boot camp installation hangs at realtek audio stepSearch or ask a question

This helped me as well, installing on Windows 10 (standalone purchase), MacBook 12", El Capitan.

It looks like the RealTek installer does not cooperate in the BootCamp unattended install. It seems it's waiting for user input, but it has not provided an interface for the user to interact with. Once the RealTek installer runs manually, the user can then click on the install/intalll/ok/etc buttons. Then the BootCamp installer, which was patiently waiting for the RealTek installer to complete, continues where it was and finishes the rest of the install.

This is a RealTek / Apple issue, not Microsoft. Either the BootCamp installer is scripted incorrectly, perhaps missing a command line switch, or the RealTek installer does not correctly honor the unattended install command.

Worked for me too. Thank you very much!!!!

I followed these steps exactly but Boot Camp Simply stopped installing.

After this happened my laptop disconnected from WiFi and now I can't reconnect at all because it doesn't see any available networks.

Now when I go to "This PC" in File Explorer the only thing it shows in "Devices and drives" is "Local Disk (C:)."

I accidentally turned off the computer because all it takes is one click as opposed to holding it down while on OSX (hopefully this didn't mess anything up) and during startup I couldn't switch back to OSX.

Any advice?

You no longer have Wireless drivers installed. You will need to re-install BC drivers but ensure that RealTek drivers can either be deleted before you run setup.exe from the Bootcamp folder, or use the workaround in this discussion.

where is the bootcamp folder, i searched in cortana but she has`t a solution.

I dellte windows, with bootcamp but i need windows for school stuff, .... !

Please, answer me.

Bye, Liri23 !!!!!!!!

Please see Bootcamp 6.0 driver install interrupted .

Just to clarify the clarification: The bootcamp folder is in the USB drive. Open that folder, then the Drivers folder, then the RealTek folder. Then run the RealtekSetup program. When it finishes, you open the task bar with cntl alt delete and end the RealtekSetup process.

Thanks so much for this really helpful tip!!!!

Theres some instructions on how to http://tonyandtech.blogspot.com/2016/01/boot-camp-keeps-on-freezing.html

That helped me out, saved a lot of work...on my new Macbook 12", El Capitan.

Thanks a lot, I find it very cool that you posted the solution here.

Christian

God **** I spent three hours on support today trying to troubleshoot this problem and this solved it for me instantly. Thanks.

Ok so I'm doing a new install on mid 2015 MacBook Pro Retina my, wife's new machine. The realtec audio driver hung up. it seemed to stop working, but curiously i was able to freely work around windows. I had no sound but had full access to windows. I found the post from lincizy and jmwils1, see posted below.

lincizyNov 13, 2015 1:05 AM Re: boot camp installation hangs at realtek audio stepSearch or ask a question
Re: boot camp installation hangs at realtek audio stepSearch or ask a questionin response to hermanfromsan gabrielRecommended

I found a solution, when the installation hangs at realtek audio:

1. DO NOT turn it off

2. go to your bootcamp folder, manually install the realtek driver, DO NOT restart

3. after manully setup, open Task Manage, and kill the "RealtekSetup" process

4. bootcamp will skip the Realte, and have fun

jmwils1Nov 13, 2015 5:15 PM Re: boot camp installation hangs at realtek audio stepSearch or ask a question
Re: boot camp installation hangs at realtek audio stepSearch or ask a questionin response to hermanfromsan gabrielHelpful

I am so thankful I found this. I am having the same issue on a new 13" 2015 MBP retina. Bootcamp installs Windows 10 fine but the setup hangs at the Realtek step. I tried installing manually without luck and couldn't get the trackpad to word so I could right click on anything. After 20 minutes on the phone with Apple Support I was told it was a Windows issue with the drivers they supplied and they can't help me. They suggested that I contact Microsoft. I did and they couldn't help since it was an Apple product.

I wanted to clarify that in the above solution, click control+option+delete to get to task manager. It will show "Setup" as the running process. Do not end this task. Instead click on "More Details" at the bottom and scroll down to find "Realtek Setup". The instructions by lincizy were exactly correct, but you have to expand the "More Details" to find it. I am now running Windows 10 and have a working trackpad.

Thank you so much lincizy!

I found in my case that after waiting a few minutes (5 ish) I began to follow linczy's recommendation. Sadly I was surprised to find that the windows support driver's and ISO never made it to my USB drive. The drive was blank. I am running BC 6.0.1 (522). I had not seen this before. I have a MID 2013 MacBook Pro running Windows 7 Pro (Absolutely Love it, BTW) and the USB drive had the support drivers and ISO files onboard. As I began to panic I wondered, so I followed jmwils1's suggestion and simply bypassed, or so I thought, the realtec driver install. the drivers continued on and boot camp completed without further issue. When I tested the system sound I found that it was working correctly. If I was a betting man I would bet that the hang comes after installation of the realtec driver and just never moves on.

It is curious that after weeks of prep and review I found no such mention about the lack of need for the USB drive for this install. I had never seen a cross partition installation before. I followed Create an ISO image for Boot Camp from Windows installation media - Apple Support this article only to find that the image below never appeared. I guess the new BC assumes this and skips it. The only reference I find is the ability to DL the drivers to the USB from the menu above. I say all this because following instruction is easy, but when the instruction is at odds with the software it tends to freak me out.

Hope this helps any future patron's. Please excuse the post length but i felt more context was appropriate.

The with-USB and without-USB installations are documented in https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/assistant/6.0/ . 2015 Macs will only support EFI OSes, so the Hybrid MBR kludge for WXP through W7 (and support for these) is no longer available in 2015 Macs.

The only downside I feel is that it downloads the BC Windows Support Software overtime, which is much worse than a one-time-create-multi-use USB installer model. It does bridge a loophole where users would create the USB on one model and try to use it on another.

I recently ran into several issues regarding Bootcamp. If you are experiencing the ever installing Bootcamp 6 screen in WIN 10 then I suggest that you try the following:

1. When opening Apple Update quickly click cancel to stop the auto updater. Then click on tools and go to Downloads update folder. There you should find the file for Bootcamp6 installer. Initiate install and this will show you a progress bar of files being installed. This is where I discovered that RealTek Audio was the problem. It just hangs up. Don't cancel out, let it continue. Now go to Windows Task Manager and click on the lower left menu for more details and kill RealTek Audio process. Once you do this BC6 will finish installing. Once done, reboot system and give it a second or two to load the updated drivers. It didn't take long for my MBP and I was good to go!

As for the audio driver, WIN 10 supported so I didn't install the audio driver.

Hope this helps someone out with this issue.

I give thanks to those that posted this on other forums. Wish I had saved the website so that I could give proper recognition.

Thank you so much, it worked perfectly!

Loner T,

It is always amazing that in a time of need information just seems to be out of reach. I guess its like hindsight, always 20/20. Many thanks for the information I found it useful.