BootCamp Assistant Not Working on New 2019 MacBook Pro 16 Inch

Can confirm have this issue also on the

MB16 2019

i9, 2TB, 32GB

I'm kinda disappointed, this should be in there day one.

Here this machine costs approximately 6.2k aud

I originally thought the issue was windows 1909 but tried and tested 1903 which worked on the 15 is also affected.

I also am really enjoying the new hardware but this is a big bummer for me. I don't want to install a virtual machine of Windows and then have to reinstall everything later.

I use my MacBook for school coding projects. Hope they can get this done soon.

dwhk wrote:

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.

You can get the Wireless card model from the macOS side. Broadcom does not typically provide drivers for OEM'd cards.

Not that I WANT to, but as a fallback in the short-term, does Parallels work on the i9 16? I am a week out from delivery, and this is supposed to be a work box (50% windows, 50% osx). Kinda freaking out...

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.

I just talked to Apple Support via chat, and this is what I was told:

Thanks for waiting. I did some checking, and it looks like we’ve had a few other reports of this with this model, and it’s something we’ll be checking into. Currently, the recommendations are to continue trying this periodically to see if the behavior changes. If it does continue for an extended period of time, I would suggest we reconnect and check for any updates to the suggestions by our software engineers.

I guess we'll just have to wait

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.

Also waiting for the bootcamp driver. I'm a VR developer and this may be the first VR capable MacBook to date. I am firmly aware of the 14 day return policy and hope to not need it. If anyone finds that the driver is released, please make a note here.

I'll post here if I find it before then.

has anyone tried winclone? i made a copy of my bootcamp partition using winclone from twocanones.com and i am hoping i can just copy this partition to my new 16 mbp (as intended) and hopefully it would work...of course i would have to update drivers some drivers....

I could not get my Winclone backup form my 2017 15" MBP to boot on the 16".

In fact, I need to write to Two Canoes to see if it will boot when Boot Camp is updated for the 16".

I'm guessing that it won't, unless there is some way of updating the drivers.

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.

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!

I just attempted this with the 1909 iso and upon reboot received ‘unable to verify startup disk’

Ill try again with another iso but it does require you re-download the support software, wipe out the partition, and start over.

dwightb.coder wrote:

@iRuney did you have to disable secure boot from recovery? I’m installing 1909 after disabling that but it seemed like an odd undocumented step.

BC Assistant is a trusted agent. You will not need to do this, unless Microsoft has new issues with W10 1909.

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.