BootCamp Assistant Not Working on New 2019 MacBook Pro 16 Inch

As of 1:45pm, the Windows drivers are able to be downloaded from Apple's server. Installing Windows 10 now on my 16" MBP.

Brigadier also cannot find it the Apple catalog used for 2018 and older Macs.

./brigadier -o ~/Documents/BootcampDrivers/MacBookPro16.1 -m MacBookPro16,1
Using Mac model: MacBookPro16,1.

Couldn't find a Boot Camp ESD for the model MacBookPro16,1 in the given software update catalog.

Apple needs to upload the drivers to the existing catalogs in their CDNs.

All the 2019 Macs are UEFI Macs, which can boot from a vanilla W10 ISO, but you may have to wait for Apple-specific drivers for any Apple-custom hardware. If someone has a PC, create a USB2 Flash drive via Windows MCT and boot from the USB. You may need to disable Boot security.

See

• About Startup Security Utility - Apple Support
• About Secure Boot - Apple Support

for reference.

AMD should have WHQL drivers for the GPUs.

I was able to finally get confirmation from Apple Support that the Windows Support Software had not been finished and they would let me know when it is available.

I tried a manual install which requires disabling boot protection, etc but couldn’t get past the “no drives” issue for the internal drive.

For those interested I can confirm Parallels works well in the system but I have not test it with Visual Studio as I opted to wait and keep using my existing setup rather then waste time on a temp solution.

Hi All

It appears Boot Camp Support files just got released.

I spoke with Apple Engineering today and about 2 hours after the called I randomly checked and pow, they downloaded. I have not tested them yet. Spread the word!

Interesting. I tried another, much older, ISO with the same result so went back to 1909

It is now installed and doing updates. So far everything is fully functional with sound Bluetooth, Touch Bar, etc.

I successfully installed with the 1903 Windows 10 ISO on the stock higher-end 16” using the boot camp tools released today.

I have the new 16" MBPro, with 32 GB and 8GB Radeon Pro 5500M.

I was able to get Windows running on an external HD. I used WintoUSB (free) to copy the ISO to the external drive.

I then manually downloaded the drivers for Bootcamp using my MBPro 2019 15". After Windows installed, I manually installed all drivers I could.

The good.

• Most drivers are the same except for a couple of major ones.
• Keyboard and track pad will work, but only after you install the Bootcamp drivers. For install you need external mouse and keyboard

The Bad

• Wireless driver will not work
• Radeon driver cannot detect the new hardware (I have the Radeon Pro 5500M model, 8GB) However I was able to trick it to use the 5500M HD driver which seems to work (the resolution changed and the driver does not have any errors)
• Audio says its working but its not
• One other chip is not working, not sure which one

I added a USB Ethernet connection and did a full Windows update, scanned for new drivers, ran various other scans for the Radeon hardware, wireless and audio. No luck. If anyone knows the exact model of the wireless adapter, let me know and I will try to get it directly from Broadcom. I can't seem to find the exact model number.

It is a usable Windows system as long as you don't need audio, and have another wireless adapter you can plug in. Far from ideal, but it does work.

If anyone has any other ideas, let me know and I will try it.

Hope this helps.

Does BC Assistant -> Action -> Download work?

Post the output of About This Mac -> System Report -> Storage.

Can you post the file structure on your installation USB?

FYI on AMD Windows drivers. They currently have an Adrenaline package for the Radeon consumer version of the card, but not the "Pro" version (as of 11/18/2019). The consumer card drivers may work, but I cannot verify this. This could be the reason for the delay. Interestingly enough, I am also unable to get either public or developer beta updates to this system. These new new machines may not yet be registered with various Apple support services at this time.

Hi

Just download the AMD drivers, start the install, then once it uncompresses use Device Manager to update the drive. Select driver manually, "Have Disk" and then locate the decompressed folder, go to drivers folder and select. You will get a list of drivers and select the one you want. Prior to that however, you may also want to try to install the drivers from bootcampdrivers.com. I think, even though it did not properly detect the hardware, it did install the driver software. I cannot remember which I did first.

Hope this helps.

Drivers is out now. Im downloading

speakElvish wrote:

Did the steps above, but the installation stuck at "couldn't find any drives",

The storage is Apple-specific. This is provided by drivers, which Bootcamp Assistant puts in $WinPEDriver$.

even though I've already partitioned a exFAT image for windows installation. Problem similar to this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8419542

Can you use Brigadier and download drivers for MacBookPro15,3 and just copy the $WinPEDriver$, AutoUnattend.xml (not the Bootcamp folder) to Windows MCT-created USB's root and retry booting from the USB?