Paul:
I did this on a macbook white from the year 2009. Basically when this
dvd reaches the desktop you have two possibilities either it talks
which is what you want or it doesn't talk. In both cases you MUST use
usb headset. I connected a loud speaker to the USB adapter I have and
turned the volume high to the maximum. I noticed a little hum when usb
audio was initializing whether NVDA spoke or not and it became silent
when the desktop reached. I exited NVDA with capslock and q I heard
nothing but when I pressed enter I heard the chimes from NVDA. Now
since I don't know where is the focus I pressed command+m to be sure I
am on the desktop then pressed n by itself to focus the NVDA icon then
RETURN and voila NVDA started. When I did the install I did not use
the install windows icon he provided on the desktop since there is a
bug there, I browsed from his dvd to the setup.exe for Windows in the
installers folder and the folder inside it I don't remember its exact
name but you will find it setup.exe or use your own real windows dvd if
you have one, just remember once you want to eject a dvd while win7pe
is loaded on the mac you cannot use the eject key on your keyboard, you
MUST open the computer folder from the first icon on the desktop then
highlight the dvd and eject it from the menus, you activate the menus
with the option key.
As for why I used the recovery partition is because I wanted to make
sure which startup disk I wanted to use next time. So for example
after the first phase of installing Windows with speech when Windows
wanted to restart as soon as I powered the mac and heard the music I
ejected his dvd, powered off the mac, powered it on again and kept
option depressed and counted to say five or ten in my heart then
pressed left arrow then RETURN and waited until recovery came then
started VO and selected that I wanted to start from Windows. Maybe
this was not necessary and it was enough to eject his dvd but I have a
tendency every now and then to use this recovery partition as a talking
startup disk since I am totally blind and have no sighted people around.
Finally I started windows it finished setting itself up of course
without speech then restarted by itself, it is up to you, no need to
halt it to select it from the recovery partition it will start in
Windows then you press command+u to get narrator talking from usb and
you tab/shift tab to ok to make windows setup. Once setup is done you
install your bootcamp drivers and after that you never need usb
speakers and you can use the eject key to eject dvds. In one word you
do the first phase of setup with dvd in the machine and you get speech
when windows wants to restart eject your dvd and let it restart and
wait until it restarts again then use narrator to set it up.
Original message:
Hi Georges,
This looks like a very to the point answer. Thank you so much for
pointing this out. There are 2 little things that I don't understand
yet. Would you please clarify the following:
1. How can I exit NVDA? I don't yet know where windows maps its insert
key in bootcamp. On a US keyboard, where is insert? I would then do a
insert plus f4. That should bring up the NVDA exit dialog. Is this
correct so far? And which key is insert, or is there another way?
2. You said: I used the mac recovery startup disk each time I wanted to
boot from this Megadvd. What does this mean? To boot into windows, do
you start your mac, then hold down command plus r, so that it boots
into the mac recovery partition? But then how do you continue?
I hope I'll hear back from you, because this seems exactly the bit of
missing information that I'm still looking for. Thanks for your answer
thus far. Please do reply.
Paul.
On Oct 8, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Georges Zaynoun <[email protected]> wrote:
Folks, I used the Win7PE successfully twice to install on bootcamp and
I did it alone just today and I am totally blind. What you need to do
is you MUST use usb speakers or headphones and if NVDA doesn't speak to
you just exit it without speech and answer yes to the question you
don't hear, the confirmation you will get is the NVDA exit sound. Once
that is done you can simply hit the letter n making sure you are on the
desktop then enter and NVDA will start speaking from your usb device
and you will be able to install Windows.
I used the mac recovery startup disk each time I wanted to boot from
this Megadvd.
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