How Do I Make The Bootcamp Partition Work For Installing Windows 10 On Mac 2011 Osx 10.6.810/12/2019
I needed more space on the Windows side so I decided to use Disk utility on the Macbook to shrink the size of the Mac partition, and use the spare space to make a third partition in exfat format. Because modifying the core Mac partition modifies the MBR (Master boot record), and removes Bootcamp from the startup menu.
I have a Mac Mini Early 2009. I'm on El Capitan. According to apple's compatibility table, Windows XP is supported in Boot camp, provided you use your original OSX DVDs to locate the drivers. However, it would appear that the only option offered in boot camp assistant is to install Windows 7. My assumption is that Windows XP can only be installed via boot camp if I have a much older OSX version installed, 10.6.
Or, if by chance the boot camp assistant from 10.6 (3.x) can be installed in El Capitan. The documentation is misleading as it does not specify the starting point I need to be at to install Windows XP via bootcamp, only that I need the original OSX DVD to get started. The XP installation DVD has to contain Service Pack 2. This has to appear on the label in order to successfully install. The Boot Camp Assistant is not required to install ANY version of Windows on ANY Mac. This application is not Boot Camp.
It is just an Assistant. The Boot Camp Support Software is on your original DVD and probably the Snow Leopard installation DVD. A word of warning. You may find it difficult to download any updates from Microsoft via Windows Update. You will probably have to search the Web for Service Pack 3, then download and manually install. – Jan 17 '16 at 20:07.
I will try to answer your question as best that I can. It is a question of timing. By 2009, Apple was shipping Macs with firmware or offered firmware upgrades that allowed Windows to be installed in BIOS/MBR mode. This firmware is stored in your Mac. The firmware does not change when you upgrade to a new version of OS X.
Therefore, the version of OS X currently installed has nothing to do with whether you can run Windows on your Mac. In fact, it is possible to run Windows on your Mac without any version of OS X installed. To install a particular version of Windows on a Mac, a few timing aspects need to be considered. The Windows installation DVD needs recognize your Macs hardware in order to install the drivers needed to install and boot to Windows. Since Windows XP was released in 2001, one should not expect the DVD (or maybe CD) to contain the drivers for the 2009 Mac models. Granted, to a certain extent, hardware can be designed to operate in a legacy mode in order to install an older operating system.
When the difference is 8 years, this is difficult to do. Also, Microsoft installations allow for newer drivers to be introduced during the installation process, but this was never employed for Windows installations on Macs in 2009. Instead, Microsoft released Windows XP DVDs with Service Packs already installed. These newer DVDs contained the drivers need to allow Windows to install and boot on Macs. Once, Windows was up and running, better drivers could be installed to upgrade existing drivers and support other hardware such as the camera and sound. These drivers were part of a package referred to as 'The Boot Camp Support Software'. This software also provided a way to boot back to OSX and a utility to update Apple software such as iTunes.
When 'The Boot Camp Support Software' installs, the Windows partition is renamed BOOTCAMP. For this reason, it has become customary to refer to the Windows installation on a Mac as Boot Camp. In fact, you can rename the partition to anything after installing 'The Boot Camp Support Software'. Apple's web site says you can install Windows XP on your Mac.
Whether you need SP2 or SP3 included on the DVD is just a matter of timing. I do not have an answer.
SP2 was released in 2004 and SP3 can out in 2008. Since SP3 was the last offered for XP, such a DVD should work for you. Although your question did not ask about installing a newer version of Windows, I will include my thoughts anyway.
Generally, Microsoft does not require new drivers for each release of Windows. For example, when upgrading Windows, the newer version just adopts the drivers from the previous version. Also, Microsoft may offer new drivers though Windows Update. Windows 10 appears to have he ability to connect to the internet and download drivers during the installation process. Apple's web site reports your Mac can only run 32 bit XP, Vista and Windows 7. This probably is not true.
You have a 2.0 GHZ Core 2 Duo 2.0 processor. I am writing this answer on a 2007 iMac with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. The operating systems is Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. Apple is not entirely wrong. The Boot Camp Assistant will not let you install the newer Windows operating systems, but you don't have to use the Boot Camp Assistant. I guess your complaint is the Boot Camp Assistant version that comes with El Captain OS X 10.11 will not let you install the older XP operating system.
Again, the Boot Camp Assistant is just an assistant used to make windows easier to install. It does not have to be used. You can install Windows XP along with OS X El Capitan using a swap disk trick. You will need to have both a Windows XP cd-rom and Windows 7/8/10 DVD, and a USB drive. You will also need the original Mac OS X DVD that came with your Mac Mini to install the Windows XP drivers.
If you don't have the Mac OS X disc that came with your Mac Mini, you can download the drivers from the Apple site. First insert the Windows 7 DVD, and a blank USB Thumb Drive into your Mac Mini. Then launch the Boot Camp Assistant.
Continue to proceed with Boot Camp and allow it to download the software and also selecting the size for your partition. When the Boot Camp Assistant is finished with partitioning the hard drive, it will reboot; when it does, immediately hold down the 'OPTION' key. When the Mac Mini reboots, you will be taken to a screen where you can decide what to boot to. At this point, eject the Windows 7/8/10 DVD, and insert the Windows XP cd-rom.
Wait a few seconds and the cd-rom will appear on the screen. Select it and press 'Enter' to boot to it. From here, you will install Windows XP as normal, ensure that when you go to select the drive to install, select the drive labeled as BOOTCAMP. Once you have selected the BOOTCAMP partition, you can do a quick format to NTFS.
