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    Bootcamp Drivers

    Hi,

    Does anyone have any Bootcamp drivers for Windows 7 please? We have some iMacs without OSX and with just Windows. I cant find hte OSX disc for them.

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    Last edited by FN-GM; 12th December 2012 at 12:11 PM.

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    I believe you can download them from Apples website. A quick Google search threw up this - Download BootCamp Drivers for Macs to run Windows 7 or 8 | Chris F Carroll

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    when I ran bootcamp it automatically downloaded the drivers for the specific hardware and burned a disk for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JonThompson View Post
    I believe you can download them from Apples website. A quick Google search threw up this - Download BootCamp Drivers for Macs to run Windows 7 or 8 | Chris F Carroll
    They are upgrade packages only

    Quote Originally Posted by CyberNerd View Post
    when I ran bootcamp it automatically downloaded the drivers for the specific hardware and burned a disk for it.
    We are not running OS X (see original post )

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    Quote Originally Posted by FN-GM View Post
    We are not running OS X (see original post )
    It doesn't take long to re-image it for OSX

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    Quote Originally Posted by CyberNerd View Post
    It doesn't take long to re-image it for OSX
    It does if you dont have a disc, again in the original post

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    Quote Originally Posted by FN-GM View Post
    It does if you dont have a disc, again in the original post
    Hold ALT and it re-images it from the interweb. You don't need the disk.

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    really? These are 6 year old macs. does it support proxy server? I thoguht pressing alt was the option if you wanted to boot from disc?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FN-GM View Post
    really? These are 6 year old macs. does it support proxy server? I thoguht pressing alt was the option if you wanted to boot from disc?
    Sorry, no idea. I've only been using macs for the last year.

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    Ok thanks, does anyone else have the drivers please?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CyberNerd View Post
    Hold ALT and it re-images it from the interweb. You don't need the disk.
    Only Mac's from 2010 onwards have the Internet Recovery feature.

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    If your iMac's are from 2006, your model ID will probably be iMac5,1 so you will need these drivers.

    www.cafe-encounter.net/p682/download-bootcamp-drivers
    Last edited by Arthur; 12th December 2012 at 01:41 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FN-GM View Post
    They are upgrade packages only
    I don't think so - the links on my website that JonThompson quotes are not update packages, they are the drivers (or as Apple calls them, "Windows Support Software") that you need.
    However, for opening the downloaded pkg file a machine with no OS X, you do also need the instructions on Opening a BootCamp driver download or other pkg or dmg file on Windows 7 or 8 with 7-Zip | Chris F Carroll
    Cheers, Chris

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    Hi,
    The link you have posted are for specfic devices, none of them are the correct one. Ideally i just need the snow leopard bootcamp drivers as these work.

    Thanks

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    Source yourself a replacement disc?

    Mac OSX in Operating Systems | eBay

    More to the point, why have iMacs running just Windows? :-S
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