Alright here is my situation. I current have a windows 8.1 iso and I wanted to bootcamp. Some person at my school said that getting windows on my macbook would not be as simple and that bootcamping wont work. Is this guy a complete idiot or will getting windows on my macbook be hard and not as simple as just running bootcamp.
I ran bootcamp a few hours ago and its been stuck at downloading windows support software for about 2 hours. I searched on google and found out that you can manually put the drivers on the usb and make the process go faster. Here is the link:https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638?locale=en_US
There was three files when I unzipped. $WinPEDriver$, AutoUnattend.xml, and Bootcamp. Two folders and the xml file. I was told by a fellow from reddit to format my usb to make it fat format and Master Boot Record. I did not see any option for master boot record on disk utilities so I just formatted it as FAT. I asked the guy on reddit wouldn't the files I put on my usb just be deleted when bootcamp formats my usb. He did not reply. Skipping the Master Boot Record step, I moved all three files into the formatted usb and relaunched bootcamp.
I had all three options checked because no one said otherwise. I started bootcamp. The usb was formatted. The three files were gone. Now my bootcamp had been copying windows files. Until suddenly right the **** now it said an error occurred downloading windows files.
I could not get windows on my mac for a days due to idiots at my school and me personally hate the osx environment and was forced to get this mac by school policies. (Not trying to be rude but I am a bit cranky so can you all please for the love of god dont comment on how a school can do this. Its more complex than you think and dont say anything if you cannot help me)
Sorry for being rude. I am a tad salty.
Thank you
I ran bootcamp a few hours ago and its been stuck at downloading windows support software for about 2 hours. I searched on google and found out that you can manually put the drivers on the usb and make the process go faster. Here is the link:https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638?locale=en_US
There was three files when I unzipped. $WinPEDriver$, AutoUnattend.xml, and Bootcamp. Two folders and the xml file. I was told by a fellow from reddit to format my usb to make it fat format and Master Boot Record. I did not see any option for master boot record on disk utilities so I just formatted it as FAT. I asked the guy on reddit wouldn't the files I put on my usb just be deleted when bootcamp formats my usb. He did not reply. Skipping the Master Boot Record step, I moved all three files into the formatted usb and relaunched bootcamp.
I had all three options checked because no one said otherwise. I started bootcamp. The usb was formatted. The three files were gone. Now my bootcamp had been copying windows files. Until suddenly right the **** now it said an error occurred downloading windows files.
I could not get windows on my mac for a days due to idiots at my school and me personally hate the osx environment and was forced to get this mac by school policies. (Not trying to be rude but I am a bit cranky so can you all please for the love of god dont comment on how a school can do this. Its more complex than you think and dont say anything if you cannot help me)
Sorry for being rude. I am a tad salty.
Thank you