MP 7,1 mac pro 7.1

[vance09]

has anyone installed windows 11 on the macpro 7.1,
I did and its running well at a pc speed of 9.4 better than most PC's running windows 11
But all my drivers are windows drivers- graphic card etc, is that ok , could not seem to update any driver
as there was no installer with the bootcamp drivers i downloaded just raw drivers

 

[MisterAndrew]

I think you need to run Boot Camp under macOS and put the drivers onto a flash drive. Then boot Windows and install those. There might be specific drivers in there that you need. The Boot Camp GPU drivers can be downloaded from AMD.

 

[SDAVE]

You don't need to use Bootcamp Utility at all, you can just make a new FAT32 partition and let boot off a TPM2.0 disabled version of Windows 11 installer running from a USB stick and install on that partition.

I personally use a separate NVME drive for Windows to not have it be on the main macOS drive. You can use Brigadier to download bootcamp drivers in Windows.

Also you need to run Bootcamp drivers in Windows to install some system drivers that are necessary to run it smoothly. The GPU drivers can come from the AMD site as mentioned.

 

[H2SO4]

You don't need to use Bootcamp Utility at all, you can just make a new FAT32 partition and let boot off a TPM2.0 disabled version of Windows 11 installer running from a USB stick and install on that partition.

I personally use a separate NVME drive for Windows to not have it be on the main macOS drive. You can use Brigadier to download bootcamp drivers in Windows.

Also you need to run Bootcamp drivers in Windows to install some system drivers that are necessary to run it smoothly. The GPU drivers can come from the AMD site as mentioned.

I much prefer the separate drive option also.
Are you saying that you fitted your NVME, (you mind sharing which one?), and then used Disk Utility to format as FAT under MBR or GUID?

 

[SDAVE]

I much prefer the separate drive option also.
Are you saying that you fitted your NVME, (you mind sharing which one?), and then used Disk Utility to format as FAT under MBR or GUID?

Using Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB that's on a PCIe card (I think it's from Sonnet I forgot which one) with Windows 11 on it. I also have a second 1TB SATA Samsung drive for additional PC game storage. NVME is much cheaper now I would get 2TB if I could

I formatted with FAT32 with GUID and used gpt destroy terminal command and then started the USB Windows installer and let the installer do its thing with formatting it with NTFS or what not.

 

[H2SO4]

Using Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB that's on a PCIe card (I think it's from Sonnet I forgot which one) with Windows 11 on it. I also have a second 1TB SATA Samsung drive for additional PC game storage. NVME is much cheaper now I would get 2TB if I could

I formatted with FAT32 with GUID and used gpt destroy terminal command and then started the USB Windows installer and let the installer do its thing with formatting it with NTFS or what not.

Thankyou. Will bear in mind. Just in the process of deciding how much I want/need a 7,1

 

[profdraper]

Just use Winclone, takes care of everything, eg: can install win 11 from scratch; backup & restore etc. https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/winclone/