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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 1065338" data-attributes="member: 89124">You really went around installing windows in a way not really approved.  Bootcamp is much more then just partitioning.First operation of Bootcamp is to (in a single drive system, or multi drive system if you're sharing an existing drive) resize an existing partition and make it possible to install.  It also provides all the drivers and BIOS emulation necessary to be able to use a windows based OS on a Mac (realize, although Win7 supports EFI bios systems, OS' like XP does not, and neither did vista until SP1 so those OS' required an emulation layer there).  The OSX disc is setup like many other dual os discs where in Windows it will only show files stored in a windows compatible session and on OSX it will only show OSX compatible files (simple example of another older program that does this is Diablo - if you get a disc that is meant for Win9x and MacOS, you'll find you'll only see the MacOS executables when you mount the cd in a Mac OS).When you insert the OSX DVD (well, snow leopard as pointed out by Chscag for windows 7 compatible drivers; the leopard disc has XP and Vista drivers.) there is an executable file on there which will install a bootcamp control panel (to adjust things like which OS to boot into, activating firewire target disk mode on reboot, track pad functionality on a laptop, etc.) as well as all of the drivers for the Mac hardware.Dare I say, most people that do a Windows install on a Mac system will use the bootcamp software on the OSX side to setup the partitions and initiate a reboot for windows install rather then the butchered way you did it.  Honestly, you're lucky it worked - usually if systems are different enough, windows doesn't act nice when attempting to run an install on one piece of hardware on another.</blockquote>

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