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• problem about the bootcamp assistant

  guys good day. I'm new to the community and I want to ask about my iMac bootcamp Assistant mid-2009. I want to install windows 7 on my mac but there is a problem in my training camp. The list in the menu option have only 2 checkbox. can you help me how to solve my problem.

  I improve my software in the last update but the bootcamp, still no change.  The 2nd box say install or remove windows cannot check.

  brysky08

  You should give this Apple Support article a read-through, install Windows using Boot Camp - Apple Support

• I want to delete my score but my bootcamp assistant does not work

  Hello

  I have a desktop mac 2011 mid running on El captain. I have partitioned my Mac several years ago and now want to get rid of him, that I no longer use it. Unfortunately when I try to open the Bootcamp assistant, it gives just the message "This Mac doesn't support Boot Camp" and there is no other Wizard Bootcamp on my mac. I have nothing that I want to save on my windows disk and you want just the memory space of the return. I would be grateful for any help or suggestion that the community has.

  Kind regards

  Risen121

  Please run

  Reset the management system (SCM) controller on your Mac - Apple Support

  How to reset the NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

  and try again Deputy BC.

• Software download of window support option are not not in the bootcamp assistant

  I am trying to re-download the software window, but the bootcamp assistant have only the possibility to restore the partition into one instead of three options as usual (see photo below). Where should I look for the support of window software then? Any difficulty? Helpppppppp

  

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• USB Disk is not an option in the Bootcamp Assistant

  I have this problem and I was given the macbook I use I know the former owner said the cd drive is bad and would use a key USB is there a way for it to work, I tried to manipulate the info.plist file, but when I try to put in the content folder of the boot camp assistant it shows locked is there some admin great apple that I need or the previous owner did affect something more? Model of Mac is end of 2011 with the captain El OSX top and trying to install Windows 7 on it.

  In allow Bootcamp to install USB for OSX 10.9 * ŒUVRES *, find the codesign order. The command must be

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• ERRO no Windows 10 BootCamp Assistant

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  NAO finishes an instalacao back drivers e nao works teclado iluminado, trackpad, etc..

  

  Please see Bootcamp 6.0 driver install interrupted .

• J013TX - HP support Assistant stuck

  Hi, I recently used the HP Support Assistant to download an update of the BIOS for my J013TX. The update downloaded successfully (AFAIK), but sacrificed HP Support Assistant asks for a restart. The machine has been rebooted about 20 times, I think it's stuck.

  Please indicate how it is possible to clear this update - I don't mind simply remove the update of the BIOS so I am able to receive further updates.

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  The complete BIOS update?

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• Bootcamp is stuck to the partitioning

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  If someone is able to help me on teamviewer which would be too large.

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  Of Osama Abassi

  

  Hello Cloudeez,

  Thank you for using communities of Apple Support.

  I see that your computer seems to be suspended when you partition your hard drive for the training camp.

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  Then you should be able to go through spring training set up again.

  Best regards.

• No option to download the software from windows to Bootcamp Assistant support

  Hi guys,.

  IM on a MacBook Pro (retina, 13-inch, early 2015), I just upgraded Windows 8.1 for Windows 10 and my Bluetooth stopped working.

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• Black screen after restart of the Bootcamp Assistant

  Hello

  I understand that 10 Windows is not supported with the MBP Late 2011 officially by Apple, I have it working earlier today and had no problems at all. I tried to add another partition for windows side so that I would be able to install Deep Freeze on Windows have a clean install of Windows every time that I boot in there and have all my programs and files on what would have been called "Local D.

  I deleted the Windows partition and I deleted the first player who had only 200 MB normally created from windows which I believe that holds the MBR for the old Windows Installer install. I tried to create 2 different partitions in disk utility and that the load bootcamp. He said well obviously not, because the reader must be around to do this, I did the road together again, put my Windows 10 disc in and let bootcamp.

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  And for those wondering, no I do not get a flashing cursor in the upper left corner of my screen. Its completely black.

  PerfectStory wrote:

  I deleted the Windows partition and I deleted the first player who had only 200 MB normally created from windows which I believe that holds the MBR for the old Windows Installer install.

  You have deleted the EFI Partition from Mac. Not a very good idea. She does not hold the MBR. Your Mac uses a hybrid MBR. The MBR and the boot for Windows Manager are two separate entities.

  I tried to create 2 different partitions in disk utility and that the load bootcamp. He said well obviously not, because the reader must be around to do this, I did the road together again, put my Windows 10 disc in and let bootcamp.

