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Yes, It is possible to download the Bootcamp drivers outside of the Bootcamp tool:
UPDATE : For Vista/Win7/Win8, the hard work is done for you at http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p682/download-bootcamp-drivers which also links the latest drivers.
For WinXP, see robmathers' answer.
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Older instructions:
Download from Apple the ...
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Ok, this is written for a 500GB HDD.
4 partitions max, just like every other (bootable) hard-drive.
I tried this on 2 MacBook Pros and it works perfectly on both.
This tutorial also assumes you have OS X Lion installed.
What I want to achieve is to have OS X Lion & Windows 7 installed, with a shared space too.
120 (OSX)
260 (SHARED)
120 (Windows)
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Since you must boot Windows 7 from the internal SSD, and since you also want to run Mac OS X from the same volume, I recommend that you concentrate on cleaning out your existing Mac OS X system and freeing up as much disk space as possible.
You should research on how to make the smallest Windows installation possible, so you can create the smallest BootCamp ...
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Sounds funny, but Control Panel only works in user mode, but the .exe file is marked to require Admin rights.
Follow this guide and it will work (trust me).
Start Notepad and paste the following (see ** comment below):
runas /trustlevel:0x20000 "C:\Windows\System32\AppleControlPanel.exe"
Save the file as "BootCampControlPanel.cmd".
Create a shortcut ...
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Boot Camp doesn't require you to reformat your drive. HFS+ partitions can be live-resized by the Boot Camp Assistant or the Disk Utility without going through the trouble of erasing everything. No file on your Mac OS partition will be affected.
There is, however, the case where you've had your computer for long and Mac OS has written files all across your ...
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It is possible.
You will first need MacFUSE and then NTFS-3G.
The User's Guide for NTFS-3G can be found here (PDF).
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The most straight forward method to actually getting this done is to get your hands on an external DVD drive that connects via USB but is not the point of your question.
Yes it is possible; you'll need to get your copy of Windows 7 DVD put onto a USB thumb drive. (There are several guides available online - I've not done it myself so I can't recommend one)
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Write a shell script that does this
#!/bin/sh
# tell OSX to change the boot disk
# nextonly just for the next time - without the default would be Windows
/usr/sbin/bless -mount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP -setBoot --nextonly
# reboot
/sbin/shutdown -r now
This can be called from a terminal window
sudo bootcamp
The use Automator to call this via an apple ...
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If you're working exclusively with Win7 machines (i.e. no Vista or XP), and 10.6.6 or greater on the Mac side, try exFAT. Native read/write support under Win7 and OS X, and none of the file size limits of FAT32. Disk Utility will happily format your drives using it.
As long as you don't need legacy support, it's probably your best option, as it avoids any ...
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The first problem might be that the adapter is not hot-pluggable, so be sure to connect it and reboot.
If you still have difficulties, I've found driver information while looking at the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter page at Apple Store.
Google "broadcom driver windows netxtreme". Select the netxtreme I
Desktop/Mobile driver. Install via ...
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I'm having the exact same problem. I tried holding the option key when rebooting to see if I could boot from the USB key but I could not find a way to do this, so I installed rEFIt (then rebooted twice!) and THEN plugged in the USB key and the next time I rebooted it did show up as an option to boot from the USB key.
I tried that and the windows installer ...
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Bootcamp is designed to allow you to change your operating system while the computer boots.
Nothing allows you to swap purely back and forth between operating systems that way. What you can do is use software that runs Windows in OS X with hardware virtualization, a huge step up from the software virtual machines of old.
There are three good options: ...
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Hold the option key when you power on and you can choose the working mac partition or insert a bootable DVD to get back to disk utility or a working os. This is called the Startup Manager screen.
The eject key will work once the Startup Manager is running so you can eject the windows DVD.
As I didn't explain the option key - here is a great article ...
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Windows Vs Mac wars aside, it makes a lot of sense to use a Mac as a Windows machine. PC World or PC Magazine (I always get them confused) named the MacBook Pro the best Windows machine not so long ago. Their reasoning was that Apple includes the right drivers for the different hardware components that they ship on the Mac. I don't think that means the ...
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Here is my recipe for a
Successful setup of OS X Lion + Bootcamp Windows 7 Ult + Data Partition
Ok, so after many, many hours I think I've finally figured out how to successfully install Mac OS X Lion with Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition AND an 3rd data partition. Here is a screenshot of my setup on my 13" MacBook Pro as it looks at the end of the ...
