Q: Can't install Windows 10 on iMac
Hey there,
I have an iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) running El Capitan 10.11.4 and have recently been trying to install Windows 10. I previously had windows 8 running but it crashed and I thought I'd just upgrade to 10 for ease sake.
So far I've done all the steps necessary. I run boot camp and partition the drive and have tried installing off both the USB that came with Windows 10 and the creating an installation media downloaded from Windows website on a USB 2.0. When I get to the screen to select which partition to install on it comes up with an error message saying that it cannot be installed as the disk is of a GPT format (pics below) even after I hit format. I have also tried partitioning using Disk Utility with no success.
Anyone know how to fix this?
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Posted on Apr 26, 2016 5:19 AM
I've seen on previous threads to do some terminal commands for the following and hope these help:
iMac:~ taylortopperwien$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 1.6 TB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 1.4 TB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +1.7 TB disk2
Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
7DAAF1D7-259D-4395-86AD-9289B04CB5E2
Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *31.3 GB disk3
1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 31.3 GB disk3s1
iMac:~ taylortopperwien$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group B769CD29-DBC6-4C27-9BEC-7501854A3991
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
Size: 1721355112448 B (1.7 TB)
Free Space: 21262336 B (21.3 MB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 8B5D2E73-DA3B-463C-A431-AC360D5FE013
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 6FE03507-B919-4781-84EC-6D2FAF376A84
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 1
| Disk: disk1s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 1600366260224 B (1.6 TB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family 2997D8F2-3CF6-4E1C-A46D-AEC8D69E8691
----------------------------------------------------------
Encryption Type: None
|
+-> Logical Volume 7DAAF1D7-259D-4395-86AD-9289B04CB5E2
---------------------------------------------------
Disk: disk2
Status: Online
Size (Total): 1706803462144 B (1.7 TB)
Revertible: No
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
LVG Type: Fusion, Sparse
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=3000592982016; sectorsize=512; blocks=5860533168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 5860533167
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 3125715352 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3126124992 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3127394528 2732876456 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
5860270984 262151
5860533135 32 Sec GPT table
5860533167 1 Sec GPT header
Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 97451/255/63 [1565565872 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 4294967294] <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
Posted on Apr 26, 2016 6:27 AM
