Anyone have a clean, free guide on how to install Bootcamp on a internal PCIe SSD card that shows as external? The official procedure only works for internally recognized drives.
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Installing Windows/ Bootcamp on the Mac Pro (2019) on a PCIe SSD
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I did it some time ago to run an iMac Pro off a Samsung T3. Basically I think you just use an existing PC or virtual machine to install Windows to the drive, then add in Apple's device drivers once it's booted.
On the Mac Pro 7,1 you'll have to turn off the security boot stuff through recovery mode (command-R while starting up), and use Boot Camp Assistant just to download the drivers to put on a USB key (menubar command). I did both today with no issue, Windows 10 installed very smoothly (on the partitioned Apple SSD).
Edit: here's a guide.
They use a free trial of VMWare as the PC.
On the Mac Pro 7,1 you'll have to turn off the security boot stuff through recovery mode (command-R while starting up), and use Boot Camp Assistant just to download the drivers to put on a USB key (menubar command). I did both today with no issue, Windows 10 installed very smoothly (on the partitioned Apple SSD).
Edit: here's a guide.
They use a free trial of VMWare as the PC.
There's a bottleneck with that guide -- you can't unplug a PCIe card when you need to switch the SSD to the VM.
Turns out it’s way easier to just use the official procedure of installing off a bootable USB drive. Clean and runs perfectly.
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I have a Macbook pro, a couple of years old, which also has Windows on it. I want know sell it. I wanna know, does erasing files on MAC affect my Win drive? or, do I need to repeat the erasing procedure twice, one for MAC and other one for Win?
tnx
I have a Macbook pro, a couple of years old, which also has Windows on it. I want know sell it. I wanna know, does erasing files on MAC affect my Win drive? or, do I need to repeat the erasing procedure twice, one for MAC and other one for Win?
tnx
I know this is an old post but I have been trying this for too many hours using multiple techniques without success. Based on this post I moved the SSD from PCIE to a USB enclosure and it still didn't work. Windows 10 installs, but won't boot. I get the blue Windows screen then nothing. I have used WintoUSB, and multiple other stepwise processes. Using MacPro 2019. Catalina. New Samsung SSD on a Sonnet Tempo card. I have tried to follow every guide out there carefully.
Any help appreciated.
Just in case someone else reads this thread, I finally solved this. It was a driver issue. I have an XDR monitor running on thunderbolt, which windows did not recognize out of the box. Found an old HDMI monitor and got it done. I had to manually add multiple drivers from the Windows Support folder but so far it seems to be working.
Which drivers into what folder did you need to move?
I'm having major issues with my Mac Pro and getting bootcamp to work. I'm trying to do it on the original SSD and each time it runs through bootcamp/downloads the support files and restarts (where it should normally go to the windows installation window) it just goes blank like there's no screen signal at all - I'm running a 4k monitor/thunderbolt to DisplayPort - I have already tried straight hdmi to hdmi on an older monitor with no success!