Which Windows For Mac Bootcamp
Theodora Andy
From your Mac, go to -download/windows10
Note The download site detects what Operating System you are using, and will only give you the correct options to do this if you go to the site from a Mac.
I am hoping for some advice in partitioning my new MacBook Pro's 500GB drive for software development. If possible I would like to create two partitions with one (the smaller) being used for Windows development, occasionally. I am not sure which Windows OS I will be installing (probably Windows 7). I will also be installing Visual Studio, and several browsers: IE, Safari, Firefox, etc.
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my iMac. I've gotten to the part where Windows setup asks for the bootcamp drivers, before Windows is installed ("Collecting information"). I've tried having the bootcamp drivers on both a usb 2.0 and a usb 3.0 external hard drive, and I still get the following error:
Actually if you look on Apples website they have updated about bootcamp 6.0.1 on El Capitan. All 2015 models do not need a USB stick to put Windows 10 ISO in. All 2015 Mac models from Macbook, Air, Pro, Mac Pro, and iMac do not need USB with Windows 10 ISO. You can simply download Windows 10 ISO file, put it on desktop, open bootcamp. Apple website says that all 2015 Macs have the install Mac bootcamp uploader files for Windows within a private partition that uploads after installing Windows and gets to start menu desktop. If you want to read more of what I just told go to -us/HT201468 It states right on there that 2015 Macs do not need USB for Windows 10 install on bootcamp anymore.
I have a Mac mini version 3 I believe (not really that important but I suspect people will ask) on which Windows 7 has been installed. I haven't used the computer for about a year and forgot the password (I've exhausted my guessing list). No matter what I do I can't reset the password.
After guessing I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 since I could do a system re-install, which actually would be nice, but that failed. The USB key is not recognized as a bootable option (using alt on the keyboard). I then tried to do a CD image but that also fails and is stuck on the "Select CD-ROM Boot Type" screen that many people have encountered. I've even tried the only solution that has been reported to work but it didn't work for me...
After installing windows with bootcamp, I'd try to delete the macOS partition (as well as a temporary partition that forever exists) and then moving and resizing the windows partition using windows software, all to no avail, I concentrated on how to make a bootable windows installation USB that works OOTB with the mbp touchpad and keyboard, and can see the partitions (as well as includes the bootcamp installation software).
Eventually I started looking into what bootcamp was doing to make it "work", but I couldn't figure out what it was doing. I then thought to myself. What happens if instead of booting into the windows installation (after bootcamp finishes whatever it does to patch/create the install) I boot into a windows 10 USB installation (full windows 10 on a USB).
Once I had booted into my windows USB, I was able to look into the partitions that the bootcamp software creates. One of them (IIRC) is called OSXRECOVERY (it was a relatively small exFAT partition between the original macOS partition and the currently empty windows partition). I had a look at the files within and it was a EFI bootable windows installation. I grabbed a usb disk and formatted it for exFAT. I then copied everything from the OSRECOVERY (or whatever it was called) to the USB.
So, after I saved it, I was able to reboot my laptop and hold the option key. The USB appeared as an EFI boot entry. I booted it and I was greeted with the language selection. The keyboard worked and the touchpad worked. I made my way through the various windows and (to my joy) I was presented with the list of partitions that was on the laptop's SSD. I was able to delete them all (farewell dear Monterey) and then created a new partition in which to install Windows.
The installation went as one would expect a windows installation to go. I was eventually at the windows desktop. All I had to do was run the bootcamp windows software installation, and everything worked as expected.
I had similar issues with Windows 7 64-bit on my Mac Pro. I got a BSOD when windows update was creating a restore point. The BSOD was caused by AppleHFS.sys. I was able to repeat this with 2 separate Windows 7 installs. Since this was a fairly fresh install I decided to re-install Windows 7. I was curious because I have not had any issues with my MacBook Pro. One big difference between the two is that my MacPro has a software RAID 1 HFS+ volume in addition to the boot volume. My MacBook Pro only has the single Mac volume.