  Disk utility is now considered an invalid drive due to a missing EFI partition. How did you again the reader "XV"? If you start from W10 in the optical drive, it is no Bootcamp involved more.

  I wanted the reader to have 51 GB of bootcamp, that I would use 300 GB for the 'Local D' drive and the rest of the SSD 1 TB drive, I got OS X El Capitan. If at this point, I have X amount of GB to OS X and 51 GB will be used so that the wizard has done for me, once the wizard bootcamp is made, it will restart OS X and brings me to a gray screen. Normally, it's just going to continue in the installation of Windows, but it takes me to a black screen and does nothing else. Is this by far where can I fix? I even tried simply to launch the installation of Windows Installer directly from the drive itself without going through installation of bootcamp by holding ALT and selecting the drive and he finally took to the installation without any problem and now it goes to a black screen and does not change even.

  And for those wondering, no I do not get a flashing cursor in the upper left corner of my screen. Its completely black.

  Please after the release of the following Terminal commands.

  diskutil list

  Cs diskutil list

  sudo TPG - vv - r see the/dev/disk0

  sudo fdisk/dev/disk0

  The "sudo" commands will prompt to enter your password, and there do not appear to come back. You can also see caution against improper use 'sudo' and the potential loss of data due to an "abuse" of the order.

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• Migration Assistant stuck at 3 Minutes from the end

  Hello

  I'm using Fusion v6.0.1 and migrate my Windows on my Mac 8 PC.  It runs for several days, and then he gets to the last step and simply says "Prepare your virtual machine..." "with the time remaining: about 3 minutes (99%).  I did this 3 times now with the same results and never finished.

  If anyone else has had this problem or is there a way to solve this?

  Thank you.

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• Wizard BootCamp 6.0.1 running on El Capitan 10.11.5 installs single partition BootCamp on the disc Fusion consisting of 128 SSD part G SSD and 3 TB of HARD drive on an iMac (retina 5K, 27 inches, end of 2014), but not the part of the HARD drive?

  How is it assistant BootCamp 6.0.1 running on El Capitan 10.11.5 installs single partition BootCamp on the disc Fusion consisting of 128 SSD part G SSD and 3 TB of HARD drive on an iMac (retina 5K, 27 inches, end of 2014), but not the part of the HARD drive?

  This has two questions:

  1 capacity of SSDS faster for Fusion drive has been reduced. Therefore less effective for the reader of the merger. For example if I need to create a partition of 80G for my windows bootcamp partition, only 48 G will be left in the drive of the merger.

  2. ability of the bootcamp windows partition becomes very limited, cannot be greater than 120 G.

  3. even when I try to fuse out of the drive of fusion in the 128 G SSD and 3 TB of HARD disk, and then run the BootCamp assistant to create the bootcamp partition start from scratch to reinstall El Capitan only on the HARD drive (without drive Fusion), it won't let me do anything, it just shows an error that says something like "a person has created additional partitions on this drive please select. another disc. But there is nothing else to choose.

  Before my (5 K, 27 inches, end of 2014 retina) to El Capitan Yosemite, I was able to use the previous version of the wizard BootCamp 5.x to create the partition, bootcamp on the drive of the merger. And it will be divided in the fuser unit in two and insert the Bootcamp partition (with the size I chose, which can go up to 1 TB) between two partitions of MAC OSX.

  The disk partitions resulting from it, will be the partition MAC OS x on the SSD, the partition MAC OS x on the HARD drive partition #1, partition MAC OS x on the HARD drive partition #3.

  Then there is the BootCamp partition on the HARD drive partition #2.

  Is there a way to get what I need?

  That is what has been described in this notice of two canoes?

  Installation of Windows on a Boot Camp partition on a drive of TB Fusion 3

  n-on-a-3-TB-fusion-drive http://twocanoes.com/Winclone/support/installing-Windows-on-a-Boot-Camp-partitio

  Thank you.

  After having worked on those weeks, I realized that I need very painfully (by first going back to Yosemite and bootcamp 5 to escape all the limitations of El Capitan and BootCamp 6) I want to share here. Someone at - it other smarter solutions welcome.

  Note these steps and mentioned drivers only work for my version of iMAC, retina 5K late 2014. If you have other material, please search on the web to see which driver will work first. And all of these steps are destructive and assumed that you first take backup. It is only shared for interest only. Readers will have to bear your own risk.

  A. take backup

  1. take a backup completes my iMac Fusion Drive using Time Machine. Then restart with a Yosemite USB installation and select Terminal from the menu on the top bar.

