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pford

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Aug 25, 2015
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Greetings,

I've had this issue for a while and gotten no help from Apple. No response by email and a real run around trying to use their discussion group - having to re-login multiple times and told the page I want cannot be found.

Anyways getting to the point I get the following message when trying to run Boot Camp Assistant:

Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used.

This Mac does not support Boot Camp.

Which is ridiculous because I used to run Windows via Boot Camp until it stopped working, so now I would like to reinstall it.

This is my current configuration:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro5,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.39f5

System Version: macOS 10.12.1 (16B2555)
Kernel Version: Darwin 16.1.0

Boot Camp Assistant Version 6.1.0, Copyright © 2016 Apple Inc. All rights reserved
 

ActionableMango

macrumors G3
Sep 21, 2010
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If you are putting Windows onto its own drive, you don't need to use boot camp assistant at all. Just insert the Windows install media and install to the correct drive. I strongly suggest removing the non-Windows drives first.

After installation, download and install the boot camp drivers.
 
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CapnDavey

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Apr 11, 2015
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If you are putting Windows onto its own drive, you don't need to use boot camp assistant at all. Just insert the Windows install media and install to the correct drive. I strongly suggest removing the non-Windows drives first.

After installation, download and install the boot camp drivers.

Ill second that this is what I did on my 06 mac pro worked just fine
 
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