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Trying to Install Win7 under Bootcamp, but bootcamp thinks it's Win 10
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1810558" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>I cracked it. Basically, brute force. When I got the "Cannot install Win10" message, I clicked on the button to make it go away and repeated the "Continue" button in BCA. After a couple of repeated warnings about Win10, it started, let me do the partitioning. BTW, the APFS was a red herring, the drive is actually HFS+. Don't know why I thought it was APFS, but anyway, back to the story. </p><p></p><p>It would NOT let me use the iso for the installation media, mounted or not. Only wanted the DVD. So I put it in and Windows installed and booted. Nice, but not quite there as none of the BootCamp tools were installed, so I had to figure out how to get them installed. Found a KB article that said I could manually install them, so that was good, but I had to get them there in the first place, which turned out to be a bit of a saga. It had no network, couldn't see the hardware, barely functioned. It would NOT read a USB Thumb drive I had formatted to FAT on my other MBP and on which I had put the tools. I had another thumb drive that it would read, so I copied the files from the one it would not read to the one it would using my other MBP. OK, booted into Windows on the BootCamped machine, ran the setup application manually and hey, presto! it all installed. Rebooted into Windows 7, got full screen resolution, network, internet, everything. But the IE8 on Win7 is pretty much unacceptable to every website everywhere, so I installed Opera to get into the web. Will need to find a good browser at some point. </p><p></p><p>Now for some AV software because it is Windows, after all. Fortunately my ISP provides Norton free, so got that going as a download, then installed it and let it do what it does for Windows. Tested that Option-Boot lets me get back to High Sierra, then back to Win7. Seems to be running fine. Will need to do more testing, but at this point it's installed and functional enough to press on.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for all the assistance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1810558, member: 396914"] I cracked it. Basically, brute force. When I got the "Cannot install Win10" message, I clicked on the button to make it go away and repeated the "Continue" button in BCA. After a couple of repeated warnings about Win10, it started, let me do the partitioning. BTW, the APFS was a red herring, the drive is actually HFS+. Don't know why I thought it was APFS, but anyway, back to the story. It would NOT let me use the iso for the installation media, mounted or not. Only wanted the DVD. So I put it in and Windows installed and booted. Nice, but not quite there as none of the BootCamp tools were installed, so I had to figure out how to get them installed. Found a KB article that said I could manually install them, so that was good, but I had to get them there in the first place, which turned out to be a bit of a saga. It had no network, couldn't see the hardware, barely functioned. It would NOT read a USB Thumb drive I had formatted to FAT on my other MBP and on which I had put the tools. I had another thumb drive that it would read, so I copied the files from the one it would not read to the one it would using my other MBP. OK, booted into Windows on the BootCamped machine, ran the setup application manually and hey, presto! it all installed. Rebooted into Windows 7, got full screen resolution, network, internet, everything. But the IE8 on Win7 is pretty much unacceptable to every website everywhere, so I installed Opera to get into the web. Will need to find a good browser at some point. Now for some AV software because it is Windows, after all. Fortunately my ISP provides Norton free, so got that going as a download, then installed it and let it do what it does for Windows. Tested that Option-Boot lets me get back to High Sierra, then back to Win7. Seems to be running fine. Will need to do more testing, but at this point it's installed and functional enough to press on. Thanks for all the assistance. [/QUOTE]
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