Q: windows 10 not recognised as being higher than 7
I have an iMac Retina.
I'm trying to bootcamp Windows 10. Bootcamp Assistant does not recognise it as being a higher version than 7. It says it can't find an installer while there is a bootable USB stick there made from my Windows 10 installer DVD. There is also an ISO on the desktop.
I had to make the bootable installer disk in bash using dd, because Disk Util and Bootcamp Assistant kept throwing errors when I attempted to make the stick using them and the installed ISO that I downloaded from Microsoft's site, as per Apple's instructions. I keep finding help and advise that tells me these issues won't occur, so presumeably some people actually manage to do this without all the pain I'm experiencing. If those who have also had trouble could share their solutions that would be awesome
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null
Posted on Aug 30, 2016 10:38 PM
cvbk wrote:
Internet recovery mode is giving me hassles now. It's just sitting on the wifi selection screen. Have authenticated on the house wifi, and have connection via ethernet, which it is ignoring. Won't take next step.
IR should prefer the ethernet over WiFi. If you do not enter a password/do not authenticate, do you get to a Recovery Console?
cvbk wrote:
What does internet recovery mode bring to the party that basic recovery mode lacks?
Your Recovery HD is local, while IR boots using Netboot from Apple servers. There are some cases (open files), where Recovery HD being in use, does not help the repairDisk process. IR does not use local Recovery HD.
Posted on Aug 31, 2016 3:35 PM


