How To Download Windows Support Software For Mac Without Bootcamp

I have windows installed without a mac partition now.

How to download windows support software for mac without bootcamp. Moreover the install disk and the recovery disk are showing that the mbp is still on lion the install disk is still showing the install snow leopard dialogue box while the recovery disk is showing the option set up and restore lion or something like that i can t remember while when choosing the startup disk it shows macintosh hd mac os x 10 6 7. Now choose your windows installer usb as the target location to store the driver files. Download the bootcamp support drivers. Then hold the option key for some seconds till the usb drive should appear on the screen. As usual launch boot camp assistant app on your mac and click action tab on menu bar where you can see an option named download windows support software.

From the menu bar at the top of your screen choose action download windows support software then choose your usb flash drive as the save destination. The apple support page says that it is for up to windows 8. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant. Open boot camp assistant which is in the utilities folder of your applications folder. The wonderful tim sutton wrote a script that allows us to download the bootcamp drivers for a specific mac from the command line under windows.

The boot camp support software did not work for my installation of windows 10. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant. To do this you should download and install windows support software with the help of boot camp assistant. When done i clicked the x to close the window. In fact i would personally say that boot camp assistant is one of the worst apps that comes with os x and unlike the rest it doesn t work seamlessly.

Installing windows on a mac should be a piece of cake with bootcamp but that rarely is the case. Therefore you have the created usb bootable drive with yourselves. It s specifically designed to extract the drivers we need without having to start the apple made installer from macos. In order to download newer drivers for my mac i have to have boot camp installed on mac. From the menu bar at the top of your screen choose action download windows support software then choose your usb flash drive as the save destination.

I ended by going to the apple menu and shutting down my mac as usual. Open boot camp assistant which is in the utilities folder of your applications folder.