Bootcamp assistant not working

Thanks Loner T!

Will there be any other issues/limitations once I get the Optical Drive (CD/DVD drive)? My iMac has an internal Optical Drive (CD/DVD drive) but apparently its not working. Or how to perform a Hardware test on my actual internal optical drive to see if its working?

I have inserted DVD's and none of them works. The last time the DVD/cd drive worked was probably 2 years ago, then i bought a new mac and this old imac never got used. Now i want to install Windows 7 home premium 64 and i got and iso file. I've been trying for days with no luck with differente options that I have found over the internet. Options that allows to install Windows 7 without DVD and/or witout Bootcamp. None of them have worked so far. A couple of days back I rolled back to Yosemite from El Capitan and I had the same problem. I was trying to go back to the OSX that I had 2 or so yeyars ago when the DVD/CD was working. I had no luck with Yosemite and now im back on El Capitan. So apparently the only solution is to buy an external DVD/CD drive? I dont wnat to make that investment and find out that it dosent work either.

Nope. I did that yesterday with no luck. This step didn't work:

Step 4 Clone the VMware installation files into the BOOTCAMP partition

1. Get Winclone / I Bought it.

2. Start Winclone and now you can Clone the Windows Drive you just mounted to your BOOTCAMP partition selecting Restore

Winclone gives this error message.

You can check my comment at the end of that thread.

Loner T,

Not sure if I need to post this info?

1. Please download GPT Fdisk - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ .

Done and installed

2. Post the output of the following commands.

diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 150.4 GB disk0s3

3: DOS_FAT_32 BOOTCAMP 349.5 GB disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *62.8 GB disk1

1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 62.8 GB disk1s1

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]

Signature: 0x0

Starting Ending

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

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

1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

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

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168

gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR not found at sector 0

start size index contents

0 976773168

3. If you are using El Capitan, we also need to disable SIP.

csrutil is disabled.

After doing all the above Winclon still refuses to clone the mounted Windows 7 into BOOTCAMP.

Is the order correct?

I have upgraded progressively since I bought this iMac in 2010 via Apple, no other way, to El Capitan 10.11.2 that I have now. Yesterday I rolled back to the most old version that I had in my time capsule and it was Yosemite 10.10. Then again upgraded via App store to el Capitan today.

So basically, all the upgrades have come from Apple.

My DVD hardware have been broken since 2012 at least so I cannot remember any systems upgrades via DVD.

Yes, all important files are in Time Machine so I don't have worries loosing anything.

Did erase the disk. Below is the result. Would this work now?: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20584499#post20584499

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS HQII 499.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3