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Late 2008 unibody MacBook Pro - Boot Camp drivers?

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Jul 25, 2008
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I have an Late 2008 Macbook pro unibody, 4gb, 320gb 7200rpm.

I installed the bootcamp drivers off the leopard CD that came with the mac and all was good! I have since taken it to Australia for a holiday and need to reinstall boot camp but left the Leopard CD back in the UK.

Stupidly, the 2.1 bootcamp drivers on Apples site don't support the Unibody mac! Can anyone please direct me to where I can download the Drivers (for 32bit XP home SP2) for the Unibody Macbook pro? The exact ones that are on the Leopard CD that came with the new macbook pro?
 
I was somewhat in the same boat since my first install of Vista refused to read the Unibody Mac OS X disc. I searched everywhere and never found them. Luckily a reinstall of Windows somehow fixed the disc read problem and I didn't need to find a download.

Maybe when I get home I'll put the Unibody Bootcamp stuff up somewhere so if I or anyone else runs into issues similar to yours or mine we'll have them available.
 
Good luck.

I downloaded 2.1 drivers of the Apple site and they refused to run for me. Had to get the leopard CD to install vista.

There is really no excuse why the drivers of the apple website would refuse to execute.

Very disappointed with the bootcamp drivers. I wish they were more mature.

This was for the MBP btw. And even when i got it working, the things runs kinda hot.

Hope u get it sorted. Also report back how the heat is once sorted.
 
Not answering is helping as friends don't help friends install Windows on a Mac
 
SoybeanStasher said:
Maybe when I get home I'll put the Unibody Bootcamp stuff up somewhere so if I or anyone else runs into issues similar to yours or mine we'll have them available.
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SOybean, if you could upload them to something like megaupload.com you would save my life! Been looking for the drivers for hours to no avail... downloaded macbook Air BC drivers but they didn't work...
 
shoot me a message on aim or pm me with your email addy, i'll rip em for you, if they're not too big.
 
That's great rush, I can't seem to PM you for some reason, i've added you to AIM, i'm bigaloz80, i'll msg you next time you're on.

thanks!!
 
I can't seem to get in touch with rush, would anyone else be willing to find it in the kindness of their hearts to upload the unibody MBP drivers off the leopard cd? ;)
 
Bootcamp Drivers (7-ZIP compression):
Boot Camp.7z - 425.12MB

Bootcamp Drivers WITHOUT ATI DRIVERS (7-ZIP compression):
Boot Camp - NO ATI.7z - 320.84MB


Free 7-ZIP Compressor (Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS X) Homepage: http://www.7-zip.org


Mac OS X GUI Frontends to 7-ZIP (7-ZIP included!):

7zX 1.7.1 (best feature-set and compression, Finder integration via supplied Automator, offers best compression without need for command-line parameters, allows creation of SFX for Mac and inclusion/disregarding of Resource Forks/Metadata, multipart files, multi-threaded, optional command-line parameters, 64-bit 7za):
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20526/7zx

EZ 7z 0.65 (offers selection of destination directory for compression/decompression, less features than 7zX, 64-bit 7za):
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19139/ez-7z

GUI Tar 1.1.1 (not recommended: PPC compression only! problems with Unicode names in Documentation Folder of Bootcamp drivers! gives too little information of what it does):
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14503/gui-tar
 
They worked Timur! Thanks very much for uploading them! Greatly appreciated.
 
I have problems too. Apple needs to release an update to fix this. There is no excuse for these problems.
 
Would someone who managed to download the drivers for a MBP reupload them? I've left my disks at home and I can't seem to download from zshare.
 
pray tell...how do you install the drivers once you unzip it?
I had a bit of a problem since swapping my harddisk from a Santa Rosa MBPro to a Unibody MBPro. Bootcamp was working fine in the old one, but keyboard and trackpad goes dead in the new one although windowsXP boots up fine. In addition, bootcamp partition is NTFS, so I can't write to the harddisk from OSX.

Thks for any help.
 
Timur for president!

You are the greatest!!

I've been looking for these and posted about it earlier with no luck, but you sir are a saviour.
 
daddyoh said:
pray tell...how do you install the drivers once you unzip it?
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Either just run SETUP.EXE (needed for the Apple trayicon app that allows to configure the trackpad and use the special function keys) or install the included drivers one by one.
 
oops...did not see the SETUP.EXE until I unzipped the file. Thanks again to you TIMUR.

Happy to say that bootcamp on my Unibody MBPRO works now!! Here's the story if you are interested...
I wanted to swap the new HD on my new Unibody MBPro with a 500GB bootcamp-ready, NTFS formatted HD from a 2007 MBPro. After the physical swap and booting up in windows, I had no trackpad or keyboard control, hence I could not launch SETUP.EXE of the zipped drivers.

Therefore, I reinstalled the original HD and installed bootcamp on it.
Then I copied via USB the multitouch trackpad and mouse drivers (applemtp.sys and applemtm.sys) to C:\windows\system32\drivers on the 500GB HD.

I put in the 500GB HD into the Unibody MBPro again and booted up in WindowsXP. With the two driver files I had trackpad control and could launch SETUP.EXE to install the rest of the drivers.
 
Also have a look at this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/629209/

Microsoft released dozends of new drivers for Windows 7 including new Broadcom (WLAN) and Nvidia (graphic) drivers that are useable on the Macbooks. Especially the Broadcom driver is very useful (better bandwidth, better performance).
 
I would just like to tell you thank you very much, you saved my life. I am in Iraq and it saved me from lots of hassle. Thanks
 
Seems as if the middle east in general is out of driver CDs... :p ;)

My pleasure to be of help to you folks! :)
 
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