Comments on: Vista 64-bit on the Macbook 2008 – Solution!

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:02:10 +0000

Just wanted to say you are a life saver!!!!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:35:32 +0000

You are the man. I thought there could be a way. Now I know. I installed 64bit
windows home premium on a unibody 2.4ghz 2gb ram. Works perfect
with this. Thx again!! Good stuff.

By: Nicole Hamilton

Nicole Hamilton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:18:35 +0000

I can verify that Apple’s 64-bit drivers also work with Windows 7. I didn’t try a fresh install since I already had Vista and a lot of apps installed. But I had no problem upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 last week. Everything works just fine. I did not need to reinstall the Apple drivers; it found them already installed under Vista. And the good news is Windows 7 is noticeably faster.

By: Dusan

Dusan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:34:12 +0000

After scouring the internet for solutions I finally found yours and it worked! Thanks!!

By: Duarte

Duarte — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:25:32 +0000

Thank you so much i was stuck there for a moment
Well done

By: Naveen

Naveen — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:31:26 +0000

hi,I followed ur method and right now almost everything is working fine but I’ve found in C drive where I’ve installed windows 7, there are two
folders named as program files one is just “program files” and the other is “program files x86″ (32 bit I think)and I checked the files inside them they both have some files in common but of various sizes.
Please guys reply me.
Thanks in advance.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:19:17 +0000

i confirm this works! thanks so much

win 7 RTM 64bit is now properly installed on my aluminium macbook

thanks again, shame on apple for this i feel let down by them big time.

By: Ian Wright

Ian Wright — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:56:11 +0000

Thanks this was amazing.
I have just installed Vista Ultimate 64 onto my White New MacBook Core 2 duo with OSX 10.6.1.

When you partition the drive, you need to then format that section of the boot camp drive that you select when installing vista as it needs to be NTFS.

Vista will install with no hitch at all, its when vista starts you will find there are a few drivers not working, such as the airport card, and network card.

So it has gone almost perfect, i copied the
bootcamp/drivers/
directory from the OSX install DVD on to my vista desktop and then just double clicked the 64bit drivers and ran them by hand by double clicking them. Open the device manager and right click on the hardware not working (has a little question mark over it) and select reinstall driver and find your way to your copy of drivers from your OSX disk. I got the airport card working eventually and all other bits. I don’t have the diamond control icon next to the date, i also don’t have any reference to boot camp in the windows files or menu at all, but I’m not too worried about that as i can change the start up by holding “alt”.

It looks like apart from i cant double click with the track-pad, and some of the keys on my keyboard are as a Microsoft keyboard, everything else is working fine exactly as a normal Vista would do

Thanks again
Ian

By: Squirrel

Squirrel — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:28:46 +0000

Ohh…. doing a run as admin on cmd.exe! Doh!

Much easier than the regedit crud I went through to add runas admin for .msi files in the right-click contextual menu of explorer.

By: Isaac Earl

Isaac Earl — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:46:35 +0000

Thanks for this info… I’ve been trying to find a solution to this all day. This seemed to work for me! I’m using windows 7 x64 bit.