  B. fuse out of the merger in two physical disks drive: SSD + HDD

  1. in the terminal, type the commands in show what the logical volume group ID and the ID of the logical Volume of the disc fusion)

  Cs diskutil list

  2. in the terminal, type commands for the fuse of the fuser unit and separate them to an SSD and a HARD drive.  Note: All data will be destroyed in the drive of the merger. There are many articles in this community on how this could be done,

  diskutil cs deleteVolume Logical Volume ID

  CS diskutil remove logical Volume Group ID

  This should finish within 30 minutes. If you have taken more time, this means that your reader of fusion has been altered somehow.

  I hit this issue too.  To use this command to remove the fusion drive hung up, and I need to do the hard to scramble a few sections of data in the hard disk partition table using the controls to tell the OSX this hard drive is a new without partitions:

  Cat >/dev/random /dev/disk0 (where/dev/disk0 is the SSD)

  and repeat for disk1/dev/disk1 which is the HARD drive in my case).

  This command will not return anything, but expect to press Ctrl-Z to end after 1 minute.

  2 create independent partitions (non-fusionend) for the installation of OSX.

  Borne Terminal output, and select disk utility, in disk utility, select the drive to HARD disk (and not on the partition), you will see the error message and you will be asked if you want to fix the fuser unit, click on ignore. Then wipe the HARD drive to create a single 'extended OSX journaled"named"HARD drive".

  3. Repeat step 2, and then erase the SSD drive to create a single 'extended OSX journaled"named"SSD ".

  C. install on the HARD disk as drive didier autonomous not fusion.

  1. go to Yosemite install screen and proceed with the installation of a clean copy of Yosemite to the iMAC. then connect you.

  D. use BootCamp Yosemite f5 to install windows.

  1. launch Yosemite bootcamp.

  2. check the two checkboxes for creating the USB drive to install windows 7 or a later version, and to download the windows supports the Apple software.  Do not click on the last box to install or remove windows pie creating real bootcamp partition again.

  3. it may take several hours to complete this function of your internet b/w and also performance of your USB drive.

  4. If you install Windows 7 (like me), then the downloaded drivers will not work for you, this will cause the issue of the device driver appleDSS.sys does not like this driver and others are too recent for windows 7 to use.  Also, your keyboard and mouse may not work even if you try to plug in a USB external keyboard or a mouse. You need to replace the drivers downloaded by others (the Boot Camp 5.1.5769 drivers that I find in this link: Software Support of Boot Camp 5.1.5769.) (Note: this driver is material specific only works for my iMAC model).  Once you have downloaded it, copy the two files in the root directory of the USB installation to replace the original ones. It's specific and material available for download somewhere on the Apple Site.

  -From the Finder, delete the $WinPE$ and the Boot Camp of the FLASH PLAYER files.

  -Expand the old drivers for Boot Camp 5.1.5769 (two records and another file) on your desktop.

  -Copy the $WinPE$ and records of Boot Camp in the FLASH PLAYER.

  5. open Boot Camp Assistant again and only select the third option, install Windows 7.

  It will show you the screen to select what installation disk, select HARD drive.

  Then drag the slide bar to select the size of the Bootcamp partition for windows you want, knowing that there is a restriction for windows installed using training camp on a MAC that the last byte of the BootCamp partition must reside in the first byte of the 2.2 T of each physical hard drive.

  For my case, I need only 500G for bootcamp and leaving behind 1.7 to for my MAC OSX partition immediately after the bootcamp partition and an another 0.8 T MAC OSX partition after him. 1.7 TB and the partition of MAC OS x 0.8 TB well exploited in the meantime bootcamp partition, will be merged into a fusion drive by Bootcamp. Thus, you will end up with total 2.5 TB of disk space in a logical drive - fuser.

  Go to this link for more details on this subject: n-on-a-3-tb-fusion-drive http://twocanoes.com/winclone/support/installing-windows-on-a-boot-camp-partitio

  6. continue the process to partition the hard drive, then it will restart automatically in windows installation mode, install windows.

  7. once the installation is complete, check that windows is functioning correctly.

  E. Si you want to upgrade to windows 10 Windows 7.

  1 if you plan to upgrade to windows 10, you'll find that the windows IE v.8 7 is no longer works and had many problems to load the page.  Then when you try to download the latest version of Internet Explorer, you get an error that you need at least windows 7 SP1 to support the last IE.  Life is too complicated, just download the google Chrome browser, then search for download windows 10 and then run the Microsoft valuation tool to upgrade.

