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Now use Windows Update to update the software and the hardware drivers. That can be done through the Windows control panel Programs and Features. The downside to Boot Camp doing it is you will have to remove it later on – you will not use the Boot Camp software for anything except this one action.

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Launch Boot Camp and let it install all your drivers.

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Install the actual drivers you need: Open each folder and launch the installer for that driver.

There you will see the Boot Camp folder on the DVD. That will format the drive NTFS, and Windows 7 will now install.Īfter you boot to the Windows Desktop, browse to the DVD drive. When you get to the disk selection, you will see the former Mac drive as “unallocated” space. Select the Windows 7 disc, then sit back and wait for the installer to come up. Put in the Windows 7 disc and restart the Mac using the Option key again. Then reboot and hold the mouse button down – this will eject your DVD. The goal is to just delete the Mac hard drive from the list that is presented. Gparted will automatically launch and has an interactive menu. Select the GParted disc you just created. Installing: Now do an Option key reboot – restart the computer holding down the Option key. You might be able to fit them on a CD-R by removing the drivers out of the Boot Camp folder you do not need, but DVDs are cheap these days, so save yourself that extra step. Now burn GParted and the Boot Camp 4 applications to a blank DVD. I did not try Boot Camp 5 – perhaps someone else can and will let us know if it works. You will run Windows Update later to update the drivers anyway. You will need the drivers for Windows to use. Then grab a copy of the Boot Camp 4 drivers.

The Windows 7 installer will not install on the Mac hard drive – it does not like Apple’s GPT format, and the installer will try to format it and in the end does nothing, so you will need this application/program to delete the Mac hard drive format. Just takes a couple of downloads.ĭownloads: First, grab an ISO of Gparted. Rather than recount that process here, let me instead show you what to do should you want to do this yourself.

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So rather than hunt the web for the answer, I decided to throw caution to the wind, grabbed a large glass of unsweetened tea and a snack, and in true American fashion, did it myself, making mistakes along the way and learning how to work around them. Apple even provides Windows drivers in Boot Camp, so could I not run Windows natively without using Boot Camp? Rather than apply the rather lengthily workaround that was suggested (but questionable), I instead got to thinking: Most, if not all, the hardware in the Mac Pro are standard PC cards or PC chips – the processor, RAM, video (nVidia GeForce GT 120), sound, network, and the like all had PC roots and PC drivers. Trusting DuckDuckGo, I went out on the web to search for it, and in three Windows forums, fellow Boot Camp users were reporting the same issue with their apps. Uttering a few swear words that would peal the paint of a ship, I rebooted. Coming back, I decided I would check Facebook, and again the same memory error occurred after just 5 minutes. Suddenly it quit to the Desktop! An error message appeared whose details basically told me that the game had violated rules on memory. The adrenalin was coursing through my veins as I sent in 94 Defiant class ships armed with the experimental “Critical Shot” ability through the wormhole to begin the destruction of Romulan forces. I had set up a brilliant torpedo/phaser defensive system and was constructing a fleet of Defiant class ships to take on all six Romulan players – six against one, the kind of odds I thrive on. It is, in the words of the developers, “a popular skirmish and multiplayer orientated total conversion modification for Activision’s real-time strategy game, Star Trek: Armada II.” It is a Windows game, and for that I was booted into Windows 7 via Boot Camp on a Mac Pro 3,1 machine. I was playing my favorite game the other day, Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations.

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