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Hi there,

I am planning to partition my 120gb MacBook Pro hard drive, through Boot Camp, in order to install Windows Vista Home Premium.

Upon reading Apple's Boot Camp directions, however, I discovered that I would need to find my Leopard DVD for the new drivers.

I can't find the Leopard disc anywhere... I am worried I have misplaced it. Is there anyway I can get on with installing the Windows drivers without my Leopard disc? Is there a non-torrent version of the file out there on the web?

Any advice would be great.

Cheers,

Tom

Mr.Baker. writes...

s there a non-torrent version of the file out there on the web?

Don't believe so. Is there a reason you don't / can't use BT to get it?

dfunked writes...

Is there a reason you don't / can't use BT to get it?

No, not especially, I'm just wary that a file called 'setup.exe' claiming to be the Windows drivers for 10.5 Boot Camp could really be anything, but I suppose it's worth a shot.

you should be able to get apple to replace the disc for a small cover charge

if you don't want to torrent it then this may be your best bet

Mr.Baker. writes...

No, not especially, I'm just wary that a file called 'setup.exe' claiming to be the Windows drivers for 10.5 Boot Camp could really be anything, but I suppose it's worth a shot.

The one at the bay is definitely legit (can vouch for that). ~350MB zip file.

dfunked writes...

The one at the bay is definitely legit

Can't find the file..??

Mr.Baker. writes...

Upon reading Apple's Boot Camp directions, however, I discovered that I would need to find my Leopard DVD for the new drivers.

call apple give them your macbook serial number and ask for a replacement leopard cd will cost you about 12.95 to get one.

Technically you meant to have the disk but if you cant find it (I had left mine at home when I needed it at work one day) then you can do it this way.

Open Utilities
Control click Boot Camp Assistant > Show Package Contents
Open Contents > Resources
Mount Diskimage.dmg
Copy contents of Diskimage to either a USB Key or a cd.

Job done. That's the same install package that is on the Leopard disk. Just un setup.exe and away you go.

Hope this helps.

Hi All

I have an urgeny question. You are probably going to think I am a complete idiot but oh well.

I recently bought a macbook and today I started to use BootCamp to load Windows Vista. All went smoothy.... untill akes to enter the Leopard DVD. I dont have this. Now when I start the computer it only comes up with Windows and I cant find anywhere to allow me to swicth back to Mac. Have I totally stuffed up?? Have I lost my mac operating system? Or is it just stuck on the computer somehow and all i need is to purchase the leopard DVD??

I need help badly. I initially bought the Mac because I have been told by a number of people that its better for music production applications. However I have always used Windows and as such I wanted windows available also.

If I buy the Leopard DVD (at approx $170!!), will that enable me to open up mac again and use both mac and Windows? Is there a way to bypass having to buy the leopard DVD? I am a cheap scate you see.

Honestly, I dont mind admitting that I am a bit of a spaz with computer specifications. Pleas help

**Rinn**

You should have really read the documentation that it suggests you print out.

Are you actually on Leopard? I'm assuming you downloaded an older version of Boot Camp off a torrent?

Anywho, hold down alt/option as you see the grey boot screen.

If you installed Vista to the wrong partition, then yeah, you hosed your OS X installation and you'll have to start again. Otherwise you've just got the Windows partition set as the startup disk (you can change it in OS X under System Preferences > Startup Disk, or Windows in Control Panel > Startup Disk). To see it in Windows though, you have to install all the Boot Camp drivers and utilities which are on the Leopard DVD (or available through BT etc).

The alt/option method is only a temporary solution.