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I was able to locate Boot Camp 2.1 drivers online here   I've installed the linked drivers and so far everything seems to be working.  MacBook1,1 on Windows 7 SP1 Since this machine has a tiny 60Gb HDD, I'm working with a 35Gb Boot Camp partition. I've successfully installed Service Pack 1. So there's that, I did get this warning prior to updating to SP 1. Windows 10 nag screen LOL! So what's next? Option 1: do an in-place update of Windows 10 to find out if a) the drivers for Windows 7 will work b) if Windows 10 will run smoother on it vs my Wind U123H. If this pans out I might remove the tiny stock 60Gb HDD replace it with my spare 500Gb HDD and do a fresh install of Windows 10. Option 2: skip the in-place update, go directly to swapping out the drive and do a fresh install of OS X Leopard 10.5.x and do a clean install of Windows 10 and just hope the Windows 7 drivers work. Option 3: I could stay with Windows 7 SP1 however mainst...

How to prepare your MacBook for re-sale or to give away.  Recently someone asked for help on wiping her MacBook so she can sell it. So what do you need to do before selling your MacBook?  This is what I did on her machine.  1. Backup w/ Time Machine 2. De-authorize iTunes. -- You only have 5, why waste them.  3. Log-out iMessages. 4. Download OSX create bootable USB. -- I borrowed my brother's bootable Yosemite stick.  5. Erase Mac using Find My iPhone app (or iCloud) -- I think this is the easiest way to delete everything on it.  6. Re-install OSX. -- After step 5, you will have a computer without an operating system. You can re-install using your recovery partition but the whole OSX will have to be downloaded (that's what happened to me first) that's why it's better to have a bootable USB stick with the OS ready.  Here is Apple's official guide, which I did not follow, because I only thought of searching for it after I had fi...