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Phasma Felis
9th January 2007, 04:00 AM
Last month, I installed Boot Camp on my new Intel MacBook (13", 2GHz Core Duo, if that helps). All of the hardware worked fine after running the Boot Camp driver CD, including two-finger scrolling and two-finger-plus-button right-clicking. However, I wanted to add a third partition for data, and managed to bork the partition table somehow while trying (unsuccessfully) to set it up. I finally wiped the entire drive, started over following the triple-boot instructions on the Wiki, and reinstalled both XP and OSX.

Now, my partitions are great, but nothing I can do will get the two-finger trackpad functions working in XP. All the other hardware works fine. This is really frustrating since I know it has worked before, I just can't get it to now.

I did run the driver CD before Windows Update by mistake. Is that likely to make a difference? I've since run Windows Update and then re-run the driver CD, and spent several hours fiddling with hardware drivers in XP, to no avail. Any suggestions?

bdj21ya
10th January 2007, 06:01 AM
The two-finger right click isn't the same in Windows as it is in OS X. In Windows you have to hold 2 fingers on the pad while clicking the button. Does that help?

Phasma Felis
10th January 2007, 06:00 PM
Unfortunately, no. That method had worked before, but after reinstalling, it doesn't. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

I'm considering just wiping the partition and reinstalling yet again. I am using a nonstandard three-partition setup this time, as opposed to the two-partition setup that Boot Camp creates by default. That shouldn't affect the trackpad driver in any way, should it?

If it helps any, I've tried manually attaching the two trackpad-related drivers from Boot Camp (aapltp and aapltctp) to various input devices in Device Manager. The device under "Mice and other pointing devices" will accept aapltctp (which it sees as "Apple Trackpad filter"), but nothing will recognize aapltp as being correct.