Windows 8 GPT

I have a macbook pro late 2011 15 inch and I can’t install windows 8. I tried to install it on bootcamp but It needs a usb and I have heard that you cant use usb on old macs because of efi orsomething idk. So I burned a dvd with windows 8 on It. The made a fat32 partition. I restarted my mac and booted into “Windows” the other one was efi and that doesn’t work. I choose my partition and It said that It cant be installed on a GPT style. I have seen videos that they wipe out the hard drive in commant prompt and then you can install It without mac os. Is there any solution for this?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Dec 12, 2020 3:11 PM

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Loner T

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Posted on Dec 12, 2020 7:36 PM

On a 2011 Mac, which has a built-in Optical drive, your BC Assistant should have two options - Download and Install.

Download - will download Bootcamp drivers to a USB2 flash drive. Do not use a USB3 storage device.
Install - partitions your internal disk, and uses DVD installation media to install.
Do not manually create a partition using Disk Utility, otherwise you will see the GPT vs MBR error.
Your Mac does not support EFI Boot of Windows. Your Mac only support legacy BIOS (specifically CSM-BIOS).

Also, see Bootcamp User Interface - Apple Community for reference.

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