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Windows 7 x64 on a Macbook Pro (macintosh)

by Andre on Nov.04, 2009, under Miscellaneous

If you try to boot off the windows 7 dvd you will get a Select CD-ROM Boot Type screen that you can’t do anything with. Apparently the standard of the DVD image won’t work with the macbook pro.

If you have a unibody this problem should not present itsself.
We have to make a new DVD.
Since you have a mac mount the .iso and copy the files to a usb drive (fat32 formatted)
If you have the DVD made already skip that step and head over to a windows machine.

The following steps are on so may blogs with no source I can’t give credit to anyone. (DO THIS FROM A WINDOWS MACHINE, a VM will do)
1- create 3 folders c:windows7iso c:windows7exe c:windows7dvd
2- download this .exe file and put into c:windows7exe
3- copy the files from the DVD or from your flash drive into c:windows7iso
4- open a dos prompt in c:windows7exe and type exactly as shown below:

EDIT: Fixed code below. Somehow \’s didn’t make it through copy/paste. Thanks to the commenter below.
oscdimg -n -m -bc:\windows7iso\boot\etfsboot.com c:\windows7iso c:\windows7dvd\windows7dvd.iso

Burn the new windows7dvd.iso file to a DVD

Go ahead and boot from the DVD in your mac (Pop it in and hold the “C” key or just hold the “Option” key and select the windows cd.

Partitioning:
(NOTE: i used the resize command in the macos x terminal to shrink my partition)

Since I had freespace after my mac partition I created and formatted a new partition during windows installer.
Win 7 will not install on a GUID partition. You will either need to convert (i’ll update the guide in a few days to reflect how to do that) or you can just do the safe way. Backup your mac drive with carbon copy cloner and repartition in windows. Then reformat the mac partition once you boot back to OS X and push your CCC copy back.

Win7 installed every driver by default, but just to be sure and to get all the extra bootcamp features (HFS+ Read) I popped in my Snow Leopard DVD and opened it up.
Go to D:\Boot Camp   (where D: is your optical drive)
Find the setup file.
Right click it and hit properties.
Go to compatibility
Check the box to make it compatible with windows vista
Also check the box to run as administrator (if it lets you)

Hit OK and run that file. Sit back, everything installs fine.
Reboot

To install Daemon Tools.
You will need to install SPTD seperatly from Daemon. Go a head and download that from here SPTDinst-v162-x64
Reboot
Now download Daemon Tools and run the installer.
I had a few initial bugs so you may want to reboot again.
Finished!

I use Avast for my antivirus.


2 Comments for this entry

  • tester

    oscdimg -n -m -bc:\windows7iso\boot\etfsboot.com c:\windows7iso c:windows7dvd\windows7dvd.iso

    minor change to make it work

  • Ora

    I just buy a new mac book pro and I successfully install win 7 ultimate. But I have a problem in disc partitioning. It seems that win7 only allows me to shrink the basic disc to half of its original size. I have turned down the system protection and restart my book, but it still not works. Do you have any suggestions?

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