Bootcamp - "The selected drive has been ejected" error
Hello,
I have MacOs Majove 10.14.5 (18F132) installed on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012).
As of now (Wed 19th, 2019) my system does not request any OS updates. I have more than
50 GB space in my drive partition where MacOs is installed and in another partition
I have Windows 10 installed.
I recently had to do a fresh installation of my Windows 10 and started to use Boot Camp
Assistant to create a Windows support drivers usb. I used two different USB flash disks with
different manufacturers but each time driver download finishes and I guess copying of files
to the USB disk starts and about 3 minutes remaining to complete the whole thing,
I get this error:
The Windows support software could not be saved to the selected drive.
The selected drive has been ejected.
Well this is very strange because it was never ejected or used during all 8 attempts. I formatted
the drive to MS-DOS FAT with MBR using Disk Utility as recommended. Bootcamp also doesn't
allow other formats when I tried for test purposes. But I get the same error each time no matter
of which USB flash disk I use (I have tested 2 disks, one 16GB, other 128GB capacities).
Bootcamp never warns me about an issue with the two drives I tested. Drive utility was closed
also to not have any locking issues so it is not the matter I believe. I couldn't find anyone having
exactly the same issue with me on my google searches.
Looking forward for your assistance.
PS: Disk Utility formats my usb drives in MSDOS FAT 32, not FAT 16 no matter what I do even I chose
each time FAT, not ExFAT.
Thank you,
Ozan.
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14