Feb 12, 2014 For more information on Boot Camp, click here. Note: If you are using one of the Macs listed below, you should download Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621 instead. MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Mid 2011) MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook Pro (13-inch, & 15-inch, Early 2011). Mar 14, 2013 The download file is a.zip file. Double click it to uncompress it. Double-click the Boot Camp disk image. Copy the entire contents of the.zip file to the root level of a USB flash drive or hard drive that is formatted with the FAT file system. Author Chris F Carroll Posted on 16th June 2012 7th October 2020 Categories Apple Boot Camp Problems, Computers, WindowsOnMac Tags bootcamp, cross-platform, Lion, mac, Windows 120 thoughts on “Mac OS X Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard: Download BootCamp Drivers”.
- Free boot camp 3.3 download for mac. System Tools downloads - Apple Boot Camp by Apple, Inc. And many more programs are available for instant and free download.
- Download Bootcamp 4.0 Dmg Download Double click the DMG to make its content available (name will show up in the Finder sidebar), usually a window opens showing the content as well. Drag the application from the DMG window into /Applications to install (may need an administrator password) Wait for the copy process to finish.
tl;dr:
- Download and extract the Apple Boot Camp drivers I repackaged: BootCamp-061-51481.zip
- Right-click
BootCamp/Drivers/Apple/AppleKeyboardMagic2/Keymagic2.inf
(orBootCamp/Drivers/Apple/AppleKeyboard/Keymagic64.inf
or appropriate driver) and then 'Install'. - Unplug and re-plugin your keyboard.
- If you want to reverse the fn key behavior, change
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesKeyMagicOSXFnBehavior
andHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesKeyMagicOSXFnBehavior
from01
to00
. Restart for registry changes to take effect.
If those drivers don't work, try getting latest from the source:
- Download latest exe from Brigadier release page.
- Find the latest or a current Mac model (ex:
MacBookPro16,3
). - Run
brigadier.exe -m MacBookPro16,3
to download Apple Boot Camp drivers.
If you can't or don't want to use Brigadier, see the bottom of this post.
Note: I have not tested this over Bluetooth. I keep my keyboard connected via the supplied lightning to USB cable.
I recently acquired an Apple Magic Keyboard and wanted to use it on my PC. It worked when I plugged it in but I could not access any of the media keys/fn keys (ex: volume up and down). This is because Windows was using the default keyboard drivers.
When I first started looking for solutions I found hacky, unsigned drivers and key mappers. These were not ideal.
Download Bootcamp 4.0 Dmg Reader
Apple actually does supply Windows drivers for Apple Keyboards, Apple Magic Keyboards, and apparently other Apple Mouse and Trackpad devices. Apple created these for Boot Camp (a program that allows you to run Windows in a virtual machine in OSX). However, there is not an easy way to access them. Normally, Apple wants you to download and install a large suite of software and drivers meant for Boot Camp which will do all kinds of nasty things to your PC. Thankfully, the keyboard and other drivers can be isolated and installed independently.
Download Boot Camp Drivers
If you want to skip this section, you can download the drivers I extracted from the bellow process and see if they work for you: BootCamp-061-51481.zip
Because we are not going through Boot Camp, the first challenge is getting access to the Boot Camp drivers. The easiest way to do so is to use the Brigadier program. This automatically locates the URL for a given Mac model and downloads and extracts the appropriate Boot Camp drivers. If you can't or don't want to use this program, see the bottom of this post.
Download the latest exe from the releases page and run it like so:
MacBookPro16,3
is the model of the latest MacBook Pro (at the time of writing) which I got from this page. I used this model because I wanted to ensure I got the latest drivers.
Download Bootcamp 4.0 Dmg Windows 10
This will create a folder next to brigadier.exe
named something like BootCamp-061-51481
. The numbers in the name will be whatever version of Boot Camp drivers were downloaded.
Install Drivers
Navigate to BootCampDriversAppleAppleKeyboardMagic2
for Apple Magic Keyboard drivers. I have not tested this, but I assume you would use BootCampDriversAppleAppleKeyboard
for other Apple Keyboards. Or, $WinPEDriver$AppleMultiTouchTrackPadPro
for Apple Magic Trackpad 2, etc. I don't think there is any harm in installing more drivers than you need as only the appropriate ones will be used, but that is also untested.
Right-click Keymagic2.inf
(or whichever .inf
file exists for your driver) and then 'Install' to install the driver.
After installation is complete, unplug and re-plugin your keyboard. If everything worked, you should be able to use the Volume Up/F12 (without holding the fn key) and the Volume will change. To debug, check in device manager; 'Apple Keyboard' should be listed under 'Human Interface Devices'.
Change fn Key Behavior
By default, when the fn key is not held, the media keys will be activated. When the fn keys is held the F1-12 keys will be activated.
To reverse the fn key behavior, open RegEdit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesKeyMagic
and update OSXFnBehavior
key from 01
to 00
(in the binary editor this will update from 00000000 01 .
to 00000000 00 .
).
Not sure if this is necessary, but also navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesKeyMagic
and make sure the OSXFnBehavior
key has the same value.
Restart your PC for the registry changes to take effect.
