I've spent the last few hours trying to install Win10 via Boot Camp and now have a few problems:
Furthermore, that's not the end of the problems:
How can failing to install Win10 on another partition affect the startup of OSX? I've even now deleted the "BOOTCAMP" partition.
And how do I get the latest update of Boot Camp Assistant so that it recognises if not Win10 then at least Win8.1?
UPDATE: I thought I'd deleted the "BOOTCAMP" partition but it's still there, and all further attempts to delete it prove fruitless. There's no error message, it's simply always there.
UPDATE 2: Having tried to delete the "BOOTCAMP" volume using the Terminal, it appears that it's the boot volume: "cannot erase the boot volume".
- Boot Camp Assistant not only doesn't offer to do an installation of Win10, it doesn't even offer to install Win8.1 like all the screenshots I've seen suggest should be offered. The Boot Camp Assistant installed on this MacBook (late-2013 running Yosemite and with no updates pending) only offers to help me install Win7.
- I went through this process (Boot Camp thought it was installing Win7 but I gave it a Win10 ISO) and came unstuck when I got to the "which drive partition" option during the Windows installation process: although Disk Utility shows that there's a partition called "BOOTCAMP", the Win10 installation doesn't see this name and instead offers me 4 or 5 different partitions. I chose the one whose size corresponded to what I had configured in BCA. I was then told that an EFI installation cannot be installed on this partition, only a GT partition (or something similar). I couldn't reformat the partition because all the options underneath were greyed-out. Most of the partitions were labelled "Drive 0 partition [1,2, etc.]" and the one I chose was "Drive 1 partition 1".
Furthermore, that's not the end of the problems:
- booting-up the MacBook now takes a lot longer - there's a period of about 10 seconds or more immediately after turning on where the screen is completely blank. Only after this period do I see the OS X progress bar.
How can failing to install Win10 on another partition affect the startup of OSX? I've even now deleted the "BOOTCAMP" partition.
And how do I get the latest update of Boot Camp Assistant so that it recognises if not Win10 then at least Win8.1?
UPDATE: I thought I'd deleted the "BOOTCAMP" partition but it's still there, and all further attempts to delete it prove fruitless. There's no error message, it's simply always there.
UPDATE 2: Having tried to delete the "BOOTCAMP" volume using the Terminal, it appears that it's the boot volume: "cannot erase the boot volume".
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