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No, Windows does not support FileVault (so it would not boot if it was encrypted thus!) The Windows option would be BitLocker.
(perhaps it is more correct to say FileVault does not support anything but Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions)
If you need a great, free, cross-platform, open-source, strong encryption tool check out TrueCrypt.
Can you use ...
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There are a great many games that support 2880x1800 and most of them support 2560x1600 (Cinema, Dell, and HP 30" resolutions)
Windows 7 & 8 don't support the quad-pixel and dual-pixel modes of OSX, they do things a bit differently. You always have the 2880x1800 resolution, and simply select larger font size (150% in my case).
Most games will work out ...
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I’ve not tried MBR1… but: you can indeed boot Windows 7 and Windows 8 (64-bit versions) in EFI mode off of a Thunderbolt-connected disk. I have a handful of the Buffalo Ministation Thunderbolt2 drives with the original, slow 5400 rpm hard drives replaced with various SSDs, and they work wonderfully3. You can boot off of them by pressing Option during the ...
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According to the store pages, it looks like all the retina models have 8GB memory, with option for more, and as such you should choose the 64-bit version to make sure you can take advantage of all that memory in Windows.
A 32-bit Windows installation would only be able to use 2GB/3GB of the available memory.
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Good news is that CNET Downloads still have the file on their own server so, we can easily get it form there
Winclone 2.2 on CNET Downloads
and after that the beauty come to us!
Unfortunately, WinClone will not work under OSX Lion...
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Another way to get from OS X to Windows quickly is to use Bootchamp, which adds a menu bar item like this:
For my Windows-booting needs Bootchamp has worked well.
(I learned about it from a similar question on Super User I once asked.)
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The bootcamp partition is not affected. The only thing Apple did different in Lion is that the bootcamp drivers packaged with Lion installations only work with Windows 7, however, if you already have the Snow Leopard drivers installed on you XP side nothing will change...if you need to install a new bootcamp partition you will need to get the bootcamp ...
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You should back up your Windows partition while booted into Windows, using Windows-compatible backup software, and you must backup to an external drive that is NTFS-formatted, whether it is over Ethernet, USB, FireWire or whatever else you can work out. Do not try to use a physical hard drive that has one partition formatted for Mac or Time Machine, and ...
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Try this: Apple DL1443: Boot Camp Software Update 3.3 for Windows. It's called an update, but I suspect it doesn't require any pre-existing installed drivers.
That said, it's probably worth your while to keep a minimal OS X install, even if it's just on a spare external drive (you could probably get away with a 16 GB USB drive even). It gives you a good ...
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You don't need to boot into OSX to change the default boot system ...
Hold down the Option key when booting, and when you see the system choices
Move the mouse over the ↑ under the system you want to be the default, then
Hold down the Ctrl key and you should see the ↑ icon change to a "power on" icon
Left click on that "power icon" and that system will ...
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Bootcamp allows you to install and run Windows 7 natively on your Mac as if it were just any other PC.
It allows you to co host a Windows installation on the same drive as your Mac OS one, allowing you to dual boot. In addition to being what is effectively a simple boot manager, it includes a full package of drivers for all your integrated peripherals like ...
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Go to Device Manager and uninstall (and delete drivers) for the two
Trackpad devices then rescan for hardware. After which, then go find
your Boot Camp drivers, and don't run the full setup, but instead
find the folder that specifically has the driver install packages in
them and install the ones that are along the lines of "Apple
Multitouch ...
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If you run Parallels off a disk image, you can expand that partition to as much disk space as you have available. All it requires is shutting down the VM. As far as I know you can't shrink a disk image.
If you're running Parallels off a Boot Camp partition, it's possible in some cases to expand that partition later on, using third party tools. This ...
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I was able to get my Macbook Pro to run the same licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on both Bootcamp and Parallels 5 by activating it on both. I was having trouble running and activating it on my Parallels VM which ran the Bootcamp install. So what I did was change the MAC address of eth0 to match the one from Bootcamp.
Once I changed that, I called ...
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From a theoretical standpoint, even if you delete the Boot Camp drivers and/or remove the drive letter, a virus could still interface with the disk at very low level and read your data. From a practical standpoint, this is unlikely to happen as there is much more low-hanging fruit for hackers.
Still, if you want to run Windows on your Mac without the ...
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