Extra Drivers
Poking around in the Boot Camp package, I noticed several other drivers of note. BootCampDriversAppleAppleKeyboardInternalUSB
may be related to the USB ports on Apple keyboards. There are also some drivers that looked to be related to Apple Mice, Trackpads, Cameras, Displays, etc:
- BootCampDriversAppleAppleCamera
- BootCampDriversAppleAppleKeyboard
- BootCampDriversAppleAppleKeyboardInternalUSB
- BootCampDriversAppleAppleKeyboardMagic2
- BootCampDriversAppleAppleKeyManager
- $WinPEDriver$AppleMultiTouchTrackPad
- $WinPEDriver$AppleMultiTouchTrackPadPro
- $WinPEDriver$AppleWirelessMouse
- $WinPEDriver$AppleWirelessTrackpad
This is not a full list of drivers. Just the ones I found interesting. I have not tested any of these. Again. I don't think there is any harm in installing more drivers than you need as only the appropriate ones will be used, but that is also untested.
Brigadier Alternative
If you can't or don't want to use Brigadier, you can manually find, download, and extract the Boot Camp drivers. Brigadier uses this XML file (at the time of writing, subject to change) to locate the correct package. You can do this manually by downloading the XML file, opening it with a text editor, and searching for the BootCampESD.pkg
URL with the latest PostDate
. Downlad the .pkg
file and extract the contents using 7-Zip, WinZip, WinRAR, or any other utility capable of unpacking .pkg
and .dmg
files:
- Extract
Payload~
fromBootCampESD.pkg
- Extract
.LibraryApplication SupportBootCampWindowsSupport.dmg
fromPayload~
(this file is actually an archive). - Extract the contents of
WindowsSupport.dmg
Here are the 7-Zip commands used to accomplish the above:
Do you find that BootCamp assistant download is stuck or or fails or could not continue?
The brute force solution: it's a darned large download, so physically take your machine to somewhere with a very fast internet connection that can download 600MB - 1GB in a couple of minutes. There, you're done.
For the rest of us, there are 2 options:
The simple solution – recommended – is to use this list of Windows driver download links for Macs with OS X Mountain Lion (which includes all retina display macs) or Lion, Snow Leopard or Leopard. That's about everything back to 2007.
There are also older links here, but they appear to be redundant -- the Mountain Lion file covers Mac models going back to Leopard.
Finally, the DIY solution: Work out for yourself which download link you need.
The DIY way to find your BootCampESD.pkg download link from the sucatalog
Not for the faint-hearted.
My steps to download the Lion or Mountain Lion drivers were as follows:
How to Manually Download Windows Drivers for Macs Running BootCamp 4 or BootCamp 5
- Download from apple the http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog file. Don't double-click it, that won't help.
- Instead, open it in a text editor or word processor.
- Search for each occurrence -- as at August 2012 there were 6 -- of BootCampESD.pkg. For instance, the one I needed is http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/33/54/041-2011/pRtCDYcWShMLxFggy3TzFzmfnnWQNFQBfJ/BootCampESD.pkg
- Notice in each such URL, the /041-2011/ or similar /041-XXXXX/ bit of it.
- Below each such occurrence, notice a URL for a file with the same 041-XXXXX in it and ending in English.dist, e.g. 041-2011.English.dist
- Paste the URL for each such English.dist file into your browser and open the Url. Here's a list of them:
- Search for the Model Identifier for your Mac. For instance MacBookPro5,2 or Macmini4,1 or whatever
- For instance the 041-2011 file contains these models: MacBook2,1 MacBook3,1 MacBook4,1 MacBook5,1 MacBook5,2 MacBook5,3 MacBook6,1 MacBook7,1 MacBookAir1,1 MacBookAir2,1 MacBookAir3,1 MacBookAir3,2 MacBookPro2,1 MacBookPro2,2 MacBookPro3,1 MacBookPro4,1 MacBookPro5,1 MacBookPro5,2 MacBookPro5,3 MacBookPro5,4 MacBookPro5,5 MacBookPro6,1 MacBookPro6,2 MacBookPro7,1 MacBookPro8,1 MacBookPro8,2 MacBookPro8,3 MacPro1,1 MacPro2,1 MacPro3,1 MacPro4,1 MacPro5,1 Macmini2,1 Macmini3,1 Macmini4,1 iMac5,1 iMac6,1 iMac7,1 iMac8,1 iMac9,1 iMac10,1 iMac11,1 iMac11,2 iMac11,3 iMac12,1 iMac12,2
- How do you know your Model Identifier? Open System Information, and look in the Hardware Overview section. i.e. click Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info… -> Report -> Hardware -> and now read down the Hardware Overview looking for 'Model Identifier:'
- Having found your 041-XXXXX number, download the BootCampESD.pkg url that has your number in it. I try to keep the page at bootcamp-driver-download up to date with all the pkg download URLs.
- Be patient as it's probably 600MB.
- Once your pkg is downloaded, double click it and install to a folder on your hard drive so you know where to find it.
- The folder contains a nest of folders, the last of which contains a dmg disk image file. Double click to open. Voila. Here are your Windows installer files. Again, the page at bootcamp-driver-download has pictures to help.
- Copy them to a thumb drive or a burnable CD or something. The point here is that you need the somewhere that a new install of windows with only minimal drivers can read them. NB, it's still 660MB or more, so it's a full CDs worth of burning time.
- You can now proceed with Boot Camp assistant Windows installation, which will eventually reboot your machine for startup in Windows.
- Once you're in Windows, run the installer that you saved to CD or thumb drive.
- Done. Marvel as all your Apple hardware now works nearly as well as it does in Mac OS X.