Hi everybody. Perhaps somebody has gone through this and can shed some light on what might be going on... I've searched apple forums etc but haven't found a solution yet...
My girlfriend needs windows on her mac book air for work so I installed win seven Ultimate 32 bit after creating the required partition in the bootcamp utility in mountain lion. When I instruct the bootcamp utility to download the windows support software, I get the dialogue box saying that the download is in progress. That's where it ends though because it just seems stuck. I even let it sit overnight and the same dialogue box was still there the next morning. There is no status bar etc that is visible to voiceover, none that I can find at least. So, I went on the apple site and downloaded the two latest 32 bit versions of the package but neither will install. I get an error message when I run setup.exe that says that it's not compatible with this machine. We're not running win seven 64 bit either so that is not the issue. I grabbed the bootcamp folder off of my old snow lepeard dvd and while that seems to install correctly, (I get the last dialogue box with the finish button then the message saying that I need to restart the computer), none of the drivers load after rebooting and bootcamp is not in the notifications area. When I go into device manager, it doesn't look like any of the apple and other specific drivers have loaded because I only see generic drivers under things like keyboard, network adapters etc. This is my first time installing windows via bootcamp on an air and my first time doing it on a mac with mountain lion. I've done this on five different macs over the past few years with no trouble but now I am at a loss as to what's going on here... Thoughts? Thanks for any tips you guys might have! Cameron. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
