I've been dealing with a mis-install of bootcamp windows 10 & thought I'd start relaying the what I'm seeing. Basically, I installed Windows 10 & assumed it would take the digital license just fine. So the resolution is to install windows 8 & upgrade to windows 10...but apparently the iMac pro does not support windows 8 install. This will be tricky if possible at all.
Update:
I confirmed that while the iMac Pro will not normally allow installing windows 7 or 8, I did manage to succeed. There are some serious issues, though. Follow the instructions below to enable Windows 8 installations. I have not found a method for windows 7, if anyone does, please reply here & I will update this. Also, because of the drivers not being available for the iMac Pro hardware, you NEED AN EXTERNAL ETHERNET OR WIFI ADAPTER. You can get the USB ports working, but both the built in ethernet & wifi cards have no drivers that work with windows 8...I have tried everything.
I found a way to get it to recognize windows 8 & am trying to install it now.:
1) make a copy of bootcamp assistant
2) show contents of the copied bootcamp assistant
3) Go into contents then edit info.plist with something like text wrangler
4) add the following to SupportNonWindows10Models
<string>MacPro5,1</string>
5) run bootcamp assistant
I ended up activating through parallels bootcamp targeting & using that network. I could not update through parallels, but could use the ISO method to do so. I ended up doing a clean install over windows 8 once 8 was activated. That went fine & activated successfully on its own because it was already part of the free upgrade program. I did try the free upgrade through Parallels first to make sure the installation was reported to windows as part of my digital Microsoft accounts. After I activated 8, I upgraded my login to become a Microsoft account login vs the local login. This is probably required to make it work correctly.
Update:
I confirmed that while the iMac Pro will not normally allow installing windows 7 or 8, I did manage to succeed. There are some serious issues, though. Follow the instructions below to enable Windows 8 installations. I have not found a method for windows 7, if anyone does, please reply here & I will update this. Also, because of the drivers not being available for the iMac Pro hardware, you NEED AN EXTERNAL ETHERNET OR WIFI ADAPTER. You can get the USB ports working, but both the built in ethernet & wifi cards have no drivers that work with windows 8...I have tried everything.
I found a way to get it to recognize windows 8 & am trying to install it now.:
1) make a copy of bootcamp assistant
2) show contents of the copied bootcamp assistant
3) Go into contents then edit info.plist with something like text wrangler
4) add the following to SupportNonWindows10Models
<string>MacPro5,1</string>
5) run bootcamp assistant
I ended up activating through parallels bootcamp targeting & using that network. I could not update through parallels, but could use the ISO method to do so. I ended up doing a clean install over windows 8 once 8 was activated. That went fine & activated successfully on its own because it was already part of the free upgrade program. I did try the free upgrade through Parallels first to make sure the installation was reported to windows as part of my digital Microsoft accounts. After I activated 8, I upgraded my login to become a Microsoft account login vs the local login. This is probably required to make it work correctly.
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