EDIT - Don't try it! Unless you are willing to turn off Spotlight (mac Search functionality).. When you set up a FAT32 drive with a Mac as a permanent volume and it starts to index it for Spotlight, it adds metadata to "hidden" files which have the same name as the regular files but are formated with a ._ at the beginning (called "dot underscore files" if you want to learn more). I put "hidden" in quotes because while they are hidden files on your Mac, Dropbox picks them up and they become very visible files for everyone else. One of my shared folders was shared with a client, and I accidentally added extra, annoying files with ._ at the beginning of their name to tens of thousands of files! There is an easy fix:
That's the result of storing files on a non-native drive partition. Native partitions for OS X and macOS are able to store metadata for files. When the partition type being used can't store that data, your Mac will write it to additional ._ files (known as Apple Double files) which all other systems (Windows, Dropbox, etc.) will be able to see, and which Dropbox will sync. If you can use a partition type that is native to Mac and that also is accessible by Windows, you likely won't see those files. I just don't know if Windows can read the Mac partition types.
If I uninstall everything and disable WSL and Virtualisation and so this all over again in the right order, will this aleviate the issue or will I still need to change the bios setting which I have no access to.
Now, you need to ensure that virtualisation is enabled from the macOS side. Open up system settings then go to Start Up disk. Now just looking at the current setting may show that your windows partition is set as the start up disk. You need to explicitly go in and set it to windows, so unlock the padlock and click on your windows partition. The act of doing so activates other settings including enabling virtualisation. When I first encountered this issue, I could already see that my windows partition was visibile in the list of disks to selected as the startup disk and I probably thought no more of it, not realising you have to set it to windows explicitly.
After I did this then rebooted into windows, then open "Programs and Features" (run appwiz.cpl), then select "Turn windows features on or off", look at the options and ensure that "Hyper V" is not a disabled greyed out option. Select "Hyper V", then enable "Windows subsystem for linux". You should now be able to proceed with WSL2 without seeing errors pertaining to virtualisation not being enabled.
in my case, after enable virtualization in BIOS (F2 button push during starting the computer) and turn on windows subsystem linux in Window Feature, it still doesn't help and has the error 0x80370102. I reopen the Window Feature again, and check in the Virtual Machine Platform. then the error is fixed and the ubuntu is installed successfully in wsl environment in my computer.enter image description here
It's worth noting that some of the newer Macs from late 2020 onwards have Apple silicon processors, which will no longer support Boot Camp. In this case, virtualization software like Parallels will be necessary to install Windows 10 instead.
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.
Ok, don't like doing this but during next boot up to Windows turn the power off. This should be done while Windows splash screen is still showing . The next time you boot to windows it should detect that it didnt successfully load and give you the advanced options. Then select safe mode with command prompt.
Also, when I go into Safe Mode there's three logins - one is my name (Joel) and when I put my old password into it it goes to the systems diagnostics (which take a while). Do you think I should be using one of the other logins (one is something like "userup . . ."; I don't recall the other). Since it goes directly into the System diagnostics with my name and old password, I assumed that this is the correct log on to use.
The bootcamp will be delivered live by Microsoft speakers in Americas/EMEA region on November 7th and in Americas/Asia region on November 9th. Partner individuals attending this event will have the opportunity to interact with Microsoft subject matter experts, through a moderated live Q& A chat.
Boot Camp is currently not available on Apple silicon Macs.[6] Via virtualization, it is possible to run ARM-based Windows 10 and 11 (only Windows Insider builds, as they are the only publicly available ARM builds of Windows) through the QEMU emulator[7] and Parallels Desktop virtualization software, which also allows Linux.[8]
The software you'll use to run Windows 10 on your Mac is Boot Camp Assistant, which comes factory-installed on your Mac. Boot Camp Assistant is made specifically for installing Windows operating systems on your computer, and fortunately the setup process is pretty straightforward.