Issue getting Windows 8.1 on MBP Mid 2010

Here you are.

MacBook-Pro:~ BenDunlop$ sudo Fdisk //dev/disk0

Password:

Disk: //dev/disk0 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 0 0 2 - 25 127 14 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 194756592] HFS+

*3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 195430400 - 292966400] HPFS/QNX/AUX

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

I'm also assuming that this process is still the only/easiest you know of to get Windows 8.1 running on this particular MBP?

I'm not sure about that, I haven't removed it.

I got this laptop as an old, unused, extra from work. I have upgraded the RAM and also replaced the HD with an SSD. When I replaced the HD I did a copy of the old HD with SuperDuper, then just plugged the new drive in and away it went. I haven't done anything else other than create a manual partition using disk utility with the hopes of installing Windows 8.1.

There is/should not be any user data on the laptop as I removed it all and there is nothing I need to save.

This machine is running OSX version is 10.10.4

I don't have any of the installation disks for OSX so I'm not sure how I would go about re-installing? I'm not phased about losing the partition that's on there at the moment as it has nothing on it yet.

Hey mate,

Followed your link, I cannot access Recovery, or Internet Recovery no matter how many times I try. Someone else suggested downloading Yosemite again from the app stall, and running the installer. I did this however the installer gives me an error that it cannot unpack a certain package and cannot proceed with the installation. I then tried to quit the installer and start up the computer normally but now it will only start and run the installer. I am at a bit of a loss.

From other searching I found a suggestion to remove the new SSD, put the old HD back in, and do the back up onto the new SSD with a different program to SuperDuper. This may work but I don't really want to have to open up the case again if there is another solution? Although the fact that I can;t even get past the Yosemite installer know doesn't give me much confidence.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

I will try these steps tonight. I didn't bring the machine to work with me today.

Can I ask though, I had a google around but didn't find anything which made it clear for me, what do you mean when you say 'power cycle'?

Cheers

Ok, So I power cycled and restarted holding alt/option. This allowed to select my 'Mac SSD'. Once I selected that it prompted me to instal Yosemite which I agreed to. It then accessed the app store, did an instal and restarted normally.

After restarting I got the output below.

Disk: //dev/disk0 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 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: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 193751224] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 194160864 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 195430400 - 292966400] HPFS/QNX/AUX

Does this look any better now for building the hybrid MBR?

I didn't end up doing items 1 or 2 from your previous post but can still do if necessary. Also I can't tell now which package in particular was giving the error, and no I had not used time machine with SuperDuper.

When I restart and hold down alt/option I can choose from my Mac SSD or it now also gives my the option of 'Recovery 10.10.4'. No option to boot from the Windows partition, it doesn't even show up.