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In a Windows Installer Disk selector screen, I chose to install Windows to that NTFS partition created earlier. In a boot options screen, I selected DVD "Windows" (Do not choose EFI boot.). Put my fresh Win10 DVD to an optical drive and rebooted, while holding Option key (alt).Ħ. Re-formatted this new partition to NTFS, using a third-party software.
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Created a new partition for Windows 10 in a Disk Utility (I assigned 100 GB, formatted to FAT).Ĥ. Merged a Boot Camp-created partition back to a single MacOS partition (did that via Boot Camp).ģ. Saved the latest Windows drivers to a USB stick via Boot Camp.Ģ. To install Windows 10 without any of these problems, I did the following:Ġ. The selected disk is of GPT partition style" etc.). However, due to Boot Camp's tricky partitioning of a hard drive, legacy mode will not allow Windows installation to that partition (the infamous message "Windows cannot be installed.
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However, EFI boot mode exposes devices in a different way, which effectively leads to audio not working.īasically, the solution is to use a legacy MBR boot mode, when installing Windows. Boot Camp assumes it can do just fine with this, when creating a USB installer and partitioning the hard drive. This issue boils down to a poor EFI support on older MacBooks. I have a MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2012), 500 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM. Now I am writing this under my Windows 10 account, while listening to Aristocrats Radio =) Ok, I understand I may be a bit late to the party, but I had just solved the same problem with Windows 10.