Best method to upgrade Boot Camp partition from Windows 7 to Windows 10? Intel HD Graphics 4000 incompatibility?

To review:

I was able to download the ISO for Win10 1809 from the Microsoft website, while running on the MacOS (if you try this running Windows,you'll be moved directly to the installation process without downloading the ISO). Then, under Windows, I used a program called "Rufus" to create the USB Flash Drive installer, and it was this I used to upgrade my system from Win7 to Win10.

Back under the MacOS, where I'm running 10.12.6 Sierra, I was able to use Boot Camp Assistant to download the Boot Camp Drivers to a second USB Flash drive, and it was with this that I first attempted to install the Apple drivers. In addition, I found that if I ran Apple Software Update while running Windows, I was offered an update to Boot Camp 6.0. In ASU's "Tools" menu, there is an option to "Download Only" which I did - so I wound up with two different Boot Camp installers, both of which seemed to contain the same files.

Either method failed, however, until I followed the instructions from a link that was graciously provided by Loner T: hhttps://discussions.apple.com/thread/7172193

This required making a hack to the registry, removing a particular entry. Once that was accomplished, I was able to install from either the BCA created USB Flash Drive, or from the downloaded Apple BCupdate.exe file downloaded by ASU. This process worked almost perfectly, except that in that early in the installation process, I receive an error message to the effect that "The Installer has Stopped Working" with the only option being to quit it. Doing this does not stop the whole installation, which continues successfully.

Since the one glaring omission to my Boot Camp installation is the Read-Only access to the HFS+ formatted partitions. My guess is that the attempted Driver and Registry installation for this were what prompted the error message and installation crash I mentioned above. Loner T suggested I look for the setupapi.dev.log to see if any clues could be found there, but once I finally located it, I could not see anything but the results of successful processes.

I suppose that I might be able to find something in the Windows Event Viewer, but without knowing what exactly to look for, that appears to be a needle in a haystack...

Alan Jenks and Loner T,

I tried the method as described in the video, using regedit.

I entered a new string for "D:" in the appropriate place, and entered the data "Device\HarddiskVolume2", as the MacOS volume is the second partition on my computer's internal drive - the first being the EFI partition, the second the MacOS, the third the MacOS Recovery, and the forth the Bootcamped Windows drive "C:".

Upon restarting, I could see a new drive D: in the Windows File Explorer, but when I double clicked on it, I got an error message: "D:\ is not Accessible. The Filename, DirectoryNames or Volume Label syntax is incorrect."

I removed the new entry in regedit, and restarted - I'm back to where I was.

luchi101 - The latest version of Boot Camp and drivers that are compatible with your computer and the version of Windows you are running can be downloaded in either of two ways: using Boot Camp Assistant (under the MacOS), or by running "Apple Software Update" (under Windows). Either method will look for the software appropriate to your system - trying to force the installation of other versions could result in bigger problems than whatever you're experiencing now.

I managed to get Win10 Pro 64b up and running on my late 2012 Mac Mini, but I'm having difficulties with installing the updated Boot Camp and other hardware drivers from the USB Stick I created under the MacOS > Boot Camp Assistant.

I was able to find the BootCamp folder > Setup.exe on the stick, and even running as Administrator, it stops with the progress bar about 1/4 of the way through with a message stating that a needed resource is unavailable, and that I need to find a valid copy of "Bootcamp.msi". When I browse to the USB Stick > BootCamp > Drivers > Apple > Bootcamp.msi, I get the message that it is "not a vlaid installation package". From there my only option is to quit the whole process.

Just to review - I created the USB stick by first formatting the 16GB SanDisk Cruzer Glide drive with Disk Utility as MS-DOS (fat), with MBR partitioning. Then I used Boot Camp Assistant and chose the second option to download the needed files and drivers. When I check the Bootcamp.xml file, it shows that the version to be installed is indeed 6.0.6136. MacOS is 10.12.6 Sierra.

Thanks in advance, for any help.

In the hour since my last post, I used Apple Software Update (ASU), which found two updates for me: Apple Input Device 6.0, and Boot Camp 6.0 update. Everything seemed to download alright, but partway through the installation phase, I got an error message saying that "the installer has stopped working" and that I should Quit it. I did so, but ASU kept running and apparently now running the second update, but not long after that also stopped working, whereupon the now familiar message came up that a network resource is unavailable, and none of those I have access to are "valid installation packages".

I quit ASU, which required that I restart the computer. When it finished re-booting, I tried ASU a second time, and this time the Applie Input Device 6.0 was not in the list, but Bootcamp 6.0 was. I ran it, but soon the same problem happened again - the installer needed to quit, ASU required a re-boot, and now I'm here typing.

I've seen some posts here that mention something about using "elevated priveliges" to install the drivers individually from the USB stick, but I don't know how to do that...

Thanks very much, Loner T!

I guess I was working in Win10 the whole time with the previous version of Boot Camp which had been installed when I established my Win7 installation.

I was having some other issues - most notably being unable to make a Backup Image using Macrium Reflect (Free) due to VSS errors. Having the proper Boot Camp installed seemed to fix those as well as installing the new drivers.

Layer by layer the onion is getting peeled (complete with the tears).

A remaining issue is that I cannot "see" the Mac HFS+ formatted partitions, as I could in Win7/Bootcamp 5. I liked having Read Only access to the Mac side from Windows, and vice versa - I could get at my data but it reduced the possibility of cross-system contamination. Short of installing something like MacDrive or Paragon's HFS+ for Windows (both of which I already own licenses for), is there any way to get back the Read Only access in Win10?

Thanks again.

I should add that after doing the Boot Camp and drivers installation, the Bluetooth drivers were in place for me, so I did not pursue the advice given in the second of the linked articles from Loner T's most recent reply.