Comments on: Boot Camp: Windows 7 on iMac – Fix Black Screen

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:44:30 +0000

After many tries this finally worked….apple’s help was garbage

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:50:54 +0000

Hi guys, i have the same problem on windows installation but i cant find this files anywhere

i went to the path on windows/sys32/drivers/ but i cant find the .sys file

can someone help me?

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:12:28 +0000

Thkx ….:)

By: Hotrian

Hotrian — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:56:14 +0000

niccen, I realize this is a year old post I’m replying to, but I’m answering your problem for other users who might come across it.

What the article didn’t mention is that macFuse in itself, does not allow you to write to NTFS, which is what Windows uses. No, rather macFuse is a program that loads plugins, that allow you to do that. The most popular one being 3g-ntfs, which worked for me.

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

The above link is currently the main site for the project, but since it’s a no longer developed project, I can’t say how long that will remain active, or available.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/catacombae/files/NTFS-3G%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X/2010.10.2/ntfs-3g-2010.10.2-macosx.dmg/download

Above is the file you actually need to install and use, that’s the one that I just used today, and it worked awesome for me so far. The solution mentioned in the article also solved my black screen issue, so it’s still good :].

By: Ron Baines

Ron Baines — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:17:07 +0000

Brilliant great fix

By: Ben zilla

Ben zilla — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:19:46 +0000

Klaus, thank you so much, your solution work perfectly!

The horrible feeling of despair and frustration replaced by
JOY because of you! Well done and thanks again!

By: Layz

Layz — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:13:22 +0000

Thx very much! Win7 is up and running.

By: b8c

b8c — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:28:29 +0000

21.5″ IMac – black screen after second reboot during W7 install. Was pulling my hair out having tried (three times) the official USB formatted as an MBR approach with the video driver files windows. Your a gem thanks!

By: niccen

niccen — Sun, 01 May 2011 03:13:52 +0000

hey. encountered the same issue as everybody else here did. however, i installed macfuse, to gain access to my windows-folders located on my newly created partition. the problem is, i cannot delete or change the name of anything on that partition. i dont know why.. hence i cannot delete atikmdag.sys, to fix my blackscreen problem. any advice? im a novice mac-user, but well.. i cannot for some reason change the permissions for my partition where windows 7 is located.. and i really need to delete this file in order to get windows to work properly. any advice?

By: Time

Time — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:33:46 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS REALLY WORK. Macfuse didnt but the other one did. Thanks again

By: Bangedy

Bangedy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:27:37 +0000

Hi this article helped me at first , i discovered an easier way.
Seen as you already have the windows disk boot into it select repair load drivers brose to the path and file yoi said and just delete from there

By: Domdom

Domdom — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:05:23 +0000

Thanks a lot, this worked perfect.
And then Windows did about 70 updates.
No mouse or keyboard anymore!! luckily my bamboo did work.
So update with bootDVD of Drivers and 1 win update later all works fine.
Thank you very much!

By: Danone

Danone — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:16:44 +0000

you the MAN!!! thanks alot

By: Jonathan Grondin

Jonathan Grondin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:08:16 +0000

Thank you very much pal

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:04:49 +0000

You are the MAN!!

By: Jeroenxp

Jeroenxp — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:37:08 +0000

Thnx. I burned 4 dvd’s and they give all a black screen.
With this information it was quickly solved.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:24:37 +0000

I don’t want to marry you, but i think I’M FALLING IN LOVE
WITH YOU!!!! —

By: bootcamp

bootcamp — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:56:42 +0000

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By: miqviq

miqviq — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:32:43 +0000

FYI, you can also use Safe Boot in Windows 7.
Display resolution in Safe Boot mode is enough for doing the remove/rename operation of the troublesome ATI driver.
Worked for me with iMac10,1 (Late 2009).

By: Antony

Antony — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:20:32 +0000

Thanks for the solution!
This problem bother me every single time when I update the catalyst!

By: Camry

Camry — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:53:36 +0000

Thank u so much, you have no clue how much trouble windows 7 has given me

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:56:27 +0000

Just to let anyone reading this know: you can skip all of this if you have a mini display port adapter and an old monitor. When the screen goes black the output is still available on the external monitor and allows you to continue with the installation as normal. If you download and install the ATI update right after installation completes then you’re sorted.

A bit easier than editing the driver files.

By: Scoop

Scoop — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:31:55 +0000

Havnt tried this yet but will be when I get home but judging by the comments looks like it will definitely work so just incase I forget later, thanks!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:54:20 +0000

Thanks very much for the fantastic tip.

Worked perfectly. I used the demo of Paragon NTFS for Mac to gain access to the Windows bootcamp volume.

I deleted the file, restarted iMac in Windows and the installation finished it’s business nicely (and visibly

Imac 27″ Core i7 with Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:17:05 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this information. It saved me last night!