| Dec152011 | How to run Boot Camp installer when it refuses to run |
I’ve hit this problem like 5 times now and each time I forget how I solve it. So I’m going to write it down now to solve it once and for all.
I assume you’ve already setup your Boot Camp partition inside OS X 10.7 Lion, you’ve downloaded the Boot Camp drivers on to a USB stick and you’ve installed a 64-bit version of Windows 7 (or above).
Problem #1: Running setup.exe gives you an error: “Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model”
Problem #2: Running Drivers\Apple\BootCamp64.msi gives you an error about requiring at least Windows 7 or that “This installation requires elevated privileges. Launch the installer through setup.exe.”
I figured out a quick way to workaround this.
- Open an elevated command prompt
- In the command prompt, go to the WindowsSupport\Drivers\Apple\ directory.
- Run “start .” to launch a Windows Explorer window at this location
- Run the “Troubleshoot Compatibility” wizard on BootCamp64.msi
- Allow it to disable the version check and save the settings
- Run BootCamp64.msi from the commpand prompt
Voila! It should install.
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