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Apr 19, 2015 8:54 PM in response to NickNack27by Loner T,Did the Installer complete and allow you to create a log in and password? If not, Reboot and hold the Alt Key and choose the internal Bootcamp installation (not the DVD/CD).
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Apr 19, 2015 9:44 PM in response to NickNack27by NickNack27,I went with the Windows Hard Drive first and it seemed to go through a finish install and OSX popped back up upon completion. So I restarted, held the alt key again and it brought back up the picture above and I clicked Windows once more. It then took me through the process of setting up an account and password. Once it completed it restarted on its own and loaded OSX once more. I then restarted the computer once more and clicked the check mark to open with windows once it came back online and it took me back to OSX. I then restarted, held the alt key and clicked on the Windows hard drive once again and it appears to be working taking me through even more setups.
It is now running great, Windows 8.1 is completely installed.
Is there a way to easily flip back and forth between OSX and Windows instead of having to restart and hold the alt key and select the disk manually?
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Apr 20, 2015 4:42 AM in response to NickNack27by Loner T,1. Using System requirements to install Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp - Apple Support, please install the W7 64-bit drivers.
2. There are 4-5 reboots that are required for Windows to complete installation. In your specific case, these have/had to be manually completed, choosing the internal HD after the initial installation each time, so the installation would pick up from where it left off prior to reboot. This is typically done by setting the NVRAM boot arguments, but the manual installation cannot do that.
3. If BC drivers are installed properly then you can use Boot Camp: Set the default operating system.
4. Please take a back up of OS X and Windows. If you plan to use Windows Update, I suggest staying away from Windows driver updates.
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Apr 20, 2015 6:24 PM in response to Loner Tby NickNack27,So for #1, I need to download this? Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033 even though I already have 5.1.4?
For #2, I went through that process above and it appears that Windows is running great now.
For #3, is this basically for whenever the Mac starts this designates which side it starts up with?
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Apr 20, 2015 6:30 PM in response to NickNack27by Loner T,Bootcamp 5.1.4 is the version of Bootcamp Assistant. It is not the same as the version of BC drivers. The link I posted has the BC drivers.
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Jul 2, 2015 10:48 PM in response to Loner Tby dunlop.03,Hi Loner T,
This set of instructions has been the best thing I have found so far when trying to get Windows 8.1 onto my MBP Mid 2010 model.
I have followed the instructions you gave up until inserting my boot disk and power cycle restarting however when I restart my machine holding 'alt' I only get the option of picking my original Mac HD, there is no 'Windows' or EFO Boot option. Are you able to offer some help?
My partition shows up in disk utility although I did notice that when I checked the info it wasn't bootable. The below is an output of a sudo fdisk /dev/disk0.
Thank is advance.
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Jul 3, 2015 6:47 AM in response to dunlop.03by Loner T,Would you care to start a new discussion, to avoid confusion for future readers where two different problems may lead to diverging solutions?
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Jul 3, 2015 10:43 PM in response to Loner Tby dunlop.03,Hey,
Yeah that would be great, not sure how to do that though?
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Jul 4, 2015 6:35 AM in response to dunlop.03by Loner T,Please see Find answers and ask new questions .
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Jul 4, 2015 5:15 PM in response to Loner Tby dunlop.03,Hey,
I submitted a new question as 'Issue getting Windows 8.1 on MBP Mid 2010'
Cheers
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