The windows support software could not be saved to the elected drive there is not enough space available on the disk

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The windows support software could not be saved to the elected drive there is not enough space available on the disk

Hi,

I have 13"inch Macbook pro with retina display (early 2015).

I use 10.12.3 version of MacOS (Sierra), I'm trying to install Windows10 with Bootcamp 6,1 and i starting the process first i locate the ISO file that in my SSD MacBook and then choose 40GB free space for windows partition and then click install and bootcamp starts downloading windows support software and creates partitions until this error came "The Windows support software could not be saved to the selected drive. There is not enough space available on the disk."

Also i use 16GB USB 2.0 with MS-DOS (FAT32) format.

I've try 10 time's but every time this error will be shown and when i click "OK" the partition will remove and the boot camp quits.

Please help me what can i do for it.

Thanks,

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), macOS Sierra (10.12.3), Boot camp 6.1

Posted on Mar 15, 2017 8:32 AM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Mar 15, 2017 8:53 AM in response to MiladMishmast

If the BC Assistant did not prompt you for a USB, please remove it, run Disk Utility First Aid on your internal disk, and retry BCA again. Do not connect any external storage or hubs, unless BCA requests it.

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Answer 2

Mar 15, 2017 3:39 PM in response to Loner T

Milads-MacBook-Pro:~ milad$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 120.5 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Macintosh HD +120.1 GB disk1

Logical Volume on disk0s2

3D988C1D-EC83-4C79-88F2-604ADA43D27B

Unencrypted

Milads-MacBook-Pro:~ milad$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 40A49AC5-FB01-4F3F-A816-5E9235BE9BF2

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)

Free Space: 12656640 B (12.7 MB)

|

+-< Physical Volume AB26DE3E-7382-4650-A379-F1D3CAEEB640

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 834DC96E-ED1E-4A63-B57B-3355C23FB666

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

Encryption Type: None

|

+-> Logical Volume 3D988C1D-EC83-4C79-88F2-604ADA43D27B

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

Disk: disk1

Status: Online

Size (Total): 120108089344 B (120.1 GB)

Revertible: Yes (no decryption required)

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

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Answer 3

Mar 15, 2017 4:12 PM in response to Loner T

Yes, i was try that before. first that wants to save the file and asked me to locatie where to save and then start download normally but after download it just download a windows support software.dmg and but when i wanna install windows the supporting software download agian and for saving the error will come

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Answer 4

Mar 16, 2017 1:46 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks, i do everything you said,

in windows installation i got GPT vs MBR error, i used gdisk but don't working this result:

Milads-MacBook-Pro:~ milad$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

NOTE: Write test failed with error number 1. It will be impossible to save

changes to this disk's partition table!

You may need to deactivate System Integrity Protection to use this program. See

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-turn-off-the-rootless-in-OS-X-El-Capitan-10-11

for more information.

Partition table scan:

MBR: hybrid

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): i

Partition number (1-4): 4

Partition GUID code: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (Microsoft basic data)

Partition unique GUID: D7E3873E-B888-424C-BF5D-E41D4AE50716

First sector: 160081856 (at 76.3 GiB)

Last sector: 236715991 (at 112.9 GiB)

Partition size: 76634136 sectors (36.5 GiB)

Attribute flags: 0000000000000000

Partition name: ''

Command (? for help): x

Expert command (? for help): n

Expert command (? for help): w

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING

PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y

OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk0.

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Unable to open device '/dev/disk0' for writing! Errno is 1! Aborting write!

Expert command (? for help):

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Answer 5

Loner T

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Mar 16, 2017 6:22 AM in response to MiladMishmast

MiladMishmast wrote:

NOTE: Write test failed with error number 1. It will be impossible to save

changes to this disk's partition table!

You may need to deactivate System Integrity Protection to use this program. See

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-turn-off-the-rootless-in-OS-X-El-Capitan-10-11

for more information.

You need to disable SIP by booting in Local Recovery (Command+R).

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Answer 6

Loner T

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Mar 15, 2017 3:58 PM in response to MiladMishmast

Can you just use the Download.. option and test if you see any issues?

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Answer 7

Mar 15, 2017 11:21 PM in response to Loner T

Thanks,

when i build my own Windows 10 Bootcamp USB Installer and create my windows partition manually after that i open and start bootcamp? or boot my MacBook just like OS X setup.

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Answer 8

Loner T

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Mar 16, 2017 12:16 AM in response to MiladMishmast

Please see Build your own Windows 10 Bootcamp USB Installer . Once you build your USB installer, we can manually partition the internal disk and try to install W10.

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Answer 9

Mar 15, 2017 2:13 PM in response to Loner T

Thank's for your reply.

i did it all you said and i tried again and retry BCA again (took 1 hour) but at the end of download and create partition, that error showed again, i don't know what to do...

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