Q: 27 inch late 2009 imac problems with bootcamp
Hello I currently have a late 2009 27 inch imac running os x Yosemite and having trouble with bootcamp. First thing I did was buy a home premium Windows 7 disk to get things going the problem is when I put it in my disk drive it spins for about 15 seconds then spits it out. OK fine I spent 80 bucks on that disk but I'll find another solution so I tried using bootcamp the other way (using a USB flash drive, formating it and downloading a windows 7 iso) everything was good until it restarted and I was met with the error message: No bootable device. OK I'll search it up on youtube Oh Somone said hold down alt key when restarting and my USB should show up perfect! Only it didn't I researched and some people said it might be the wrong type of USB but it isn't I checked and it is the right USB. I am completely out of options and I'm planning on buying a pc in the near future but i am tight on money and I have ALOT of Windows games in my steam library that I'm unable to play and I'm very irritated. Please if Somone could help me I would greatly appreciate it
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Posted on Apr 9, 2015 11:41 AM
A Mac with a built-in Optical drive cannot use a USB-only method to install Windows. You need both, a physical DVD and a USB (to hold BC drivers only).
Your Mac has a very specific issue - Boot Camp: iMac displays a black screen during installation of Windows 7 - Apple Support that need to be addressed with the steps shown.
Please see System requirements to install Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp - Apple Support for which specific Windows version/bit-level is supported.
Posted on Apr 9, 2015 2:43 PM