Do not try to re-partition or delete the partition. Just go through the rest of the installation process as normal. Once Windows XP is installed, you will need to insert the Mac Mini's Mac OS X Install DVD that came with your Mac Mini to install the Windows XP Drivers. Once that is complete, you will need to update the 'Boot Camp Control Panel' utility on Windows XP by launching the 'Apple Software Update' program found on the Start menu.
Continue to run the update, until it no longer finds updates for the 'Boot Camp Control Panel' utility and the 'Apple Software Update'. To boot back to your OS X, you can either reboot the Mac Mini and hold the 'Option' key to select your OS X partition, or you can launch the 'Boot Camp Control Panel' from the task bar, and on the 'Startup Disk' tab, select 'Mac OS X on disk 1' and click 'Restart'. If you do not see 'Mac OS X' listed as a startup system, ensure that you have updated the Boot Camp Control Panel as described in the previous step.
Hi Everybody, I recently had to install Windows 10 onto my MacBook and because there have been some changes to the way Windows 10 installer works, if you get a new copy of Windows 10 as I did, you may not be able to install it using the Boot Camp Assistant, so i had a week of fun and games while trying to sort it out. To save you all that hassle, I thought I'd put together a rough guide on how to get the job done without using the Boot Camp Assistant. Firstly this post would not have been possible without the help of many people but I’d like to personally thank Fotis & Rod as without their help, I would have never have been able to get this done. Links to their articles from which I borrowed heavily are at the bottom and please check these guys out. Now let’s get to it. What You Will Need An 8 GB or larger USB stick A copy of the Windows 10 ISO A valid Windows 10 license A downloaded copy of unetbootin - Downloading Boot Camp Drivers Start Boot Camp Assistant Select Action / Download Windows Support Software Choose your Downloads directory, enter your password and then click Save This will be the only step that we will use Boot Camp Assistant for. Creating a Bootable USB Windows 10 Installer Formatting Your USB Stick Attach your USB stick and start Disk Utility, select your USB drive in the left panel under External, click Erase and set the options as follows (exactly) and click Erase: Name: FAT32 Format: MS-DOS (FAT) Scheme: Master Boot Record Turning Your USB Stick into a Windows Installer Open unetbootin, enter your password, set the options as follows and click OK: Diskimage: checked, set to ISO and browse to your Windows 10 ISO Type: USB Drive Drive: Your USB drive N.B.
Make sure you only have one USB drive plugged in as that way you can’t select the wrong one! Then you can rename the USB Drive if you want and thereafter, copy the WindowsSupport in your Downloads directory to the Windows 10 USB stick so it’s easy to get to after our installation. Partitioning Your Drive In Disk Utility, select your internal hard drive on the left panel, and click on Partition.
Click the + button and create a new partition of your desired size for your Windows installation (give it at least 50GB to make sure you have enough room to work with and name it as you like. Make sure that the Format is set to MS-DOS (FAT) and click on Apply. Ensuring that a Hybrid MBR is not used This is where things get tricky.
Once you add a FAT32 partition with either Boot Camp Assistant or Disk Utility, your disk is converted into a hybrid GPT / MBR disk which is actually not supported by newer versions of Windows hence the problems I was having with a new purchase of Windows 10 and lots of people will be in the same situation. In this step, we revert this additional change made by Disk Utility by switching back to a pure GPT partition table. 1 - Download the latest version of GPT fdisk fromby browsing to the version, then gdisk-binaries and clicking the file with the.pkg extension (e.g. 2 - Install GPT fdisk by running the installer you downloaded 3 - Open a Terminal and check the state of your MBR using the command ‘sudo gdisk /dev/disk0’ and if your MBR partition is set to hybrid, please continue with the instructions below otherwise if it is set to protective.
Simply type q and hit return to exit GPT fdisk 4 - Type p to view the existing partition table and verify you’re working on the correct disk 5 - Type x to enter the expert menu 6 - Type n to create a fresh protective MBR 7 - Type w to save your changes and confirm the change when asked 8 - Type q to exit GPT fdisk Issues with El Capitan and macOS Sierra Both these versions of OSX use System Integrity Protection to protect your system and as such the instructions above will not work, so you’ll have to turn this off before you retry using GPT Disk. If you’re not quite sure about this, be cautious and don’t do it! Follow these steps to disable SIP: 1 - Restart your Mac.
2 - Before OS X starts up, hold down Command-R and keep it held down until you see an Apple icon and a progress bar. This boots you into Recovery. 3 - From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
4 - At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil disable 5 - Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled. 6 - From the menu, select Restart. You can re-enable SIP by following the above steps, but using csrutil enable instead and I STRONGLY suggest you do so once Windows has been installed. Installing Windows Disconnecting All Devices From USB Ports This step is critical as I have had rather serious problems during Windows installation when certain external drives are connected. Unplug everything from your Mac except your keyboard (if wired) and your bootable Windows USB stick (which we prepared earlier). Booting From the USB Stick Ensure that the USB stick containing the Windows installer is inserted and then restart your Mac while holding down the option (alt) key.
You should now be presented with a list of bootable drives. Select the USB drive (usually titled “EFI Boot”) to begin installing Windows.
Correcting Your Windows Hard Disk Partition When you are asked Where do you want to install Windows?, select the Windows partition created earlier and click Delete. Next, select the chunk of Unallocated Space and click on New to create a proper Windows NTFS partition. I could be wrong but I suspect OSX can only create FAT systems hence this step. Completing the Installation Allow the installer to complete and boot into Windows. Installing Boot Camp Support Software Once Windows is up and running, install the Boot Camp Support software running WindowsSupport/BootCamp/Setup.exe on your USB stick.
Note: The installer takes a little while to show up, so please be patient. And that’s it! Again many thanks to the following:- Fotis - Rod Smith.
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