majid khalili

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

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  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 20, 2015 11:12 PM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 20, 2015 11:12 PM in response to Loner T

    OK

    what can i do now ?

    is it possible to install a windows to boot with right now or not ?

    should i change the partition ?

    is there any way other than using BCA ?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 21, 2015 9:46 AM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 21, 2015 9:46 AM in response to majid khalili

    Use Virtualization engines like VMware Fusion, Parallels or VirtualBox instead of Bootcamp.

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 21, 2015 11:04 AM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 21, 2015 11:04 AM in response to Loner T

    I booted my laptop with win8 and wanted to install windows but i got an error because of GPT partition , finally i installed it on a vmware , but there should be an easy way for these thing , these are really common and shouldn't be that complicated ,

    thanks for your hints and help during these day .

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Feb 21, 2015 11:10 AM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 21, 2015 11:10 AM in response to majid khalili

    Because you have a non-standard configuration with 10 partitions, you are running into issues. You Mac does not support UEFI either, otherwise BC would also work with these many partitions.

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili Feb 21, 2015 11:24 AM in response to Loner T
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    Feb 21, 2015 11:24 AM in response to Loner T

    about the number of partitions i don't think if there is a problem with that , but about UEFI support i really don't know ( i don't know even if that something hardware related or software ) , but as u say its something that mac doesn't support .

  • by Loner T,Helpful

    Loner T Loner T Feb 21, 2015 12:42 PM in response to majid khalili
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    Feb 21, 2015 12:42 PM in response to majid khalili

    Your Mac - How to identify MacBook Pro models - Apple Support is a 2010 model and does not support UEFI. There is a problem with your 10 partitions and Bootcamp. Bootcamp will not support more than 4, even though the Mac can support up to 128.

  • by majid khalili,

    majid khalili majid khalili May 16, 2015 1:02 PM in response to Loner T
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    May 16, 2015 1:02 PM in response to Loner T

    loner another question , its really making me crazy .

    if i merge all the partition together and get only one partition , does BC support that or not ?

  • by Loner T,Helpful

    Loner T Loner T May 16, 2015 2:26 PM in response to majid khalili
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    May 16, 2015 2:26 PM in response to majid khalili

    Yes. My suggestion is to backup all your current partitions, including OS X, erase the internal drive, restore OS X from backup and try BCA again.

     

    On a Yosemite machine with Bootcamp, which is preUEFI, this is the final state.

     

    diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         128.2 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

       4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                127.0 GB   disk0s4

    /dev/disk1

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                  Apple_HFS OSY-MBP13              *126.4 GB   disk1

                                     Logical Volume on disk0s2

                                     8A0116D5-7E1E-44D8-B2A0-8D4E4D48298D

                                     Unencrypted

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    Password:

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=256060514304; sectorsize=512; blocks=500118192

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

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

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 500118191

          start       size  index  contents

              0          1         MBR

              1          1         Pri GPT header

              2         32         Pri GPT table

             34          6        

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

         409640  250392096      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      250801736    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      252071272        664        

      252071936  248045568      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

      500117504        655        

      500118159         32         Sec GPT table

      500118191          1         Sec GPT header

     

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

    Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 sectors]

    Signature: 0xAA55

             Starting       Ending

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

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

    1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>

    2: AC 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  250392096] <Unknown ID>

    3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 250801736 -    1269536] Darwin Boot

    *4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 252071936 -  248045568] HPFS/QNX/AUX

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