Win 8 Installation MacBook Air (late 13) Win setup stuck - driver Prob

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Win 8 Installation MacBook Air (late 13) Win setup stuck - driver Prob

Dear community,

I'm trying since days to install Win 8 on a MacBook Air (late 13) with Bootcamp.

Everything is fine till the MAcBook boots to run Win 8 set routine. The installation stucks after the request for language etc. on the next window, requesting drivers, windows couldn't found on the USB Stick ("Please insert DvD or USB Stick for the missing drivers") or something like that.

I've tried to unpack "Bootcamp zip file on a 2nd USB drive, but this was successfull. Windows doesn't accept this drivers at all.

What I did first:

- Starting Bootcamp assistant on MAC OS X ML.

- Ticked all boxes on Bootcamp SW.

- Prepared a 32 GB USB 2.0 Stick (tried it also with a 64 GB USB 3.0 Stick, before) with Bootcamp and a Win 8 64 bit Iso (loaded directly from MS).

- Bootcamp loaded also the latest Apple support drivers onto the Stick (automatically ?)

- Partioned the SSD via Bootcamp

- Mac OS restarted the MacBook directly into the WIn8 setup routine and I can't go further due to the "obviously" missing drivers.

Please, can anybody help solving my pain with this issue ?

Many thanks in advance

Peter

MacBook Air

Posted on Apr 28, 2015 11:24 PM

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Loner T

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Apr 29, 2015 6:52 AM in response to fireater112

1. You need to use USB2, not USB3 devices.

2. Your source DVD/ISO for Windows is corrupted and has block errors. The Installer cannot find the driver and prompts for it. Please verify/download your Installer media/ISO file.

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May 6, 2015 10:22 AM in response to Loner T

Hi Loner,

thanks for that hint.

In the meantime I've loaned a extrnal DvD drive from a good friend and loaded the bootcamp drivers onto an USB 2.0 device.

This problem described above seems to be solved, but I've found a new one.

BootCamp assistant is now in status : Partitioning the HDD, but there is no progress (since about an hour). I go nuts with that Macbook ;-)

regards

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Loner T

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May 6, 2015 10:28 AM in response to fireater112

Please post the output of diskutil cs list from OSX Terminal? Do you have File Vault disk encryption turned on and is it in progress or paused state?

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fireater112 Author

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May 6, 2015 10:37 AM in response to Loner T

"No CoreStorage logical volume groups found"

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Loner T

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May 6, 2015 10:40 AM in response to fireater112

Look in Applications -> Utilities -> Console logs and enter boot in the top right hand search box and press enter.

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May 6, 2015 10:50 AM in response to Loner T

a lot of entries.

the last 3 are:

bootcampassistant:Disk 1 is not SATA or PCI

bootcampassistant:Disk 2 is not SATA or PCI

bootcampassistant: checkInstallationMedia: Failed to get content of /Volumes/TT_Stick4GB/win51

This is the USB Stick I've connected with the Bootcamp SW, downloaded from the Apple support side.

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Loner T

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May 6, 2015 11:08 AM in response to fireater112

Can you post the output of the following command from Terminal?

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

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May 6, 2015 11:13 AM in response to Loner T

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175

start size index contents

0 1 PMBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 235298960 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

235708600 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236978136 7

236978143 32 Sec GPT table

236978175 1 Sec GPT header

Disk: /dev/disk0

geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 236978175] <Unknown ID>

2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

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May 6, 2015 12:10 PM in response to fireater112

Hi Loner T

what I did in the meantime:

- stopped Bootcamp (interuption of BC)

- prepared another USB Stick with the Bootcamp SW - The info from the console log: bootcampassistant: checkInstallationMedia: Failed to get content of /Volumes/TT_Stick4GB/win51 was a helpfull hint.

- started BC with the new media again - and voila, Win8 installed after a further partitioning of the HDD.

you're support was fantastic and I would like to say thank you for your help and professionality.

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Loner T

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May 6, 2015 12:47 PM in response to fireater112

😎. Glad to see it work.

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