Q: Windows 8.1 via Boot Camp on El Capitan, iMac mid 2011
I am desperately trying for a while now to do a bootcamp installation of Windows 8.1 on my mid 2011 iMac 21,5' with El Capitan.
A lot of workarounds do exist for older iMac's like mine, but nothing seems to work for me. I already applied the BCA "hack" of editing the info.plist to make the option of generating an install disk available, i also tried the "old fashioned" way of installing via burning the iso image on a dvd.
I already tried multiple usb sticks (8 and 32 GB).
The result is always the same: "no bootable device found; insert one and press any key".
If theres any suggestion on how to get windows on my Mac, i would be really happy. I don't mind which way, as mentioned before i still have an internal optical drive.
Regards
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Aug 23, 2016 6:43 AM
The USB Installer will not work properly. Let us take the risk with the last DVD media you have. The previous ISO had a bad checksum. Right-clikc on ISO, select Burn, choose the slowest burn rate, enable verify and enable mount after burn and check the contents after it is mounted on the Desktop.
Is your DVD+R a single-layer or dual-layer media?
Disconnect all external peripherals and run SMC and NVRAM Reset. Run BCA and choose the Install Option and test.
Posted on Aug 23, 2016 1:21 PM