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boot camp assistant

  1. H

    can't install windows

    Hi guys, hope someone can help me i have a macbook 13' 2017 and i'm trying to install windows on it so the first step ep is to configure the boot camp assistant and here's the first problem (see first pic) so i go to the disk utility to create a partition and now i have the second problem (see...
  2. BananasMac

    Option to “Install Windows 10 or later version” is greyed out

    (posted already on r/bootcamp for help, just posting here in case there could be more) Hi there, I’m trying to install Windows 10 on my Mid-2012 MacBook Pro (9,2) running Mojave and Boot Camp Assistant only allows me to create an install disk and download Windows support software from Apple. I...
  3. xk33dv

    bootcamp not making progress

    i am trying to install windows with bootcamp so i started it and opend activity monitor and after the 2.5gb written mark it starts to get way slower and it stops at 3.18gb written. i tried restarting a cuople times and it always stops at 3.18gb written. please help
  4. C

    Boot Camp Assistant does not recognise second SSD

    Hello, This is a Late 2015 27" iMac with 1TB NVMe SSD and 2TB SATA SSD on it. MacOS is installed on NVMe and I'd like to install Windows 10 in a partition on the SATA drive. Whatever I did Boot Camp Assistant does not offer an option to install it onto the SATA drive. I tried different...
  5. G

    MP 1,1-5,1 MP3,1 Boot Camp - AHCI MBR patch Safe Mode issue

    Hello everyone, I've already posted about this in the old "Enable AHCI Tutorial" linked below. Any help appreciated! In short: the patch works but prevents me from entering Windows Safe Mode: Tutorial: Enable SATA AHCI Mode in Windows 7,8,8.1 & 10
  6. E

    Running Boot Camp/Windows partition on MacbookPro with internal Samsung Evo M.2 SSD

    I replaced the factory SSD on my mid 2014 MacbookPro with a Samsung 970 Evo SSD and installed Big Sur. This works perfectly well. Later I tried to use Boot Camp Assistant to partition the drive and install Windows on the other partition. The Boot Camp Assistant process went as far as to create...
  7. nick7caz

    Resolved Flashed 5,1 2009 MP, need help Reinstalling OS

    Sorry if this has been discussed. Recently acquired a 2009 MP 4,1>5,1 with RX 580. I can see the os image from the bootcamp viewer, but it wont boot into macos Catalina. It will just re boot into windows. I may have deleted the macos boot from the image, but not sure. Holding option brings...
  8. PieTunes

    How up to date are Boot Camp drivers?

    Greetings, For those who Boot Camped, I'm curious about something. I might do it after I get my 2020 iMac delivered. How up to date does Apple maintain the drivers? If I receive my machine and start the process, are the included drivers recent and compatible with the new hardware in the...
  9. 0

    USB became write-protected after trying to install Windows on BOOTCAMP

    I tried to install windows using BootCamp, and it formatted my usb and loaded windows files and gave me an error that not enough space available, so I changed my mind and wanted to use my pen drive for other works, but bootcamp made it write-protected not able to format it or edit it, Tried...
  10. Ali Kaghazgaran

    Windows not starting up after resizing with Paragon Hard Disk Manager

    Hey everyone, so i wanted to shrink my boot camp drive, & I didn’t want to remove it & install it again (since winclone didn’t work for me), so i used paragon hard disk manager. I resized & it was ok. Then i boot up on windows to check if it was ok, but it didn’t startup & i got the blue screen...
  11. tiange123

    MP 6,1 Boot Camp doesn't work, windows cannot be installed

    I tried to format my SSD drive serval times, degraded the system to osx 10.13.6 and managed to keep the disk format as HFS+ in order to install windows 10. But every time I install the windows 10 through Boot Camp, it doesn't boot windows installation and creates an empty Boot Camp partition. I...
  12. N

    Trying to avoid Boot Camps install partition.

    Hello, I have an iMac 27" 2017 model with a 128GB flash blade and a 1TB flash SSD inside. I'm on Mojave and I use the big HD for macOS and the small one for Boot Camp. When I install Windows via Boot Camp the BC Assistant creates a 8GB partition named Wininstall that contains the Windows iso...
  13. J

    Installed windows 10 on 2011 MBP, but unable to finish setting up boot camp

    I used this video: to install windows 10 on my early-2011 MBP. It worked fine until about 8:22 in the video. It says to install boot camp and then another page will pop up asking if you want to install using compatibility settings. But when I click on the file to install boot camp, first it...
  14. O

    Boot Camp Assistant not recognize ISO

    The ISO was downloaded from Microsoft official website and copied from a USB drive. However, Bootcamp assistant failed to detect the ISO file.
  15. Shunnabunich

    Installing Windows 7 on Mid-2011 iMac

    Hi folks! I recently replaced my 2011 iMac's failing internal hard drive with a nice, spacious 4TB chonker, and decided I could spare the room for a Windows partition again — it's been a few years, and there are a few Windows-only games I wouldn't mind trying to play again. Thing is, my iMac...
  16. juliovg

    boot camp problem - Macpro5.1

    Hello everybody i update my old mac pro , to a mac pro5.1, and now i have Mojave installed. The problem now is with Boot Camp on the image you can see that i can't install windows on a partition, because Boot Camp is not compatible with my Mac. there is an option to solve this problem? Thanks...
  17. mikezang

    Create Bootable Windows 10 USB memory on Mac mini 2009 late

    I still use a old Mac mini 2009 late with El Capitan, then I have some old laptops: ThinkPad T60 with Windows XP, Acer ES1-131 With Windows 10 that can't be recovery. So I want to create a bootable Windows 10 USB memory, What can I do? Google told me to use Boot Camp. I run Boot Camp Assistant...
  18. that1_ernie

    Boot Camp on mid 2014 MBPr

    hello, i have a mid 2014 MBPr running with a samsung 960 evo 500gb ssd and i cant figure out how to successfully launch windows 10 on my boot camp partition. last attempt it crashed on the end of the installation process. keep getting error “The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an...
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    Boot camp with win10 educational lincense

    Hey, ok, so I tried installing win10 educational license on my MBP. The whole system crashed and after trying this another time, same result. I even contacted Apples chat support about this problem, getting referred to their own page, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468, about boot camp...
  20. coanmenell

    MAC PRO 2010 BOOTCAMP MAJOR ISSUE PLEASE HELP

    UPDATE: Apparently the GeForce 1050 Ti 4GB doesn't allow you to see the screen during boot which doesn't allow you to input key commands for recovery mode or boot select. The computer was booting from the last OS that was ran but still didn't explain why my drives were not being recognized. So...