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<div>If your MacBook Pro does NOT have an optical drive (i.e. a Retina display model), then installing from USB is the only way to install Windows. However, you mentioned you downloaded an ISO from Microsoft. It is not sufficient to just copy the ISO to a USB flash drive. You need to make the USB stick bootable. Boot Camp Assistant should have taken care of this for you. There is an option within Boot Camp Assistant that says "Create Windows Install Disk".</div><div></div><div></div><div>In either case, you do not see a Windows option in your Startup Disk control panel because Windows is not installed and there is no Windows install media in any drive it can boot from. Whatever options you selected, all Boot Camp Assistant did was create a partition for you. It did not actually copy anything over to it. The partition is empty.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>windows 11 download boot camp</div><div></div><div>Download File: https://t.co/N9O2qiWKFv </div><div></div><div></div><div>Your Mac will now restart, and you'll be brought right back to macOS. To get back to Windows 10, and indeed another way to switch from Windows 10 to macOS, is to restart your Mac and hold down the Option key on your keyboard until a boot menu appears. From here, you can choose which OS to load.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The official Apple website says that you cannot get Windows 10 for free from Bootcamp Assistant, but on more than a few websites, it says that all you have to do is download an ISO file from the official windows website, which'll then allow you to put it into Bootcamp Assistant and then you'll just have to do some other stuff and then you'll be able to use Windows 10 or something.</div><div></div><div></div><div>After not using my computer for a while (turned off) I booted it back up to windows through boot camp. After I left the computer overnight, taking into mind there was a scheduled update for windows. I came back to use it and windows seemed to not be working anymore. When windows is booted up it goes to windows repair. I ran CHKDSK using the CMD Prompt and majority of the partitions cannot be read so I canceled because of how long it was taking. When I went onto the OS X side, the windows is still readable, files can be accessed etc. However in the disk utility info option the boot camp partition says that it is unbootable (by saying no) the rest of the values also say no. What do I need to do to fix this issue? Without data being lost.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In your specific case, it seems to be corruption within NTFS. Power outages or crashes can leave NTFS corrupt, which is typically checked when you boot Windows the next time. Partial Driver updates or Windows Updates can also cause this issue. I will normally only apply Security Updates manually.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Now whenever I restart my mac I have to hold onto the option key to select the mac (and reboot it from there as it defaults to the Windows keyboard and the keys do not match, so I cannot submit my password - don't' ask).</div><div></div><div></div><div>Erasing the boot camp volume does nothing, as does unmounting. I'm too scared to play around with it beyond this. If I never had to touch Windows OS again I'd be happy, but it's an unfortunate evil. I've gone back to Parallels desktop.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I accept I may have sacrificed the disk space and may never be able to claim it (grrr can't think too hard about it). But I swear to Apple, they'll be taking this machine back if I can't stop it from booting up on Windows.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Hi,</div><div></div><div>I just installed Windows with Bootcamp. Everything worked fine. Windows worked and I could use it just fine. Then I rebooted into macOS using the little Bootcamp thing at the lower right corner in Windows. That worked too. Then I tried to reboot into Windows using the "Startup Disk" preference pane in macOS (I'm using Big Sur btw.). After I heard the mac-bootup-sound it didn't boot into Windows. Instead it booted into the GNU GRUB 2.04 command line. I also tried booting into windows using the "option-key-method" and selecting Windows but the GRUB command line still showed up (but I can still boot into macOS with no problem). I can't get past it even when typing exit it just reboots into this GNU GRUB 2.04 thing. All I know is that GRUB is a bootloader.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I'm trying to use bootcamp on an old Mac with Lion on it. It's fine when going through the process of downloading the latest Windows support software on a USB. The issue is that the only option is to install Windows 7 [1]. I insert my Win10 disk and even mount the .iso and it still doesn't detect an installer disk. [2]. The goal is to just have a working Win10 machine. I cannot upgrade to High Sierra because the Mac is so old. Thanks!</div><div></div><div></div><div>Did you check the system requirements for Windows 10? Not sure if it meets requirements but you can check here: -us/HT204990 Opens a new window</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>We have 5 macs with Bootcamp and I tried installing Win 10 on them, and it failed similarly and it ended up not meeting the requirements.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Using this executable, I was able to create a PowerShell function that will set the default boot option to my OS X partition and reboot my machine. Magically, the machine comes up in the Apple Operating system (and the stands with the silver chrome sweaters stand and cheer). I added a BootCamp.ps1 script to the functions directory of my PowerShell setup. My PowerShell profile automatically dot sources all the scripts in this directory so I can use them anywhere. I also added aliases for my function.