Anyone successful with: Upgrading to Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro 17" late 2011 running El Capitan and Bootcamp v6

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Anyone successful with: Upgrading to Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro 17" late 2011 running El Capitan and Bootcamp v6

Hi everybody,

I have a MacBook Pro 17" late 2011 with El Capital OS. (just upgraded to El Capitan a couple of days ago)

Now I want to upgrade my Windows partition from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

According to the Windows 10 Upgrade advisor application the only incompatibility I have is my Bluetooth (Apple Broadcom Bluetooth) and it is advising me to contact/check with Apple/Bootcamp.

So I did. I checked with the Apple Bootcamp pages and I became very worried.

Apparently I can't upgrade to Windows 10 because Bootcamp (Apple) does not support my hardware (late 2011). 😟

I bought my computer in 2012, i.e. three years ago... it is painful to read this news.

My options are:

1) Not to upgrade to Windows 10 on my Windows partition which is not desirable for me on the long run because I have dependent software which I need to run on a Windows 8/10 OS system.

2) Upgrade despite Apple's (Bootcamp) warnings and fix the problems (band aid approach)

3) Buy another partitioning / dual boot solution like Parallels

Has any one tried an upgrade successfully based on a hardware configuration *NOT* listed in the Apple/Bootcamp support list?

Any recipes out there?

Thank you in advance

MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Dec 28, 2015 4:10 AM

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FJDR

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Jan 21, 2016 5:44 PM in response to gabriel1970

Hello:

First to all, I am an architect in Chile and a Mac User since 1998. I hate Windows because I know it. But for business needs I need to run from my MBP 17 early 2011.

Well, how I do this?

First to all I DO NOT USE BOOTCAMP. The only think I do was download the BootCamp drivers for my Mac: Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621.

After that, I download a free Windows 10 ISO installer from Microsoft. Create a DVD installer and bought an USB 2/3 HD drive 1TB and ready. Well, not at all: Windows cannot be installed in a USB drive. NOT TRUE. Download a thirty party software: WintoUSB: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/

But the only nasty thing, YOU NEED A PC. Install WintoUSB and put the DVD on it

Preparation: You need make two partitions in the USB disk, The first, with 300 Gb in FAT32 ( for the EFI BOOT ) and the second for NTFS ( for W10 ).

Then run WintoUSB and follows the instructions. AND VOILA!!!

After you have the USB drive ready, shut down your Mac. Start Up pressing Command + Option + P + R. That reset the PRAM, will restart again and maintain OPTION PRESED.

Will appear a screen with your Mac Drive. Then ATTACH THE USB DRIVE. Will appear a orange drive named EFI BOOT. Click on it and ENTER.

If all works fine you will see a Black screen with the Windows Logo. And follow any thing Windows ask.

Thats all.

Regards

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