Comments on: Exploring Windows 7 on the Mac: installation via Boot Camp

By: DaGreekGeek

DaGreekGeek — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:37:59 +0000

FYI (to the commenter and Prince McLean) Windows 7 64-bit (including the beta) has FULL SUPPORT for EFI. It would be a good idea to update your Blog to reflect this as I believe many people are using this as well as a few other blogs that DO note Vista 64-bit SP1 and later EFI support. In a nutshell if you have Windows 7 64-bit (or even a Vista SP1 or later 64-bit) install disk you don't need to do anything special to install Windows under a system that has EFI . [Well considering that you still need BootCamp to repartition the drive on your Mac, and to supply Windows drivers, I fail to see how this is an important detail to note. An EFI formatted Mac disk doesn't do "anything special" in order to boot the mainstream version of Windows which only supports MBR/BIOS. And outside the Mac world, tt doesn't really matter that Windows Vista/7 64-bit supports EFI, because there's no compelling reason for PC makers to deliver EFI-based PCs. - Dan]

By: Exploring Windows 7 for Mac users — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Exploring Windows 7 for Mac users — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:47:12 +0000

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By: Jimbode

Jimbode — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:52:22 +0000

I had issues installing the Boot Camp 64 bit drivers for Windows 7 64 bit on my Macbook. As it’s not a Pro, Apple doesn’t think I should be installing 64 bit Windows.

To save anyone else hunting around on how to do this, here is what you have to do:

In the Start Menu Type “cmd”, then right-click on the program that appears and choose “Run As Administrator”.

Then enter;

D:
cd “Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple”
msiexec /i BootCamp64.msi