Boot Camp not supported on this Mac MSG

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Boot Camp not supported on this Mac MSG

I just installed Windows 7 Home Premium via Boot Camp on my Mac on Friday. On Saturday everything seemed to work as it should. But on Sunday when I tried to open the Boot Camp assistent on my Mac mini (Mid 2011) OS X Yosemite I get an error message (in Dutch) that reads: 'Boot Camp assistent can not be used. Boot camp is not supported on this Mac'

I tried to repair the bootcamp drivers in windows (which still seems to work when I restart holding down Option) but to no avail. Windows still seems to work but without the boot camp assistent no longer supported I can not delete it if I need to repartition or delete it.

Thank you in advance for your help

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Posted on Jun 14, 2015 2:30 PM

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Kappy

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Jun 14, 2015 2:47 PM in response to Zebrapatman

Only Win 8 and later is supported in Yosemite.

Boot Camp- System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems

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Loner T

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Jun 14, 2015 2:47 PM in response to Zebrapatman

You can try the following steps...

a. Run Disk Utility Repair and try BCA again.

b. If that does not work, boot in Safe Mode - OS X Mavericks: Start up in safe mode and boot normally and try BCA again.

c. If that does not work then

Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Supportand try BCA again.

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Zebrapatman Author

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Jun 15, 2015 12:56 PM in response to Kappy

Thank you for the information, but according to the articles I found Win 7 should be supported in OS Yosemite: OS X Yosemite: Use Windows 7 or Windows 8 on your Mac

Apparently only newer models wouldn't support win 7 anymore.

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