hmmm.... I thought bootcamp only supported windows 64bit. When I installed win7 Home Premium on my iMac, I first downloaded the bootcamp drivers before doing the install so I'd have them ready at hand. Then I installed windows7 64bit and the ddrivers at the end of the process and it worked fine. I don't know why, I thought that you could only install 64 bit versions of windows, but I'm sure that must be wrong.
On 8/2/13, Cameron Strife <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
