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Who is doing Win 8 Pro in Bootcamp? (2012MBP)
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I've ran Windows 7 and am running Windows 8 on my rMBP under Boot camp.
No issues really. Used the drivers provided and just made sure I had the latest ones (like I would do anyway even if it was Windows 7). Updated the graphics driver (downloaded manually from the NVidia website) and just had to do a quick workaround to get the boot camp control panel working. Other than that, it's running perfectly fine and didn't have any issues. The trackpad works fine, keyboard as well. I use it mainly to play FIFA 13 and it runs perfectly (apart from the EFI issues that have nothing to do with Windows).
No issues really. Used the drivers provided and just made sure I had the latest ones (like I would do anyway even if it was Windows 7). Updated the graphics driver (downloaded manually from the NVidia website) and just had to do a quick workaround to get the boot camp control panel working. Other than that, it's running perfectly fine and didn't have any issues. The trackpad works fine, keyboard as well. I use it mainly to play FIFA 13 and it runs perfectly (apart from the EFI issues that have nothing to do with Windows).
Hate Windows 8, sticking with Windows 7 in boot camp, however I am just about done with Windows for good, except for work, where I have no choice.
I'm running Windows 8 on my new rMBP, works flawlessly and beautifully. I haven't had any troubles with it yet. The drivers are technically the same as the windows 7 drivers you would get from Bootcamp.
Creating a second user account, give it Admin rights. Remove admin rights from primary account. Run boot camp control panel, configure the way you like (you only need to do it once anyway). Give admin rights to primary account again. Delete second account.
Nothing that will take you more than 5 minutes.
Near as I can tell there are only two issues.
Boot camp assistant has trouble changing the boot partition, complains about privileges even though I have it set for compatibility mode and administrator. I think I can get around this by using option on boot or something.
Apple track pad drivers don't work.
Boot camp assistant has trouble changing the boot partition, complains about privileges even though I have it set for compatibility mode and administrator. I think I can get around this by using option on boot or something.
Apple track pad drivers don't work.
Some dude posted windows 8 specific drivers in this forum. Trackpad++ or something of the sorts.
Actually I seem to be close enough.
On the boot selection and not being able to enter boot camp assistant; only thing I really needed was to be able to switch to OSX. Temp fix is to just use option on reboot and select OSX.
For the track pad drivers the ones bootcamp didn't work the first time, so just go in and select USB input device and you will have basic track pad working. Then go in and have it search again and one shows up as apple multitouch and the other comes in as apple multitouch mouse. Then they worked and I could scroll and two finger right click. Good enough for me.
On the boot selection and not being able to enter boot camp assistant; only thing I really needed was to be able to switch to OSX. Temp fix is to just use option on reboot and select OSX.
For the track pad drivers the ones bootcamp didn't work the first time, so just go in and select USB input device and you will have basic track pad working. Then go in and have it search again and one shows up as apple multitouch and the other comes in as apple multitouch mouse. Then they worked and I could scroll and two finger right click. Good enough for me.
I'm trying to install Win 8 Pro using Boot Camp Assistant on a 13" rMPB, and all that's happening is that when it installs, it boots right into a screen where the only thing that shows up is a blue bar along the left 1/4 of the screen. The rest of the screen is black, and nothing else happens. I can scroll the mouse pointer within the blue bar, but it doesn't do anything.
Weird, I didn't have issues with the trackpad. All worked fine after installing the drivers. Maybe it was because you updated from 7 to 8. I clean installed.
Could be, I think it used the same driver. That or microsoft is caching them on their side as a WHQL thing.
Were you able to solve the problem? I tried to install Windows 8 Pro today and ended up with the same blue bar/black screen you got.