  2 but before upgrade you, unplug all your MAC USB drives, otherwise, you will find that, after having spent an hour downloading the windows 10 software, the upgrade will fail with the error "/ dynamicupdate...» ». It is an inexplicable mistake that no one seems to understand why. There are articles with proven results that the removal of all USB drives before running the windows 10 upgrade tool will correct this problem.

  F. reinstall OSX El Capitan

  Once your target windows system (if windows 7, windows 8 or windows 10) works very well.  You can continue to create again your Fusion drive and reinstall OSX El Capitan.

  1. Insert the install of OSX Yosemite rear USB to the iMAC, and then select Restart Windows, or stop, and then turn the MAC once again.

  2. When you hear the ringing tone, press on and hold down the option key for 10 seconds. Then you release.

  3. on the selection screen, select start Yosemite OSX install drive.

  4. after starting, do not proceed to install OSX El Capitan again. But select Terminal from the menu bar.

  5. in the terminal, type the command 'diskutil list cs' and you should see nothing to prove that there are no existing fusion drive yet.

  6 type the 'diskutil list' command to list all disks and partitions.

  The SSD has two partitions, the/dev/disk0s1 of EFI (209 MB) partition and the other/dev/disk0s2 of OSX partition we created in step B above, called SSD around 121 G.

  The HARD drive has two partitions, the/dev/disk1s1 of EFI (209 MB) partition and the other/dev/disk1s2 of OSX partition we created in step B above, called SSD.

  G. delete the logical storage of nucleus on the HARD disk drive and it refuses with the DSS to form a merger with faster performance disc

  1. Insert the install of OSX El Capitan rear USB to the iMAC, and then select Restart Windows, or stop, and then turn the MAC once again.

  2. When you hear the ringing tone, press on and hold down the option key for 10 seconds. Then you release.

  3. on the selection screen, select start Yosemite OSX install drive.

  4. after starting, do not proceed to install OSX El Capitan again. But select Terminal from the menu bar.

  5. in the terminal, type orders for (to show what are the logical volume group ID and the ID of the logical Volume of the logical drive). You should see the logical volume to basic storage group created using two partitions on the hard drive, 1.7 TB and TB 0.8 created when we run the Yosemite Bootcamp to install windows.

  Cs diskutil list

  6. in the terminal, type commands to delete logical drives from basic storage.  Note: All data will be destroyed in the logical drive.

  diskutil cs deleteVolume Logical Volume ID

  CS diskutil remove logical Volume Group ID

  7. tap "diskutil list" command lists all the resulting partitions. You should see that the HARD drive has the following partitions.

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 121,3 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_HFS GB SSD 121.0 disk0s2

  / dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * 3.0 to disk1

  1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

  2: Apple_HFS 1.7 Untitled TB disk1s2

  3: disk1s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

  4: Microsoft database BOOTCAMP 503.0 GB disk1s4

  5: Apple_HFS 801,4 Untitled GB disk1s5

  8 type the following commands to create the logical volumes group, named "myLVG" (or the name) of fuser using the usable for OSX to the SSD and HDD partitions.

  diskutil cs to create "myLVG" disk0s2 disk1s2 disk1s5

  Note: Mark the group id of logical volume shown in the results.

  In my case, I want to book the last partition as standalone partition disk1s5 no-fusionend, so I can use it to raise the back, or format it in FAT32 to allow the exchange of data between the MAC and boot camp.

  So, I do not understand this last partition in the drive of the merger. in my case, the command that I used is: diskutil cs to create "myLVG" disk0s2 disk1s2

  9 create logical volumes named "Macintosh HD" (or you call it) on the logical volume group we just created for the reader of the merger.

  diskutil createvolume logical volume group ID jhfs cs + 'Macintosh HD' 100%

  10 command "diskutil cs type list" to check the resulting fusion drive created.

  CoreStorage groups of logical volumes (1 found)

  |

  + Logical Volume - Group F53C7A25-C2F3-4997-91E9-2E6B6BAB2E0E

  =========================================================

  Name: LVG

  Status: online

  Dimensions: 1815635525632 B (1.8 to)

