick as is using Disk Utility and store it in at least two places. Apple's updates may not allow you to get this back to the same state via BCA in the future. This is as good as a DVD of an installer that works. It is about 4-5GB. Please keep it.

Thanks for the solution! It helped me..

Thanks LonerT this is what i thought 🙂

thanks bro, this steps works!!!! you saved my life!!! although it seems like i can't move my cursor and type in. any idea what went wrong?

I came across this issue also but found the answer to my issue in another post. You have to use a USB 2 memory stick not a 3 Something to do with windows 7 not recognising the newer stick and drivers required to make it operational... I think.

Kflashdotcom's procedure (page 13) worked perfectly for me. I'm using a Mac Book Pro 13" Mid 2012 (i.e. pre retina) with 500GB HDD (no SSD), 4GB Ram, Intel HD4000 graphics.

I've now successfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 with no problems after replacing the current Boot Camp drivers with those downloaded in version 5.1.5621 (the correct version for my Mac Book). All hardware seems to work.

THANKS!!

I actually figured out the whole replacing bootcamp driver's on the usb with once downloaded from apples website, everything worked except the graphics driver from NVidia but I just downloaded thet directly from them, only problem im having is that windows update does not want to work 😟 any one else having this problem?