Hello!
Yesterday I took the plunge with my MacBook white 13inch that I bought
in 2009. I made the partition and inserted the windows7 home premium
and booted into it, with sighted help of course, pressed enter twice,
accepted the license then enter, c for custom or advanced, chose the
bootcamp partition but windows oem cd could not install to a
unformatted ntfs drive and this old woman who tried to help me couldn't
figure out how shall I do to format it. Then I decided go the very
long way of xp, we booted into xp from bootcamp, did the required and
formatted the drive, installed xp but the machine booted always into
mac, I forced it to boot into xp, it kept complaining about some
missing files from oem xp cd, but pressing ok a couple of times solved
the problem.
Having done xp setup with her I decided put windows7 over it, this of
course after putting bootcamp drivers sure. With clean install of xp I
installed 7 over it completely. Now came the critical moment, I wanted
my drivers back into 7. Windows7 refused to install them from the dvd
that came with my mac in 2009 and spoke about compatibility issues and
couldn't run the setup, of course I had speech at this point throough
usb both with xp and 7 with the only difference that the drivers worked
with xp but not with 7. I thought I could go around this problem with
7 by way of downloading the necessary drivers from Apple via bootcamp
setup having now installed 7 and got it working properly. Bootcamp
refused to download the drivers completely. I have tried this thing
with bootcamp on at least two machines both before installing windows7
and after installation with no luck.
Now back to my 2009 machine, I tried to install each driver manually
from the drivers subdirectory of bootcamp, I got audio working, I
installed something for the apple keyboard that forced me to press fn
to get the function keys work as normal, and was on my way to install
each and every driver manually but to my VERY bad luck something
happened to windows and I could never start this thing and didn't know
what was on the screen of course since I was alone by this late hour of
the night.
What do you say about this thing folks, the bootcamp drivers are for xp
when the machine was purchased and bootcamp cannot download any drivers
whatsoever, I was on my way to put a dvd that came with a newer imac
with snow leopard and even another standalone snow leopard dvd I bought
when it came. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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