Boot Camp 64 Enabler - Run Windows 7 64-bit/Boot Camp 64-bit On Unsupported Macs

[alex_free]

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.

 

[Jaegor]

Hi Alex, your "Enabler" might be the answer to my problem! ...but I could not find it on your GitHub website, and the link Boot Camp 64 Enabler is broken.
I have been tinkering with OCLP on my iMac model 10,1 late 2009 / Nvidia 9400M, with SSD upgrade. Monterey runs fine, but now want to boot to Windows 10 64-bit too. The windows install is fine, and I ran Bootcamp package 041-84708 downloaded via "Bombardier" WITHOUT the Nvidia driver folders. So the "Microsoft basic display adapter" is all I have...
Is your Boot camp 64 Enabler project still alive?

 

[saxfun]

I'm interested too, Alex. I did install Ubuntu 24.04 (upgraded from 14 to 16 to 18 to 20 to 22 to 24) an a MacBookPro A1211, 64bit CPU with 32bit EFI. Is it possible to install windows 10 on it? and, next question, is it possible to install Win10 besides the existing ubuntu 24.04 ? How to archive this? I have some experience with diff. Distros of Linux and with a lot of diff. Versions of OSX. Windows, for sure, is another story . . .

 

[saxfun]

@alex_free is there any chance to develop the project further on or upload the old file again?