Q: Yosemite/Boot Camp installation hangs.
I had previously set up Windows with Boot Camp before moving to Yosemite and all seemed to work well.
When I no longer needed Windows I deleted it.
I am now trying to reinstall Windows ( I need to somehow update the firmware on my self-installed Crucial SSD, which apparently I cannot do under OS X) but cannot get to the actual Windows install stage of the process. The machine seems reluctant to boot to Windows for the set up.
Boot Camp successfully creates the Boot Camp partition and the USB memory stick with the Windows ISO and support files.
At this point, a message box pops up asking if I want to continue or abort, but before I can do anything the system shuts down and restarts.
On restart, there is no WiFi connection, but otherwise all seems to be OS X normal. There is no pending Windows installation, and on starting Boot Camp all I am able to do is remove the Windows partition.
I tried a reinstall of Yosemite which seemed to go well, but the problem remains.
A very small version of the above mentioned message box seems to remain in the system and appears at certain points. That just confuses me!
The system is relatively new and shouldn't have and oddball utilities or drivers so I'm a little baffled.
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Posted on Jan 11, 2015 3:43 AM
I decided to start from scratch so reformatted and reinstalled Yosemite from scratch.
That cleared the problem as reported.
I now have a different problem which I hope I can resolve.
Thanks for your help.
Posted on Jan 12, 2015 1:19 AM
