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1TB 5k iMac issue with Bootcamp

Hey All,

I know you have probably come across this a few times but I have been dealing with Apple support and they have offered me no help.

I had a MBP before and has no issues installing windows but i have tried windows 7/8/and 10 tech preview and it hasnt worked.

it is telling me that i need to partition it to NTFS or it wont install when i am in windows install. i have tried doing this and deleting the partition, i have tried formatting in windows, i have even tried getting a third party ntfs file format for osx. all have failed.

please help. i bought a $3000 machine with no support for windows it seems 😟

thanks!

-Marco

iMac with Retina 5K display, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Apr 21, 2015 9:01 AM

47 replies

Apr 22, 2015 7:09 PM in response to Loner T

Sooo. Good news is I got windows installed. I wiped it clean and remembered I used my time machine backup HDD to try to install windows with.

So the bad news is. I lost everything. But it seems that the time machine restore was what was stopping me.

Thank you so much for your help man!

Loner T

Level 9

59,477 points

Apr 22, 2015 7:16 PM in response to Marcanthonynoz

I mourn the loss of you back ups, even though I am glad that Windows did come up. Do not wipe your TM backup (i assume it is on an external disk). Unless the disk for the TM is completely dead, it may be possible to recover files (and potentially the whole sparse bundle).

Is it a Time Capsule?

1TB 5k iMac issue with Bootcamp