XENiCraft wrote:
OK sorry my reply above was a little rash.
I do not have a fusion drive just a standard spinning 3tb. I am setting up my mac from scratch so I can get everything running smoothly with the new hard drive so I am setting up Boot Camp at the beginning so I can restore quite quickly if something goes wrong.
The drive seems to be fine. I have successfully followed the thread that I linked and gotten the Boot Camp 5.0.0 installer from a previous backup and it partitions the drive and launches the Windows Install disc successfully. But then when I click on the Boot Camp partition (the fourth one on the list with EFI, Main install and Recovery before it) and click format as per Apple's instructions. It does the format but does not allow me to continue as it says it can't install to a GPT partition. So I read somewhere that an EFI Boot would do it so I restarted the Mac holding option and saw 4 options, Mac OS X, Recovery, Windows and EFI Boot so I tabbed over to that and pressed enter to get... nothing. Nothing changed and it just sits there so I have restarted the Mac and deleted the partition with Boot Camp Assistant and then retried to get the same results. Do you have any other ideas apart from a VM?
No problem and no I do not have other ideas yet, some users managed to get through this stage but Windows still failed to install, and in some cases the BC space could not be recovered, hence back to Apple. I would not do anything without a complete and current backup, and I think that I would wait for Apple to pronounce on this (better yet, fix it).
There is one poster here who may know how to deal with this, he is not here today but I will leave a message for him to look in here when he next logs in.
Best I can do for now 🙂
(He will insist that you have a current clone of your drive to restore in case of disaster, you might as well make one now)