Boot Camp Assistant thinks (incorrectly) I'm trying to install windows 10 instead of 7

You should not have to check the Download box to install. Since this is a new installation, can you remove the current Windows installation using BC assistant and try it without checking the Download box? If the Download box is required, I need to raise a bug with the BC engineers.

Hi, I am having the exact same issue. Running a mid-2011 iMac with Sierra (10.12.5), Windows 64-bit installer disc. I unchecked the support software download box and checked the install Windows 7 box and I had the same error - that it couldn't install Windows 10. I had the disc inserted the entire time. When I went back and checked both boxes it then worked just fine.

Perhaps this is a bug.

Thanks.

Here it is:

/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_CoreStorage Primary 499.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Primary +498.9 GB disk1

Logical Volume on disk0s2

A12DFC6B-B280-4892-8ACD-FF445F617870

Unlocked Encrypted

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *3.3 GB disk2

1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk2s1

2: Apple_HFS GRMCPRXFRER_DE_DVD 3.3 GB disk2s2

/dev/disk4 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Boot Camp +1.4 GB disk4

The DVD has been burnt incorrectly. It cannot be an Apple Partition Map disk. To burn the ISO, right-click on ISO, select Burn, expand the Burn dialog box, check verify and mount options and use lowest burn rate possible. Verify that it mounts correctly and is CDFS or UDF and then retry BCA.

The programs that need to be used in this process just for limited time because i need to buy them after that.

actually now i realize whats the problem, it looks like the apple BIOS or something like that is upgraded to it's last version and this version doesn't allow to install win7, also when i try to delete the recovery partition to try installing old one, apple internet recovery starts and re-install the same apple bios and it doesn't allow to install windows, so i think i have two choices to install it as separated partition, one of them is to put my hard drive into another mac and only install windows without drivers (i can install the necessary drivers for my mac), the other way i don't know if it will work it's to connect my hard drive to other pc or laptop and install win7 and install OS X in another partition and re-connet the hard drive into the macbook, i'm not sure will the mac read the OS X partition? and if it do that will it read windows partition?

johndon37 wrote:

one of my friends has the same problem that i have, and he tried to connect his hard drive into another macbook and he use bootcamp to install the windows and the process completed without any problems but he didn't use the super drive he used his own external driver.😐

Can your 'friend' help you install Windows on your Mac? Does he have the same model as yours?

Is your Windows installer a mixed 32-bit/64-bit installer? Do you already have a Windows partition created?

We can bypass BC Assistant, if you want to test it that way.

Where did your W7 DVD come from? If it is a retail version which has both 32-bit and 64-bit on it, or is a MSDN multi-version DVD, BC Assistant will not use it.

It comes from a Downloaded Version of Windows 7, 64 Bit I wrote on a empty DVD.

Insert the DVD, and from macOS Terminal, post the output of

diskutil list

Thank you very much! I burnt the DVD again and it worked without any Problems. Sorry that I showed up with such a stupid mistake. 😊

AaronPohl wrote:

Thank you very much! I burnt the DVD again and it worked without any Problems. Sorry that I showed up with such a stupid mistake. 😊

Excellent. There is no need to apologize. 😉

You DVD may be a mixed 32-bit/64-bit W7 installer. You can Download Windows 7 Disc Images (ISO Files) using your W7 Product key, and burn it to a DVD and test.