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Thus, from PowerShell, I can boot to OS X with a single command and I can do it with one of many aliases (in case I forget what I called it. Issuing osx or mac are the shortest and easiest to remember. My PowerShell profile and all my scripts are available for reference or use at via a Bitbucket Mercurial repository.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s macOS (previously Mac OS X / OS X) that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers. The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ or APFS partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive or solid-state drive and installation of Windows device drivers for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the default boot operating system.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Officially, the earliest Macintosh models that support Windows 8 are the mid-2011 MacBook Air, 13-inch-mid-2011 or 15 and 17-inch-mid-2010 MacBook Pro(except 13" mid-2010), mid-2011 Mac Mini, 21-inch-mid-2011 or 27-inch-mid-2010 iMac(except the 21.5" mid-2010), and early 2009 Mac Pro.[15][16] By running the Boot Camp assistant with a compatible version of Microsoft Windows setup disc in the drive and switching to a Windows 8 disc when Mac OS X reboots the machine to begin installing Windows, Windows 8 can be installed on older unsupported hardware.[citation needed] This can also work with Windows 10. Pre-2011 Intel Macs would unofficially run later versions of Windows (Windows 8 through Windows 10).</div><div></div><div></div><div>At this point, the Windows installer has copied all the files to the external drive, and has set up a boot environment that you can start your Mac from. Next time you boot from the external drive, Windows will complete the installation process.</div><div></div><div></div><div>As others have pointed out make sure there are no quotes around the bootcamp.vmdk and also ejecting the disk before and after. It took me two iterations as the first one was with the quotes and that did not work. The second time all went well. Again I updated the Apple Bootcamp software twice and everything works.</div><div></div><div></div><div>FWIW there is a way of installing Windows on a partition on an external drive that requires no 3rd party tools. It does require using the command line, so lots of tedious careful typing. Have used this successfully on Monterey (Early 2015 MacBook Pro) and Mac mini 2018. Note that the Windows Bootcamp drivers are specific to your particular Mac model.</div><div></div><div></div><div>just create a win2go on the ext drive download the bootcamp stuff on a seperate drive boot the win2go and then install the boot camp support file you will need to have a ethernet cable or just hotspot your phone as a usb tether and everything works just fine did it the other day works perfect</div><div></div><div></div><div>If I use the bog standard Bootcamp installer it loads the Latest Bootcamp Drivers Prior to installation & then installs them automatically after it has installed Windows 10 I have no choice of the Bootcamp Drivers installing untill after Logging into My Windows account with NO WI-FI or blutooth drivers; that in itself is bad enough but my routers in the loft and requires roughly 50ft of ETHERNET CABLE to be plugged in before I am able to use any online updates or regerstering my account.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I have even disabled CSR to try and bypass the countless failed downloads of Bootcamp support software to no avail; the message is always the same DOWNLOAD COULD NOT CONTINUE. Anerror occurred while downloading Windows Support Software.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I did experiment a bit by cloning macOS Monterey onto an external SSD drive that only suffered a minimall loss of read write speeds; and loaded windows 10 directly onto the 128GB NVME and loaded all the data as a logical drive, I also tried it out as setting it up as a dynamic drive.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I have run into a snag, and am not sure how to resolve it. When I get to the step of selecting the bootcamp.vmdk file as the existing hard disk file to use, it gives me this error message.</div><div></div><div>Failed to open the disk image file /Users/macuser/bootcamp.vmdk.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I followed the directions as originally posted (DOS_FAT_32 with MBR on the external) and got all the way through the windows virtual install without a glitch. When I rebooted my mac, holding option, the only boot option that appeared was my Mac HD.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Oh thats a shame, if you do ever succeed in finding a workaround, please let me know. Im having to run windows on another laptop, carrying them both around is a real pain. There is nowhere near enough space on my hard drive to partition it for a windows installation.</div><div></div><div></div><div>When you hold the option key during boot, you should see all drives capable of booting. If you have both an internal bootcamp partition and an external bootcamp drive, you should see both as well as the Mac OS partition. If you are not seeing the external EFI drive then it is not bootable and something is wrong with it.</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>
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