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Q: why in bootcamp select task page , install windows checkbox is not active ?

I want to install win8.1 on my mac book pro but in the select task window install win 7 or later version is not active and only download driver is active which i have done before , what should i do ?

 

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Posted on Feb 20, 2015 3:44 AM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 20, 2015 4:57 AM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 4:57 AM in response to majid khalili

    Was Bootcamp Info.plist modified?

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 5:33 AM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 20, 2015 5:33 AM in response to Loner T

    no i can't modify that cause it make bootcamp to crash when i add "MBP62" to "PreUSBBootSupportedModels"

    i have MacBookPro6,2 with MBP61.0057.B0F as a boot rom version

     

    this is my info.plist :

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

    <plist version="1.0">

    <dict>

      <key>32BitSupportedModels</key>

      <array>

      <string>MacBook7,1</string>

      <string>MacBookAir5,2</string>

      <string>MacBookPro10,1</string>

      <string>MacPro5,1</string>

      <string>Macmini5,3</string>

      <string>iMac12,2</string>

      </array>

      <key>BuildMachineOSBuild</key>

      <string>13D21</string>

      <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

      <string>English</string>

      <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>

      <string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>

      <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

      <string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>

      <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>

      <string>Boot Camp Assistant 5.1.2, Copyright © 2014 Apple Inc. All rights reserved</string>

      <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>

      <string>DA</string>

      <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

      <string>com.apple.bootcampassistant</string>

      <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

      <string>6.0</string>

      <key>CFBundleName</key>

      <string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>

      <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

      <string>APPL</string>

      <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

      <string>5.1.2</string>

      <key>CFBundleSignature</key>

      <string>????</string>

      <key>CFBundleVersion</key>

      <string>484</string>

      <key>DARequiredROMVersions</key>

      <array>

      <string>IM41.0055.B08</string>

      <string>IM42.0071.B03</string>

      <string>IM51.0090.B03</string>

      <string>IM52.0090.B03</string>

      <string>IM61.0093.B01</string>

      <string>MP11.005C.B04</string>

      <string>MB11.0061.B03</string>

      <string>MBP11.0055.B08</string>

      <string>MBP12.0061.B03</string>

      <string>MM11.0055.B08</string>

      </array>

      <key>DTCompiler</key>

      <string>com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0</string>

      <key>DTPlatformBuild</key>

      <string>5A2053</string>

      <key>DTPlatformVersion</key>

      <string>GM</string>

      <key>DTSDKBuild</key>

      <string>13D21</string>

      <key>DTSDKName</key>

      <string></string>

      <key>DTXcode</key>

      <string>0501</string>

      <key>DTXcodeBuild</key>

      <string>5A2053</string>

      <key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>

      <string>public.app-category.utilities</string>

      <key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>

      <string>10.9.0</string>

      <key>NSMainNibFile</key>

      <string>MainMenu</string>

      <key>NSPrincipalClass</key>

      <string>NSApplication</string>

      <key>PreESDRequiredModels</key>

      <array>

      <string>MacBook7</string>

      <string>MacBookAir5</string>

      <string>MacBookPro10</string>

      <string>MacPro5</string>

      <string>Macmini6</string>

      <string>iMac13</string>

      </array>

      <key>PreUEFIModels</key>

      <array>

      <string>MacBook7</string>

      <string>MacBookAir5</string>

      <string>MacBookPro10</string>

      <string>MacPro5</string>

      <string>Macmini6</string>

      <string>iMac13</string>

      </array>

      <key>PreUSBBootSupportedModels</key>

      <array>

      <string>MacBook7,1</string>

      <string>MacBookAir3,2</string>

      <string>MacBookPro8,3</string>

      <string>MacPro5,1</string>

      <string>Macmini4,1</string>

      <string>iMac12,2</string>

      </array>

      <key>Win7OnlyModels</key>

      <array>

      <string>MacBook7,1</string>

      <string>MacBookAir3,2</string>

      <string>MacBookPro5,5</string>

      <string>MacPro2,1</string>

      <string>Macmini4,1</string>

      <string>iMac10,1</string>

      </array>

    </dict>

    </plist>

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 20, 2015 5:44 AM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 5:44 AM in response to majid khalili

    On the other thread (Create Windows install disk option in Lion Bootcamp?) you are asking about modifying Bootcamp info.plist, which will not help you.

