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

Do your USB devices work once actually booted into windows itself? My keyboard works in startup as it did in setup along with the mouse but they now fail to work when windows is fully loaded up. Weird.

Yes - they're working no problem - that is weird! Did you click on "setup.exe" in the Bootcamp folder (which is saved to the external drive) once you were in Windows as this should install all the drivers you need.

@Tooshy1054 hey thanks for the advise. I've reinstalled windows 7 using Viking's method. But i dont have a usb2.0. Everything went well but currently i'm still missing the same 5 drivers. Multimedia controller, network controller, PCI Simple Communications controller, SM Bus Controller, Universal serial bus Controller.

As you can see i'm missing the USB Driver so i can't run the file from my USB so i have to write the files directly to the Windows Disk.

I have transferred the whole usb stick into a folder in Windows Disk, locate BootCamp folder and run setup.exe but it still says..This version of boot camp is not intended for this computer model.

II'm glad they do for you Tom! If I could double click that folder I'd have USB running ok . I do recall the machine auto running some scripting via a CMD pop up box when Windoze first loaded and that may well have been setup.exe.

Okay i've found a solution if you are encountering the same problem as me.

If you cannot run setup.exe and it gives you the error "not compatible with this model"

you just need to run the bootcamp.msi located in BootCamp>drivers>apple>bootcamp.msi.

How ever you will encounter an error code about privileged permission. Fret not all you have to do is run CMD.EXE with administrator. You won't be able to right click without bootcamp being installed but shift + F10 does the trick. click one CMD.exe, press shift+F10 and run as administrator.

next navigate you the file bootcamp.msi, like Tooshy1054 did, i created the folder Bootcamp_driver in my C:\ drive

The commands are cd \Bootcamp_driver > cd bootcamp > cd drivers > cd apple > bootcamp.msi

And viola ! The setup.exe will run and it will install all the drivers.

I am having some kind of problem with the drivers or something, I had the same problem and thanks to Viking I have already installed Windows 7. But... My screen still 800x600, and if I run setup.exe into the BootCamp folder, nothing changes... Yesterday I had the same problem and I decided to install manually the Nvidia drivers, but after that I had some kind of problem and I couldn't activate Windows Aero, for instance

Any solution? Thanks.

I have been working on this for two days now. I do not get a anything to work even when removing AppleSSD.sys. Once I do this, I try to run the bootcamp installer and it says "bootcamp is not intended for this computer model". AppleCare has no idea what to do I am now waiting for a reply from their engineering department apparently. Very frustrating...

Those screens are confusingly laid out pointing out a negative instead of showing which systems work with them they do the opposite, defying normal software description conventions. Apple should sort that out IMHO.

I have finally managed to get my system up an running correctly by doing a fresh install using 5.1.5.621 added to my flash drive. The bootcamp setup actually auto ran itself and after losing USB momentarily all came good. So thanks to all for your help. It seems that early 2014 version works for Win 7 x64 at least for my late 2012 Mac mini running an Intel SSD as system drive.

AS a final note is there any way of paring down the Windows installation as it's rather large considering?

IH_photo wrote:

Those screens are confusingly laid out pointing out a negative instead of showing which systems work with them they do the opposite, defying normal software description conventions. Apple should sort that out IMHO.

The list of systems the software does not apply to are listed first.

Expanding System Requirements shows you systems it should be used for. The overall matrix is not split across Windows versions, which is even harder to find.

Loner T wrote:

IH_photo wrote:

Those screens are confusingly laid out pointing out a negative instead of showing which systems work with them they do the opposite, defying normal software description conventions. Apple should sort that out IMHO.

The list of systems the software does not apply to are listed first.

Expanding System Requirements shows you systems it should be used for. The overall matrix is not split across Windows versions, which is even harder to find.

"The list of systems the software does not apply to are listed first" - that's my point : it defies all normal conventions and is thus counterintuitive.

It would be much clearer to list the systems it DID apply to first and have those it didn't in an expandable link instead underneath.

The systems it applies to are listed in System Requirements section as a standard, including older releases of BC drivers. Apple just changed the layout of all it's help articles for W10, which also takes a bit of getting used to. Apple, however can add a note.

The new style of listing what Macs are supported for specific Windows versions is also causing some angst.

It is interesting that very few people actually read the System Requirements and just recommend a BC Driver package without asking for the specifics of the Mac.

Now that Apple is folding all version numbers into BC Assistant (OS X) or Apple Software Update (Windows 10), the version numbering will become obsolete pretty quickly and manual downloads will follow suit.

Loner T wrote:

The systems it applies to are listed in System Requirements section as a standard, including older releases of BC drivers. Apple just changed the layout of all it's help articles for W10, which also takes a bit of getting used to. Apple, however can add a note.

The new style of listing what Macs are supported for specific Windows versions is also causing some angst.

It is interesting that very few people actually read the System Requirements and just recommend a BC Driver package without asking for the specifics of the Mac.

Now that Apple is folding all version numbers into BC Assistant (OS X) or Apple Software Update (Windows 10), the version numbering will become obsolete pretty quickly and manual downloads will follow suit.

I know it's listed in a link below and that's how I made a correct choice - I'm making the point (again) that it's an arse backwards way of informing people and leads to confusion. That info should be up top and not hidden below as people are, understandabl, expecting that.

Awesome. Thanks Viking Vol and Loner T. You finally directed me to the correct Version of Bootcamp (bootcamp5.1.5769) that worked fine for me (iMac 5K) in Win7. Why didn't I find these bootcamp verisons when searching for Downloads on apple.com myself?

Now I registered for the free Win10 Upgrade and cross fingers that it works. When I try to manually install the upgrade using the Media Creation Tool there is an error message "unsupported commando string" or something (it is in German).

I still need help with this 😟, I am pretty sure I have chosen the correct Boot Camp drivers, but when I follow the steps by Viking, and I finally install Windows, Nvidia drivers are missing, if I install them manually, when I reboot my computer, automatically there is a problem and I can't use Aero transparences for instance. And I don't know the cause of the problem. Anyone had this problem and solved it?

Edit: when I install Nvidia drivers and reboot my computer, what crashes is "dwm.exe". I have and iMac 21,5, 2013 and I install 5.1.5640 bootcamp drivers following the Viking Vol method of copying bootcamp and $winpen$

Hi all,

Been following this post for the past day. Having a bit of an issue having windows recognizing my mouse and keyboard. they both work when i first get to the installation screen, but when I get to "Name your computer" Screen, the mouse and keyboard become non-functional.

I tried to replace the $name$ and Bootcamp files from the ones I downloaded online. (That was to counter the AppleSSD.sys error.) And still couldn't get the keyboard functional. I found a temporary fix that allowed temporary access (good for one boot) that allowed access to my mouse and keyboard.

*for anyone who wants that fix"

1. Open terminal

2. Paste this text: sudo /usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s4 --setBoot --nextonly --legacy

3. Reboot (Do not hold in Option/Alt Key)

I installed all the drivers and rebooted, but the Keyboard and mouses still don't work.

Running a Early 2014 Macbook Air.

Any help would be great.

thanks