mac boot camp drivers CD

Blasingame · Post by **Blasingame** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:40 am

So i got my mac book pro and its working great, and I successfully installed windows XP however my delima is I installed it but forgot to make the drivers CD. Anyone know how i can get one? i've checked all over google and i can't find one.

problem is i can't switch back to MacOS lol

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:50 am

Why is it you cant switch back to mac os? If you hosed your installation, don't it come with a cd to reinstall everything?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:52 am

What drivers cd? You don't need XP to make it for you....

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:57 am

Deathlike2 wrote:What drivers cd? You don't need XP to make it for you....

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:12 am

Ah.

The Boot Camp burns a CD with the drivers Windows needs to recognize Mac-specific hardware. It is very important to do this before starting the Windows installation.

Obviously someone didn't pay attention to the stuff in bold.

Blasingame · Post by **Blasingame** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:23 am

ya soo what to do now...

seriously, I hav a friend at school with a mac book pro i'll just make the CD on his computer then install it on windows. Hopefully this solution will work.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:23 am

Blasingame wrote:ya soo what to do now...

seriously, I hav a friend at school with a mac book pro i'll just make the CD on his computer then install it on windows. Hopefully this solution will work.

It should work if they are identical or at least similar enough (talking out my ass here, have no apple experience since system 7.5), but why the insanity of running windows on the macbook anyway?

Blasingame · Post by **Blasingame** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:21 pm

SquareHead wrote:
Blasingame wrote:ya soo what to do now...

seriously, I hav a friend at school with a mac book pro i'll just make the CD on his computer then install it on windows. Hopefully this solution will work.
It should work if they are identical or at least similar enough (talking out my ass here, have no apple experience since system 7.5), but why the insanity of running windows on the macbook anyway?

i know this will sound lame, but i wanted to play some of my PC games on it

LobStar · Post by **LobStar** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:16 pm

you can... ya know, hold ALT and reboot and pick OS X as the "startup disk", then rerun bootcamp to make a drivers cd...

Blasingame · Post by **Blasingame** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:35 am

*keels over and dies*

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:31 am

Blasingame wrote:
SquareHead wrote:
Blasingame wrote:ya soo what to do now...

seriously, I hav a friend at school with a mac book pro i'll just make the CD on his computer then install it on windows. Hopefully this solution will work.
It should work if they are identical or at least similar enough (talking out my ass here, have no apple experience since system 7.5), but why the insanity of running windows on the macbook anyway?
i know this will sound lame, but i wanted to play some of my PC games on it

Totally lame that you want to use your powerful new computer to play games.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:35 am

casualsax3 wrote:
Blasingame wrote:
SquareHead wrote:
Blasingame wrote:ya soo what to do now...

seriously, I hav a friend at school with a mac book pro i'll just make the CD on his computer then install it on windows. Hopefully this solution will work.
It should work if they are identical or at least similar enough (talking out my ass here, have no apple experience since system 7.5), but why the insanity of running windows on the macbook anyway?
i know this will sound lame, but i wanted to play some of my PC games on it
Totally lame that you want to use your powerful new Mac to play PC games.

Fixed.