I want to install win8.1 on my mac book pro but in the select task window install win 7 or later version is not active and only download driver is active which i have done before , what should i do ?
OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Use Virtualization engines like VMware Fusion, Parallels or VirtualBox instead of Bootcamp.
I booted my laptop with win8 and wanted to install windows but i got an error because of GPT partition , finally i installed it on a vmware , but there should be an easy way for these thing , these are really common and shouldn't be that complicated ,
thanks for your hints and help during these day .
Because you have a non-standard configuration with 10 partitions, you are running into issues. You Mac does not support UEFI either, otherwise BC would also work with these many partitions.
about the number of partitions i don't think if there is a problem with that , but about UEFI support i really don't know ( i don't know even if that something hardware related or software ) , but as u say its something that mac doesn't support .
Your Mac - How to identify MacBook Pro models - Apple Support is a 2010 model and does not support UEFI. There is a problem with your 10 partitions and Bootcamp. Bootcamp will not support more than 4, even though the Mac can support up to 128.
loner another question , its really making me crazy .
if i merge all the partition together and get only one partition , does BC support that or not ?
Yes. My suggestion is to backup all your current partitions, including OS X, erase the internal drive, restore OS X from backup and try BCA again.
On a Yosemite machine with Bootcamp, which is preUEFI, this is the final state.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 128.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 127.0 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS OSY-MBP13 *126.4 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
8A0116D5-7E1E-44D8-B2A0-8D4E4D48298D
Unencrypted
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=256060514304; sectorsize=512; blocks=500118192
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 500118191
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 250392096 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
250801736 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
252071272 664
252071936 248045568 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
500117504 655
500118159 32 Sec GPT table
500118191 1 Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 250392096] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 250801736 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 252071936 - 248045568] HPFS/QNX/AUX
why in bootcamp select task page , install windows checkbox is not active ?
