I haven’t seen any update from Apple for the new aluminum unibody Macbook Pro drivers for Boot Camp. Justin and I spent countless hours and 3+ Win XP/Boot Camp installs to finally get the drivers to work.
The drivers that boot camp provides on your OS X DVD don’t work with the new Aluminium unibody Macbook Pros, don’t install them!!!
Steps to success
- Grab these drivers from Timur: Download Drivers
- For bootcamp we did a 32Gig FAT, full (slow) formatting.
- On the fresh install don’t let windows try to find your drivers for you. If it asks just hit cancel.
- If your network connection isn’t working(very possible).
- You can boot back into the mac (hold down option when the gray screen and sound plays for 10 secs)
- Drag those unzipped boot camp drivers on to the drive that says ‘No Name’. Preferably onto your C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop or which ever user you are logging in as for Windows so you can spot it.
- Reboot, (remember hold option for 10sec when gray screen appears), login and install those new drivers.
- After your drivers have been installed you may upgrade and patch windows like mad:)