Installation error with Windows 8.1 and Mavericks' Bootcamp (iMac late 2012)

Hi,

I'm trying to install Windows 8.1 via Bootcamp on my newly Mavericks-upgraded late 2012 iMac. I get to Windows 8.1 installation setup, and after choosing the right partition I get "Can't install to partition etc...".

Anyone knows how to fix this? I made a bootable USB (Corsair 32gb USB3 stick) with Bootcamp, but doesn't work. I also used "Format" for the Bootcamp partition in the Windows 8.1 setup.

Any advice would be great, otherwise I'm enjoying Mavericks. OSX has become a very mature and stable OS, and most of the bad ideas from Lion have been removed.

Thanks!

OK, I managed to install Windows 8.1. First I booted the EFI partition on the bootcamp USB memory stick, and formatted my Windows 8.1 partition again. Then I booted into the regular windows partition on the USB bootcamp memory stick, and installed Windows from there.

However, when I got into Windows, none of the Bootcamp drivers were installed. No bootcamp app is there either. What did I do wrong? Any other way to install the bootcamp drivers for my iMac late 2012 hardware?

First impression of Windows 8 btw., yuk! What a terribly contrived interface. Hopefully I can turn off/hide the tiles menu stuff.

Any good advice? Thanks!

Quackers said:

Open the drive where you installed the Bootcamp drivers and navigate to the Bootcamp folder and click on setup.exe (in Windows). There may also be a separate driver for your graphics/sound in the winpedrivers folder, depending on your Mac's set up.

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Thanks! I've found Windows 8.1 to be rather buggy. Random program crashes, memory read errors, USB errors etc... Makes me wonder if I should have stuck with Windows 7.

cariocap said:

Your nick is suspicious.
Don't waste our time criticizing windows here.
Grow up.

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WTF? Are you serious?
Btw. I found most of my issues was related to the sleep function, which crashes the computer. I still can't use USB3 devices, they are not recognised by Windows 8.1. I can use them through a USB2 hub though, but obviously I only get USB2 speed.
Overall, after my initial scepticism I find Windows 8.1 to be a very nice operating system. The metro page does seem a bit tacked on, and doesn't really make a lot of sense unless you use a touch-based computer/tablet.