     

    Your Mac may be able to support creating the USB after you modify the Info.plist, but it will not boot from this USB, if you use BCA.

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 7:19 AM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 20, 2015 7:19 AM in response to Loner T

    Loner i didn't get u

    what do u mean ?

    what should i do now ?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 20, 2015 10:56 AM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 10:56 AM in response to majid khalili

    On Macs with built-in Optical drives, the only supported method o installing Windows is to use a physical Windows DVD Installer, and a USB Flash stick (use for BC drivers only). If you change the info.plist, it still does not fix the issue where BCA tells the Mac to boot from the Optical drive and ignores the USB-based Windows installer.

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 12:32 PM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 20, 2015 12:32 PM in response to Loner T

    so what should i do now ? how can i install win 8 on my mac that i can boot with ?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 20, 2015 1:27 PM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:27 PM in response to majid khalili

    Is your Optical drive fully functional?

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 1:27 PM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:27 PM in response to Loner T

    yes

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 1:33 PM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:33 PM in response to majid khalili

    it also shows this message :

    The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

    The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

    i that related to the problem ?

    i have no partition named such as disk0 and those things that i found in searches .

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 20, 2015 1:37 PM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:37 PM in response to majid khalili

    Please post the output of the following Terminal commands. Enter your password for the "sudo" commands, and it will not be echoed back to you.

     

    diskutil list

    diskutil cs list

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 1:43 PM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:43 PM in response to Loner T

    diskutil list

    #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER

      0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB  disk0

      1:                        EFI EFI                    209.7 MB  disk0s1

      2:                  Apple_HFS MAC OS                  124.4 GB  disk0s2

      3:                Apple_Boot Recovery HD            650.0 MB  disk0s3

      4:                  Apple_HFS WIN                    71.2 GB    disk0s4

      5:                  Apple_HFS Entertainment          60.0 GB    disk0s5

      6:                  Apple_HFS WIN8                    40.2 GB    disk0s6

      7:                  Apple_HFS Work                    50.0 GB    disk0s7

      8:                  Apple_HFS WIN 8                  50.2 GB    disk0s8

      9:                  Apple_HFS MAJID                  51.0 GB    disk0s9

      10:                  Apple_HFS Utility                51.5 GB    disk0s10

    diskutil cs list

    No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167

          start      size  index  contents

              0          1        PMBR

              1          1        Pri GPT header

              2        32        Pri GPT table

            34          6      

            40    409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

        409640  242952416      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      243362056    1269544      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      244631600  139007688      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      383639288    262144      

      383901432  117187496      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      501088928    262144      

      501351072  78498752      6  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      579849824    262144      

      580111968  97656248      7  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      677768216    262144      

      678030360  98030000      8  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      776060360    262144      

      776322504  99663408      9  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      875985912    262144      

      876248056  100525072    10  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      976773128          7      

      976773135        32        Sec GPT table

      976773167          1        Sec GPT header

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

    Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]

    Signature: 0xAA55

            Starting      Ending

    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [    start -      size]

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

    1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [        1 -  976773167] <Unknown ID>

    2: 00    0  0  0 -    0  0  0 [        0 -          0] unused    

    3: 00    0  0  0 -    0  0  0 [        0 -          0] unused    

    4: 00    0  0  0 -    0  0  0 [        0 -          0] unused

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 20, 2015 1:49 PM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:49 PM in response to majid khalili

    The current disk cannot be used for Bootcamp on your Mac, without significant work. For Bootcamp to work you should only have GPT1-3 which should be EFI, OSX and Recovery HD. You have 10 GPT partitions. What is WIN and 2 x WIN8?

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Loner T

    in the win partition i have a vmware win7 file and ones of the win 8 partition is new and ready for new winnows to be installed in and the other one is different stuff the name of the partition is not really about the content and its by mistake , ill change it when i am done with this process

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 20, 2015 2:29 PM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 20, 2015 2:29 PM in response to majid khalili

    BCA will not let you partition this drive in its current configuration.

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