Be warned, there are issues with 1.2 more or less bricking your Win partition b/c the USB and Key/Mouse drivers are crashing on install.
Damn Apple ...
Damn Apple ...
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WARNING - BootCamp 1.2 -- USB of DOOM!
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The Keyboard/Mouse drivers were either corrupted for me or just didn't install right. I had to boot up with an external keyboard/mouse and use those to correct the problem in Device Manager. I'm using my internal keyboard (MacBook) and my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse as I type.
I can attest to this, Bootcamp 1.2 bricked both my MBP and Mac Pro XP installations...
XP install, and I can't even plug in a USB mouse/Keyboard.
I can't login to fix anything, not even in safe mode.
I can't login to fix anything, not even in safe mode.
I had bricking issues with the previous Boot Camp (sorry I forget the version but it was the one before 1.2) and XP. Once I put in the BC drivers disc it'd install then endlessly cycle crashing on start-up, ruining the install I'd done. I had to give up in the end and just use Parallels. At one time it killed my Tiger install to the point where I couldn't boot a Firewire drive with a SuperDuper! clone on it unless I removed the internal HD! It was a mess.
Using 1.2 with Vista now and didn't have the same (or any) problems with the drivers.
Using 1.2 with Vista now and didn't have the same (or any) problems with the drivers.
Just an update on this. I got tired of waiting for Apple to fix this so I did some backups and just reformatted. I had been wanting a larger partition anyway, so I guess it worked out.
It's working fine now.
It's working fine now.