  Free space: 90112 B (90.1 KB)

  |

  +-Physical volume E176873C-7C80-4759-8110-BA7307E0C4B3

  |   ----------------------------------------------------

  |   Index: 0

  |   Disc: disk0s2

  |   Status: online

  |   Dimensions: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

  |

  +-Physical volume 6535AC3C-DCF8-453F-AD47-98905538386E

  |   ----------------------------------------------------

  |   Index: 1

  |   Disc: disk1s2

  |   Status: online

  |   Dimensions: 1694646673408 B (1.7 to)

  |

  +--> Logical volume family F3D15F87-FB84-4B43-B2F2-E9EACC7C42D9

  ----------------------------------------------------------

  Encryption type: no

  |

  +--> Logical volume 0D807F6E-FB7C-418F-AAF4-EF3EA3525D10

  ---------------------------------------------------

  Disc: disk2

  Status: online

  Size (Total): 1809780178944 B (1.8 to)

  Reversible: no

  Name: Macintosh HD

  Volume name: Macintosh HD

  Content indicator: Apple_HFS

  LVG Type: Fusion, sparse

  11 exit the terminal, go back to OSX El Capitan install screen and select the name of the fuser unit 'Macintosh HD' proceed to begin the installation of the os x for installation.

  12. There will be a step in the installation ask you if you want to configure as a new computer, or restore from a time machine previous backup. Make your own choices it accordingly.

  13 once OSX El Capitan has been installed and you have finished restoring the data and custom configurations, you can enter the application of preferences to check if you see the icon of the "Startup" disk", and if you choose Startup BootCamp in the next reboot, you should be able to boot up to Windows without pressing and holding the button option when reboot and choose to start windows manually. Also, in windows, you should be able to click on the bootcamp Control Panel and select for a startup to OSX on the next reboot.

  14. one thing to be aware, if you install bootcamp in this way, the boot camp and the GUI utility disk in OSX El Capitan will not be able to adjust your settings. This means, if you need to touch anything or to readjust the size of the partition, you will need to do it again in step A. Alternatively, some how to get started with installing Mac OSX Yosemite USB, then adjust the partitions using similar commands shown in this article or other articles in this community.

  15. yet once please take personal responsibility on damage if you follow the instructions in this article.

• The Windows Setup program does not open. Stuck with black screen.

  Hi all

  I'm trying to install windows 7 from an iso file using Bootcamp assistant, Version 6.0.1 but unfortunately just windows installer does not open so I'm stuck with this black screen. I left my sit MacBookPro autour with this black screen during more than half an hour and after awhile, it gets really hot so I interrupted the "process."

  I have reset the NVRAM (command + alt + p + r) which did nothing.

  I followed the instructions of bootcamp. I downloaded the correct drivers for my model of mac pro book, I created a bootable and partitioned my drive.

  The forum has a lot of "black screen problems" but none of their solutions worked for me.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you

  1. leave BCA creates the installer from USB, but not to partition your drive.

  2. download the correct drivers to install Windows 7 and previous versions on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support and replace $WinPEDriver$, AutoUnattend.xml, and the entire folder on the drive flash USB2 Bootcamp.

  3. run BCA, connect the USB cable and click only the Windows Installer and test if the Setup program starts.

• Install hard drive does not display complete space after failure bootcamp

  If this problem is shallow, but I did a ton of research, and I'm stuck.

  I tried to install Windows 10 with the BootCamp assistant and there was a mistake and restarted my MBP (mid-2015, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, 1 TB SSD). Upon restart, the partition of windows seems to be there, but when I tried to start Windows (restart now option key), I found myself with only one option, which was to start in Mac OS X. Fine. So I started in Mac and went to the wizard bootcamp again and this time, I had the option to remove windows, so I did, which was good, because I was going to just to try new BootCamp assistant...

  -BUT (here's the point of this post)-

  After the deleted bootcamp windows partition Wizard, my Mac partition was left on its reduced size, which is 901,34 Go (before "assistant" training camp, I got 999,35 GB, it's a 1 TB drive).

  I did a lot of things to try to remedy this situation, but nothing seems to work:

  -J' resized the partition in disk utility (which continued to give me errors, until I turned off FileVault), so now my SSD shows only a single partition to 1 TB in size.

  -J' tried to run first aid on both the disk (SSD Apple) AND partition (Sean HD), but which shows all go well.

  -I went through the Terminal to run the/dev/disk0 repairdisk diskutil command and it seems that the partition plan seems to be OK.

  I would avoid using testdisk, because I think I would mess something up, but if I have the right direction, I could predict the future.

  I DON'T want to format the drive and start over, because I would be really sad to have to reinstall/remake ~ 800 GB of things again (I am a music producer). And, Yes, I backed everything up, but again everything is too tedious (do once was quite tedious as it may be).

  

  You notice you have a recovery of 98 GB of HD, which is usually about 650 MB? What were the exact steps you have taken to address the issue that you have after that BC did not work correctly? Did merge partitions incorrectly?