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MacBook Pro Retina + Boot Camp + Windows 7

tdkalina said:
I have been trying to download the Windows 7 Support Drivers for the last few days, with no success (for a new 15in MBP (not retina). It looks like it loads about 1/2 way, then stops, asks you to put a CD in to burn it, then it will not burn and essentially stops working. Apple support said they have not loaded the updated drivers to the server yet (I wish that message would come up instead of a stalled set-up). The guy told me to try after Monday night. I did install Windows, just waiting for the drivers now.
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I had a slight problem like that. My download stopped halfway through and wouldn't budge.
Make sure that you uncheck "Create Windows 7 install disk" and "Install Windows 7". This makes it show it downloads the drivers separately from everything else, and should give you an option of where to download it.
 
I have those boxes unchecked and it still freezes. Did you ever get it to work? I did install windows first. Should I uninstall it and try again?
 
Been playing some games in Boot Camp with the latest NVIDIA drivers, this laptop handles games very nicely.

My only gripe is the screen resolution in W7, it is at native 2880x1800 which is too small, but every other res looks like crap.
 
Hate to hijack the original post

but How about cMBP 2012 has anyone run windows 7 on them? Is the bootcamp driver out already for Ivy Bridge?
 
mattonthemoon said:
Been playing some games in Boot Camp with the latest NVIDIA drivers, this laptop handles games very nicely.

My only gripe is the screen resolution in W7, it is at native 2880x1800 which is too small, but every other res looks like crap.
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Set the DPI to 150%, text isn't too small.

Also to the other guy who said VMWare over Bootcamp - Bootcamp has direct access to the hardware, a VM goes through an additional software layer. Running a VM isn't necessarily better over BC.
 
Problem solved! After trying for days and having it hang up at the "Burn Disk" level, I called Apple for the third time. Third time is a charm! They told me to burn it to a flash drive instead of a CD. Put in the flash drive. It took a while (15-20 min), then it actually did something different than freeze! It started saving the files to the flash drive. At last! The Apple guy (more advanced guy the the first guy that answers the phone) stuck with me to the end, as I think he wanted to see if it would work for future reference. Once I logged into Windows and clicked the set-up file on the flash drive, things started getting better. It installed all driver updates but one: Windows did not recognize the USB 3 and considered it an "unknown" device. The USB port worked as a USB 2 drive, so I can still use it. He said they would likely fix the USB3 issue. If you are having the same install problem as me, just burn the support files to a flash drive and see if that does the trick!
 
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