I've messed up my bootcamp drivers

thesupermedium

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Today I decided to plug in my external hard drive for the first time in a while, and the device wouldn't install the driver. Being an idiot and following some advice on yahoo answers, I uninstalled a "USB mass storage" driver, which somehow has disabled my wireless connection. To further compound things, I was an idiot again and someone said to uninstall the wireless driver and reinstall it from bootcamp. Well, bootcamp will not do it (you already have a newer version, so the installer cannot continue, etc.). I'm stuck and have been pulling my hair out over this.

If it is relevant, I'm on a mid 2010 15 inch macbook pro. I believe the driver is the Broadcom one included in bootcamp, but when I installed that driver nothing happened.

Also, I'm on university wifi, so it requires a special program to connect to the internet.

If anybody has encountered something similar, could tell me how to reinstall Boot Camp without reinstalling windows (that isn't an option right now), or could somehow guide me, that would be awesome.

Thanks,
Chris
 

peshbone

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actually there is something that you can do, boot to mac os, then go to bootcamp in the utilities, then proceed to download windows support for bootcamp. then boot to windows again and go to control panel and uninstall the drivers and then run the downloaded windows support. after you finish installing you need to reboot. hope that works for you.