Mojave - Problems installing Windows 10 with Boot Camp

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Same here.

Thanks to both member Mason and our Admin Dennis for sorting this out. Right now I have no need to install Windows but you never know what lies ahead! :goofy
 
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Thanks Mason for all the hard work to accomplish a solution. I would like to sometime in the future to have the ability to run win on my mac too.
 
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Further and Final Update.

Everything was working fine in both OS X Mojave and Windows 10, however, there wasn't as much free space as I'd like.

Time to do some housekeeping and remove applications I no longer use and have a cull of old files, documents and photos etc. Having started I realised that there was indeed a lot of stuff that could go.

It then occurred that there was nothing on the Mac of any importance that wasn't backed up in at least two places. I have a Time Capsule and two Synology NAS drives. Time for a fresh install of OS X, it would mean reinstalling Windows but now that I knew what to do that would be both quick and easy.

I erased the OS X partition and booted into Internet recovery and did a fresh install, all without errors.

Before doing any setting up of the OS X I decided to install Windows that way if it went sideways I'd not wasted any time. I started Bootcamp pointed it at the Windows 10 ISO and set it going fully expecting it to fail like it did before. It didn't, it installed Windows without any fuss or errors at all.

I can only conclude that although my version of Mojave was the latest it was somehow different to a clean install. My iMac is a 2015 model so the OS has been upgraded several times from older versions of the OS.

It might be worth noting that if every so often a clean install may well just fix some of those irritating problems.
 

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Thanks for the update. I think the reason many of us avoid a clean install is the hassle of digging up serial numbers for apps that require licensing, reinstalling apps, and then adjusting them to the way we had them before and so on. But generally I agree, a clean install can cure many ills and get rid of a lot of unnecessary fluff.
 
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Thanks for the update. I think the reason many of us avoid a clean install is the hassle of digging up serial numbers for apps that require licensing, reinstalling apps, and then adjusting them to the way we had them before and so on. But generally I agree, a clean install can cure many ills and get rid of a lot of unnecessary fluff.

As an Oracle DBA and developer for a Global Telecoms company looking after several thousand servers I learned to be very particular about stuff like that. All serial numbers, licences, login IDs and passwords were/are stored in an encrypted KeePass file. It's free, secure, fully cross platform including android and Apple ios and was the only application approved by the company. I find it invaluable.


I always look at any system/computer and my first question is always "How long would it take me to be up and running if it spontaneously combusts, or more realistically dies?" In my case it's only as long as it would take to get a new one out of the box, powered up and do a full restore from backup. All the important stuff is on NAS drives.

So many people buy a computer and just use it, they have loads of documents and photos running into the thousands and take no backups. Everything in their world is good right up until the moment it doesn't work and the realisation dawns that if it can't be recovered they've lost everything. Even if it survives long enough to be replaced the work involved in transferring their files to a new machine can be frustrating and take forever and they usually forget or miss something only to realise weeks later when it's too late.

What started out as a frustrating exercise in getting my iMac to dual boot has ended up being both interesting and with a Mac that runs like it did out of the box.
 

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Mason, another thing we have in common I guess! :D Grin. I keep all my passwords and things in encrypted text files. Have backups on every system I own and on external drives.
 
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I opted for an 80GB partition and Boot Camp creates this then downloads the Windows Support Files and copies the files across from the ISO. It then fails saying that the Windows Support software could not be saved to the selected drive.

Increase to at least 150 GB.

EDIT: Nevermind I didn't read the rest of the thread.
 
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