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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is because of how Retina is implemented on these new systems. In the Mac OS (and iOS for that matter), resources are doubled in size, therefore each point is roughly the 4 pixels.
To the system though, it still reports the 1440x900 size, even though the actual pixel count is 2880x1800. The Mac OS knows how to handle this looking for @2X resources or ...
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Got my Apple Macbook Multitouch Trackpad drivers to install on 64 bit Windows 8 RTM.
Upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8, keeping applications and files. As as result, Boot Camp 3.2 was already installed, but trackpad was not working.
Installing drivers manually using device manager from the Boot Camp 4 installation files failed. Windows compatibility mode ...
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BootCamp is usually between 3 and 4 times faster than either VMWare or Parallels. Bootcamp is the actual OS running on real hardware, where the other choices are running inside the constraints of the host OS and must share resources (memory, cpu, etc...) with the host OS. BootCamp has full control of all of the system's resources.
It should be able to ...
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Unfortunately, this is not possible. You can't run two operating systems at the same time without any extra software.
With that said, Parallels Desktop does exactly what you want to achieve, it runs the OS in a virtual mode, the only downside being it's shareware, therefore pricy. Using a third party software is however the only way to achieve what you're ...
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Just because something isn't documented doesn't mean it is impossible, the following is true for Mac Mini's from 2010, 2011 and 2012.
You can install Windows alone on all three by configuring a hard drive to be MBR, setting the active partition to be the one containing the Windows folders. A Boot Manager, the 100mb partition you see on windows 7 computers, ...
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Have you tried booting from OSX installation media? Those have both a Terminal (with diskutil) and the GUI Disk Utility, which might start working as you're no longer trying to partition the drive you're booting from.
Caution, from now on: here be dragons! Make sure you understand what's going on before you start on this, you can't back out halfway! Check ...
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I also wanted to run ubuntu native on my iMac and could not figure it out for the longest time. I refused to use virtualization software. Took a look at ubuntu's website and the instructions it provides work the best for me.
First make bootable Ubuntu USB Stick
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
Restart your computer.
Hold ...
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VirtualBox is free so the downside to trying it is just your time. I did, and stayed with it. I primarily run XP but I did play with a couple of Linux flavors on it as well.
Its seamless mode works well, showing only the application's windows on your OS X desktop among whatever other OS X stuff is there. I point my few remaining Windows apps to shared ...
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First you should be able to boot into OS X if you press and hold the ⌥ key just after pressing the power button.
For the Bootcamp control panel to appear, you should install the Bootcamp drivers from Apple. Run Boot Camp Assistant to get them or try these tips.
Also: More on Boot Camp.
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I got it (at least the parts in my question) working:
Reboot
Reboot again
Run boot camp and remove old installation (this time it worked)
Reboot
Run boot camp and start Windows installation
At the choose partition screen, choose the boot camp partition, select Drive options, and then select Format.
I wonder why it worked this time, but not the first.
Now ...
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Since you didn't mention you had a backup of the system or if you are equipped to troubleshoot a driver issue, you should probably not update things unless you have a problem.
Apple vets the drivers it provides to be sure they work well with Mac hardware - so although you are free to update drivers, you are skipping that vetting process. Unless the driver ...
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Here's some advice offered to others in situations I believe are markedly similar to yours:
"Saving my Data. Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic NTFS" [Contains a link to an open source software repair utility] http://www.allroundgeek.com/2011/05/saving-my-data-convert-dynamic-disk-to.html
"Convert Dynamic disk back to basic" [Contains links to commercial ...
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I managed to get everything works like the way I want:
Lion, Windows 7, and two shared partition (don't ask why I need two,
I do need two)
Lion recovery partition is intact
Factory-installed Lion is intact
The key of my success is moving my Boot Camp partition to the first position, as shown in this image:
When I say moving, there's no such a tool ...
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Your original solution using /etc/fstab will work, but you must use the volume's UUID (which DOES exist, Disk Utility just doesn't display it for NTFS formatted partitions- thanks Apple...)
To learn the UUID use the following command in terminal:
diskutil info /dev/diskXsY ##substituting the X & Y for the disk and partition designation of the volume ...
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Winclone might be a good solution.
Winclone allows you to image a Bootcamp partition and migrate it to a new Mac, or in this case a freshly installed OS on a new HD. Here's their tutorial: http://twocanoes.com/asset.php?id=9
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Everyone seemed to think that re-burning the disk would fix the issue. It did for a lot of people. But I had a purchased copy that I didn't burn.
The fix for me was to let Windows boot up. You'll see the black screen with a progress bar where the windows installer starts up. Start tapping F8. You might have to hold Alt/Option while tapping. I tried both ...
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As you've pointed out, there is plenty of virtualisation software. However, the most famous are Parallels and VMware Fusion (the other ones I haven't used, so I can't give you an opinion about them).
In my opinion, Parallels is the more robust one and gives me the best performance. There are a lot of online battles going one between both camps and there ...
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It shouldn't affect your BootCamp partition, I upgraded to Lion and ML on two macs without any issues.
If you want a completely clean install and you're booting from a USB drive with the ML installer, then run the disk utility to wipe the OSX partition, and choose that as the destination for installation afterwards, it still won't touch your Windows ...
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Okay so I figured this out a while ago, but I'll post it here too. The problem was I was using MacDrive, which allows me to read and write to Mac partitions while in Windows (using Boot Camp).
MacDrive sometimes modified files on the Mac partitions even if I didn't open them; I think it sometimes perform optimization actions to speed up the reading of Mac ...
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I have just upgraded Win7 to Win8 RTM on my Macbook Air 2011 (core i7, Bootcamp 4.0). I tried to install Trackpad++ but it failed, the latest drivers from Apple failed to install. But the solution here http://maxcho.com/2012/08/windows-8-on-a-macbook-pro/ worked perfectly.
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BootChamp requires you to input the administrator password at its first use, but after that it allows you to restart without asking you for the password again. Unless you child is tech-savvy enough to get into Keychain, I think BootChamp may be exactly what you're looking for. It's also very easy on system resources.
After installation, you could reboot ...
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