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alex_free

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Boot Camp 64 Enabler

Apple does not officially support running 64-bit versions of Windows on all Macs with 64-bit processors. No official Boot Camp installer for example will run on the Early 2009 MacBook 5,2 running Windows 7 64-bit.

Boot Camp 64 Enabler allows Macs with a mobile Nvidia chipset (i.e. it has a 9400M or other Nvidia 'M' GPU in it) that do not officially support 64-bit Windows/Boot Camp 4 to run Windows 7 64-bit like an officially supported Mac by using a modifed Boot Camp 4 and updated Nvidia drivers.

I have been using this for a few days on the MacBook 5,2, I hope this helps someone else with the same situation.

Note: You could probably update to Windows 8 then Windows 10, or maybe even Windows 10 directly after using this, but Windows 7 is what I want so I haven't tried.
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MacFoxG4

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Would love to try this on my early 2009 mini, but the link no longer works and I can’t find the program anywhere online. Anybody have a copy of this?
 

Nguyen Duc Hieu

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Would love to try this on my early 2009 mini, but the link no longer works and I can’t find the program anywhere online. Anybody have a copy of this?

The program is not essential.
Instead of running the bootcamp exe files, just search for the relevant compressed file, unzip it and install driver manually.

Or follow the below video guide.

 
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