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

I ordered the imac with 5K Retina display early August and installed bootcamp successfully with Windows 7. Then I found out that no Windows app (even Wn 10) supports the super-charged retina display (all apps looked terrible, some text blurry and zoomed while other text was so small it was unreadable, all in the same app). Apple support peeps (4 different interactions) all told me that Windows can't run properly on the new imac retina 5K...would have been nice to hear this in all my pre-sales chats and store visit.

I returned the 5K and got a "regular" iMac. In setting it up today I had issues. Support told me it was bc I was using a Flash 3.0 instead of a 2.0 drive. Hmmm...well the 3.0 worked fine on my installation of bootcamp on the 5K imac. Anyway...changed to a 2.0 and it worked - until I got this message trying to boot into Windows for the first time.

I'm not really comfortable going into system folders and deleting drivers, etc. So these 2 most helpful solutions scare me a bit. Apple? Apple?

I was able to successfully install Win 7 on the imac 5K retina display purchased 1st week in August. Returned it for a "regular" imac but am now getting this same error.

UPDATE: I just spoke to Apple support and they told me that the most recent Yosemite update to 10.10.5 was on August 13th. I installed bootcamp successfully on August 8th on another computer. This support rep actually said that "it sounds like it's related to the Yosemite update".

Now the question is....can we rollback to the Yosemite version just before 10.10.5 and then test a bootcamp installation? I spoke to a supervisor who says yes and we went through the process of deleting the windows partition and reformatting the Mac OSX. Unfortunately it still booted into 10.10.5.

I'm waiting to hear back from Support about rolling back Yosemite to pre-10.10.5. I got this computer in the mail yesterday so I can't roll back via time machine. It came with 10.10.5.

If rolling back isn't possible....well...I'm not really a techie person so I'm not comfortable running through the 2 suggestions in this thread pertaining to deleting and replacing system files (especially since they didn't work for everyone in the thread).

Apple...please help!!!

I wrote back in the beginning of the discussion about this being a problem brought up by an update to Boot Camp drivers... there's no way this problem with this particular file would start out of the blue for so many people unless that was the case. I searched online and there was only this one discussion regarding the file AppleSSD.sys the first day I was having the problem. I noticed the guy started this thread the night before I started having my issues. I figured that was weird. I posted my first comment about having the issue and a few minutes later someone else, and then another one and another one.. I bet you there are plenty of forums now with threads about this..

Apple has been ignoring this problem pointing at Microsoft.. but this is a Boot Camp driver file that's defective.. called AppleSSD.sys.. no way this could be Microsoft's fault. I bet you this problem could be solved with a couple of code lines.. yet everybody has to go through **** and back due to Apple's lack of attention on problems reported by normal people. I bet you if someone in one of those mainstream blogs wrote a piece about the clusterf*** this update has brought upon windows 7 users you'd receive a fix within a day or two tops.. pretty annoying to be treated as if you were a moron when you are perfectly on point.

Good luck with this problem.. my email is being bombarded by this thread.. so I'm out.

To katehazelgreat: I also have an iMac 5K retina that came with 10.10.5 installed on it and I was able to install Windows 7... But there is a trick : you need to follow the very detailed instructions in Tooshy 1054's last post earlier in this thread (for me if here is page 12, his instructions are on page 10 of this thread).

Hi Tooshy1054, Your post has been SOOOO helpful....I'm stuck on one part though. I downloaded and installed Paragon. I see the BOOTCAMP in the list of available partitions in the Paragon NTFS "General" window. But I don't see the partition in my list of drives on the mac.

I'm not a big mac person so I wonder....am i just missing something simple? Perhaps I misunderstood that this can all be done using on the trial version and I have to activate the software with a license key to actually access the partition?

Any advice on this?

Thank you!!!

When I booted into Windows 7 (which I was thrilled even to finally get to this point), some things were not working properly as Tooshy described, including the video driver. How do you work around that without Paragon to update drivers?

This occurred on one iMac also. Is your video card and Nvidia? I browsed to their web site, downloaded the driver for my video card (this you can check from the Mac partition, About this Mac), installed it and it was all fine.

Pierre - honestly I don't know...I bought the iMac, period. I don't know what the graphics card is. But I don't see Nvidia in my device manager. Windows only sees a Generic Non-PnP monitor on Standard VGA Adapter and will only go to 1600x1200....no imac native display/resolution detected.

This is what is kinda dangerous about following directions on these blogs for people like me. It helped me get to a certain point and now I'm stuck. The Paragon support people never got back to me today.

Can anyone tell me why the NTFS partition wouldn't be showing up with in my Computer with my other partitions after being installed? I can't get past that step in Tooshy's directions.

I wish I could edit a post here....I found the Nvidia card listed on About This Mac as advised by Pierre (I was looking in the windows side). But of course it's not listed on the Nvidia website. It's the GT 755M. Went to Geforce.com. They list the 700M driver as a "laptop" driver. Worried about installing the wrong one so I ran their detection software which installed the "Game Ready Driver". Rebooted....and it all looks good, thanks!

Now it's always booting into Mac instead of Windows. Bootcamp/Windows isn't listed in my Startup Disk list on the Mac partition. I have to use the alt key to get a partition list every time I reboot.

There are little things like this that don't seem right so I'm worried that I'm going to get this computer all setup and then run into all kinds of weird problems as time goes on, updates are released, etc. Especially since I can't seem to get Paragon NTFS setup to work.

What a terribly stressful experience just trying to buy and use a Mac.

It isn't a start up disk. Hold down option if you want to switch disks. If you want to be asked each time, you need to use a boot manager. An NTFS partition not being active would be a reason it doesn't show up. But really the question would be what are you trying to do with xthat partition in the first place and why use Paragon at all. Windows does NTFS native. No reason to use Paragon unless you don't have Windows.

DubStep717 wrote:

No it isn't. Networking is comprised of standards. Standards that dont care about OS. If it is your job, you know how to do it easily.

There are several gaps which make it harder. Missing X11 (Cygwin or Hummingbird do work though). No *nix CLI (ssh/telnet/ftp/sftp/scp/vim/emacs/...). Wireless diagnostics are missing. No VNC (but TightVNC works). This is not just about TCP/IP.

Those things may or may not exist natively, but there are well known solutions to all of those. I can RDP to my Winodwd boxes from Linux and vice versa. Those without X are managed with an SSH client. If it's your job, you work it out.

A Quicker method for resolving the problem; boot again to the windows installer which should still be inserted by holding 'option' at boot, select 'repair your computer'. Let the startup repair run and then close the Window suggesting a reboot at this point. Select the startup utilities radio button, and then select command prompt. Cmd will launch from 'X:\' change this to C:\, then type 'del windows\system32\drivers\applessd.sys'. If you dont get an error and you return to a prompt, reboot and the installation will continue successfully. Be sure your installation media is still present. Time: 2 minutes.

DubStep717 wrote:

It isn't a start up disk. Hold down option if you want to switch disks. If you want to be asked each time, you need to use a boot manager. An NTFS partition not being active would be a reason it doesn't show up. But really the question would be what are you trying to do with xthat partition in the first place and why use Paragon at all. Windows does NTFS native. No reason to use Paragon unless you don't have Windows.

Apple's NTFS by default does not read-write. If there is no peripheral connectivity on the Windows side due to lack of drivers, then Paragon NTFS for Mac helps gets files from the OSX side to Windows (for example drivers), which can then be installed. Paragon can be removed after this is accomplished.

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