Q: Windows 7 boot camp help
Hey!, I've been trying for last couple of days now to install windows 7 on my mid-2010 iMac and having trouble getting passed a certain point. I did a wipe and reinstall a few days ago of Yosemite where I previously had windows 7 installed through bootcamp and it had worked perfectly fine. (with same disk I'm using now)
So the part I get stuck is when theres a restart and it tries to boot up into windows and I get message. 'no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key'.
I've followed a number of different tutorials and always ended up here. The steps I have followed so far,
- Made an iso of my windows 7 installation disk (64-bit window 7 home premium, OEM software) using an usb connected hard drive as the built in mac one just spits the disk back out, this disk has worked before but don't know if this is now the problem so i'll include it anyway. And i believe i created the iso correctly.
- I had to follow a tutorial to get the 'Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk' tick box to show up in BCA. This worked fine.
- I formatted a 32gb 2.0 usb to MS-DOS(FAT) and then through BCA ticked all the boxes, 'create windows 7 or later version install disk', 'download latest windows support software from apple' and install windows 7 or later version. I selected my create windows 7 iso and formatted usb and partitioned my hard drive so bootcamp had 200gb.
So then the computer restarts and I presume tries to boot up to install windows and then i get the message I mentioned before. I think I included all steps I took but if theres more information i need ill add it. Thanks for any help! and are there any other locations I could post this to get help if i cant get it here?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), null
Posted on Jul 18, 2015 6:58 AM