My Mac Pro does not support Boot Camp (somehow)?

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My Mac Pro does not support Boot Camp (somehow)?

So for some reason every time I try and open the boot camp assistant I get this message "Boot camp assistant can not be used, This Mac does not support Boot Camp". I find this vary confusing as it should be able to (or so I assume as boot camp came pre installed). I don't Have a RAID set or even a RAID card for that matter. All the HD's are formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I'm not sure what else Im missing. I would consider using Parallels like on my macbook only that I'm trying to test out some rather graphic intensive games to see wether or not I want to build a gaming rig in the future, and virtual machines have this nasty habit of cutting my power in half.

Boot camp is 5.1.3

computer specs

Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

OSX 10.10.2

Processor: 2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon

Memory: 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB

4: 2 TB Hitachi HD's

Any help is much appreciated, thank you 🙂

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 10, 2015 3:06 AM

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emisaenz42

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Oct 26, 2017 8:47 AM in response to Loner T

I have this same exact problem. If anyone could help me.

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Loner T

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Feb 10, 2015 6:59 AM in response to mrvelocity

Please see Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems - Apple Support. It should be supported. What is the version of OSX?

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mrvelocity Author

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Feb 11, 2015 3:06 PM in response to Loner T

I have all the requirements. witch is puzzling, because it should work.

I'm on OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

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Loner T

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Feb 11, 2015 3:38 PM in response to mrvelocity

Do you have a RAID configuration on your MacPro?

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mrvelocity Author

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Feb 11, 2015 5:33 PM in response to Loner T

As I understand it (HD's linked together for storage redundancy or speed) I don't have RAID setup. All my hard drives operate and store information separately.

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Loner T

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Feb 11, 2015 5:40 PM in response to mrvelocity

Can you post the output of the following two commands from OS X Terminal? Do you have FileVault enabled?

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

As a test, can you install Mavericks on an external USB - OS X: Installing OS X on an external volume - Apple Support ?

You may also want to remove drives not intended for OS X and Windows and test.

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mrvelocity Author

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Feb 11, 2015 9:57 PM in response to Loner T

diskutil cs list gave me No CoreStorage logical volume groups found. I'm currently clearing a small HD to try and install mavericks. Will update when done.

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mrvelocity Author

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Feb 12, 2015 3:51 AM in response to mrvelocity

So update. Boot camp now works...somehow. Not sure how I fixed it but this is what I did that lead to it. As you asked I tried to make a boot drive on a USB for OS X Mavericks, But the App store would not let me download it. So instead I made one with OS X Yosemite. After witch I shut it down, pulled the USB and restarted. At witch point I got a gray screen. I then restarted and opened the startup manager. It only showed a install and a restore drive. Tried restore, but it just brought me back to the gray screen. At witch point I opened disk utility and repaired my main HD, and restarted. Still gray screen. So then I booted in safe mode witch brought me to my account login (and my screen flashed a bit). After I logged in I restarted again. Witch once again brought me back to gray screen. So I tried reseting my NVRAM with no success. Started in safe mode again and went to my start up disk and selected my main boot drive and restarted. All returned to normal and boot camp now works. Not sure what I did to fix the problem as i'm not that computer savvy but thanks for all your help and I hope you can gather some information from my random desperate attempts to get my computer running normally again.

In the end it all worked out

thanks again 🙂

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