Man, I *hate* it when that happens ....
Ok, so it finally happened. I got pooched by Bill and Steve in the same day. Let me explain. My MacBook Pro running Vista 32 bit caught a cold. I know, I know, you are shocked that this could even happen to *my* computer given that I have virus and spyware protection up the wazzoo and I am pretty frickin' careful. I turned off my main virus protection (only for web pages and only for one second!) and so I was counting on Windows Defender alone at that point. Alas, my faith was ill founded and .... Blammo.
I tried everything to get rid of this pest, and the more I tried the more screwed up my Vista partition became. No worrries I thought. I just came off a project so if this was going to happen, now was as good a time as any to repartition my MacBook hard drive and give more space to Vista -- thereby nuking the Windows partition, virus and all, in the process.
Now here's the part where I felt like kickin' Steve in the butt. I boot Tiger only to find that I can't repartition the hard drive becuase the BootCamp Beta 1.4 expired long ago -- so I tried setting the clock back to before last September and that didn't work either. Sheesh. A forced upgrade. I hate it when that happens, but oh well, there is some good here. Since Leopard supports Vista 64 I rushed out and picked up the latest MacOS. It installed pretty quickly, I ran BootCamp Assistant to make my Windows partition larger, so far ... so good. Following the BootCamp instructions I installed Vista 64 bit on the new, larger partition, and when that booted up I inserted my Leopard disk only to find that the BootCamp drivers don't install cleanly. The keyboard driver service won't start. No network driver. Crap. Hours go by ... scouring the internet looking for the network driver. Thank god for this guy, who directed me here. Ok, now I am limping along with a network connnection, and I go to the Apple support page to find a Vista 64 BootCamp 2.1 update. Great! Ahhh, not so great. It seems Apple in its infinite wisdom released an update to version 2.0, but failed to release version 2.0! So, the update won't install -- and what's worse? It fails silently with no log message or notification to the user. After a lot more searching, I finally found verion 2.0 drivers in this torrent.
Finally! My MacBook is now running Vista 64 SP1 -- no thanks to you, yes I am wagging my finger at you Bill and Steve -- you may now hang your heads in shame.
flame off.
I tried everything to get rid of this pest, and the more I tried the more screwed up my Vista partition became. No worrries I thought. I just came off a project so if this was going to happen, now was as good a time as any to repartition my MacBook hard drive and give more space to Vista -- thereby nuking the Windows partition, virus and all, in the process.
Now here's the part where I felt like kickin' Steve in the butt. I boot Tiger only to find that I can't repartition the hard drive becuase the BootCamp Beta 1.4 expired long ago -- so I tried setting the clock back to before last September and that didn't work either. Sheesh. A forced upgrade. I hate it when that happens, but oh well, there is some good here. Since Leopard supports Vista 64 I rushed out and picked up the latest MacOS. It installed pretty quickly, I ran BootCamp Assistant to make my Windows partition larger, so far ... so good. Following the BootCamp instructions I installed Vista 64 bit on the new, larger partition, and when that booted up I inserted my Leopard disk only to find that the BootCamp drivers don't install cleanly. The keyboard driver service won't start. No network driver. Crap. Hours go by ... scouring the internet looking for the network driver. Thank god for this guy, who directed me here. Ok, now I am limping along with a network connnection, and I go to the Apple support page to find a Vista 64 BootCamp 2.1 update. Great! Ahhh, not so great. It seems Apple in its infinite wisdom released an update to version 2.0, but failed to release version 2.0! So, the update won't install -- and what's worse? It fails silently with no log message or notification to the user. After a lot more searching, I finally found verion 2.0 drivers in this torrent.
Finally! My MacBook is now running Vista 64 SP1 -- no thanks to you, yes I am wagging my finger at you Bill and Steve -- you may now hang your heads in shame.
flame off.
posted by John Free at
4:49 AM
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