MrSputnik

Q: Installing Windows 10 On Macbook Pro Problem

Hey guys, so with everybody jumping on windows 10 on macbooks bandwagon, I decided to join the club myself.

 

After 2 hours of tinkering of setting up the bootable flashdrive - I was finally able to do it and bootcamp assistant finally started doing his job. At the point where it tells me to decide how much I want to allocate to the partition I chose 200gb (out of 500 GB Drive).

 

Shortly after it finished the process, my macbook rebooted and first went to a black/dark gray screen.

 

After doing a bit of research I rebooted the machine, and pressing down option, went into the EFI install mode of windows 10.

 

After skipping the serial step and choosing windows 10 home, it popped out a bunch of drives, none of them were usable - the error read.

 

 

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks".

 

I was wondering what is the best way of bypassing this?

 

I read from someone is to delete the partition created by bootcamp and make one from disk utility? - but if that is the case what format should it be in?

 

Any other suggestions/solutions?

 

Thank you.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Aug 9, 2015 3:51 PM

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  • by BobTheFisherman,

    BobTheFisherman BobTheFisherman Aug 9, 2015 3:56 PM in response to MrSputnik
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    Aug 9, 2015 3:56 PM in response to MrSputnik

    MrSputnik wrote:

     

    Hey guys, so with everybody jumping on windows 10 on macbooks bandwagon, I decided to join the club myself.

     

    After 2 hours of tinkering of setting up the bootable flashdrive - I was finally able to do it and bootcamp assistant finally started doing his job. At the point where it tells me to decide how much I want to allocate to the partition I chose 200gb (out of 500 GB Drive).

     

    Shortly after it finished the process, my macbook rebooted and first went to a black/dark gray screen.

     

    After doing a bit of research I rebooted the machine, and pressing down option, went into the EFI install mode of windows 10.

     

    After skipping the serial step and choosing windows 10 home, it popped out a bunch of drives, none of them were usable - the error read.

     

     

    "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks".

     

    I was wondering what is the best way of bypassing this?

     

    I read from someone is to delete the partition created by bootcamp and make one from disk utility? - but if that is the case what format should it be in?

     

    Any other suggestions/solutions?

     

    Thank you.

    Yes. There are not yet any Boot Camp drivers for Windows 10. Wait until Windows 10 is supported by Boot Camp.

  • by MrSputnik,

    MrSputnik MrSputnik Aug 9, 2015 5:21 PM in response to BobTheFisherman
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    Aug 9, 2015 5:21 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

    Hmmm see the main reason i was looking into doing it in the first place because I saw several youtubers doing without a problem here are two examples:

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xc29uP7AFw

    Mark the Geek -  How To Easily Install Windows 10 on Macbook  

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPGl2kKEek

    Windows Central - Installing Windows 10 on 2015 Macbook Pro with Retina display  

     

     

    Why are they able to do it and not me? What so different about their macbooks?

     

    still looking o.O...

  • by BobTheFisherman,

    BobTheFisherman BobTheFisherman Aug 9, 2015 7:09 PM in response to MrSputnik
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    Aug 9, 2015 7:09 PM in response to MrSputnik

    I don't know what is different about their computers. Ask them. I do know there are no Boot Camp drivers for Windows 10. See here: System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support. Find your computer model/year in the table and you will see what Windows versions are supported.

     

    And because you mentioned "several youtubers" I'll mention the hundreds of posts in this forum saying Windows 10 does not work. Search this forum.

  • by Brian M K,

    Brian M K Brian M K Aug 11, 2015 12:34 AM in response to BobTheFisherman
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    Aug 11, 2015 12:34 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

    I was able to upgrade to win10 from a fully working win7 on my macbook pro. Now the trackpad will not work and the keyboard is flaky. Don't bother with win10, it seems to have a few issues right now.