catalina and bootcamp

The issue I had with BootCamp was on my Mac Pro (late 2013).

and the only issue was with not being able to access the wireless network.

my guess was it had to do with not being able to track down the proper driver for the wireless card.

if I more time, I think I could have tracked that down.

it worked hard wired to my LAN.

in the meantime, after getting a new MacBook Pro, the Mac Pro seemed slow and the firewire and usb interface was all of a sudden like dial-up in comparison. So I no longer have it and decided to do emulation instead.

Repeat on 10.15.4...Bootcamp won't work with my USB keyboards on MacBook Pro mid-2013 now. Only works with USB devices disconnected...Ouch Apple!

I'm right there with you. This transition is almost as bad as when Windows released Vista, which is what made me a Mac user to begin with. I went through **** getting my music and photo libraries to work after a fresh install of Catalina, and now I'm stuck not being able to install Bootcamp. Absolutely ridiculous. Even after 2 updates to the OS, it still feels like this is a beta OS.

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I decided to try some old school tricks. I reset NVRAM and that did not work. I then did a disk repair for the entire disk.

On the first attempt to boot to Windows the screen went black. On the second attempt some Windows updates finished that must have been waiting and now I am back in Windows although it seems slow. Wifi works but is slow.

Hi, I have similar question regarding this as well.

I have boot camp partition with Windows 10 in my macbook pro. Currently running on macOS Mojave and wondering if I can safely update to macOS Catalina without messing up with the boot camp?

Hi Allen,

I have problem with BootCamp & CATALINA, the process start normally but progress stops at "PARTITIONING DISK". I must stop bootcamp and delete partition created with Disk Utility to start again, but the same problem.

Hello shahad88! 

Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities. From your post I see you have some questions about using Boot Camp with Windows 10 on macOS Catalina. This article shows how you can install Windows 10 on macOS Catalina: Get started with Boot Camp on Mac. 

Have you tried installing Boot Camp with macOS Catalina? If you have, and you're having any issues provide us with details. We'll see how we can help further.

I hope this was helpful. 

Cheers

I already had Windows 10 on my iMac. Was working fine with Mojave.

After updating to Catalina I cannot boot to Windows at all. I get to the Windows boot logo and it just hangs.

I too am having issues with BootCamp and Catalina on my 2017 iMac. After upgrading from Mojave I tried to use BootCamp to install Windows and it immediately tells me "Boot Camp cannot be installed to a split Fusion drive. In order to install Boot Camp please restore your drives to Fusion." I'm assuming that this was caused by the upgrade to Catalina. I guess I should have done the BootCamp thing first and then upgraded but I would have figured that Apple would have tested BootCamp on Catalina with Fusion drives...... My 2015 Mac Book Pro already had a BootCamp partition and after upgrading it to Catalina it still works but it does not have a Fusion drive.

Had a bit of trouble with partitioning with BootCamp on 2018 MacBook Air with Catalina. The second attempt worked as it should so not sure what the issue was? Windows 10 Home installed fine and then BootCamp installed drivers. Two finger scrolling seems way to sensitive and fast, and I have yet to find a option in Win or BootCamp option to reverse scroll direction. Battery life is typical of BootCamp about half of what Mac OS is. My personal preference in the past was Windows with a VM like Parallels which I think I may go back to that.

Hi, I solved this kind of problem. To use BootCamp your hard disk must no have any partition. If you have one, first you should delete it, then recover that space for your main macOS (Catalina, Mojave), then start BootCamp assistant. With this procedure I installed Windows 10 in my MacBook Pro and MacMini.

Anyone flag up any issues with updating an existing macOS which also has an existing Bootcamp install on the drive. Particularly those with an extra read/write partition for both OSs.

I use Windows for 90% of my work as my battery and performance is much better with the same applications, but I do require MacOS for XCode so need to duel boot.

Bit concerned about the new split partition stuff on the MacOS install as my setup was a pain as it was. Have a late 2015 MBP with SDD in 3 partitions. HFS+ for MacOS (60g) NTFS for Windows (60g) and a Fat32 shared drive with the rest of the space. I can rebuild either/both my Mac or Windows install if required, but would rather not spend the time on it.

Part of me wants to just press the update button, but I don't want to lose my main OS and workspace for the sake of the new XCode lolz.

I have 10.15.1 and still having a problem. I just upgraded to Catalina and my partition part of Windows is either extremely slow or not working at all. I have Windows 10 Pro version 1903. I wonder if I should update Windows? I haven't found a solution yet for this. I contacted Apple about this and passed the buck to Microsoft. They in turn said it's an Apple problem

I have a OWC Aura Pro X2 1 GB SSD w Catalina on a Mid 1914 rMBP. Impossible to create a BC w Windows 10, de novo. Period.

OWC says it’s an incompatibility if some sort and they’re working on it. I already had BC on the same computer when I went from 10.14.2 to Catalina 15.1, but w the original Apple Samsung SSD 512. I don’t know if BC could have been established de novo w the Boot Camp Assistant. Too late to find out, now.

I tried to install it twice in our 2016 MPB and first time it stopped while partitioning. Started over and it installed fine but cannot set up windows because it won't see the wifi network. Installed without wifi and it says that windows doesn't have the driver for my network card. Not sure what to do now except start over?