Steps to install W10 on a old unsupported mac (i did it on 3 macs) : 1) Use Bootcamp to install W7. (Don t install apple bootcamp drivers). 2) Inside W7 select the option "UPGRADE TO W10" (takes about another hour) 3) Now you have W10, but if you want a clean version go to "Recovery " - "Reset this PC" - "Remove Everything". (Takes another half hour) 4) Take Bootcamp drivers from the bootcamp package (unzip em manually 1 by 1)
I appreciate you showing the parts where everything goes wrong because that's what a lot of people experience. Most people run into some kind of issue and other RUclipsrs with staged videos where everything turns out perfect (after 6 tries behind the scenes that didn't make the video) are not much help, especially when they don't even link to the articles that they used to solve the issues.
I'm having an impossible time installing Windows 10 on my mid 2010 white MacBook that has Mojave from Dosdude1. The third option to install Windows 10 is greyed out.
Lucas Brito I managed to get it working briefly by installing a very very specific version of Windows 10. It’s not reliable at all though. It will work for like a day then all of a sudden stop working. I reinstalled it twice and ran into the same issue. At this point it’s not worth it, I have an iMac that can dual boot and play games just fine.
@@cncfan Oh. I was trying to install Windows 7, tho. But I couldn't do that due to Mojave and the Windows 7 option doesn't appear at all. I'll try installing by DVD.
8:08. Some updates for macOS contain firmware updates. That beep sound indicates that it’s starting the process, and the screen that you though was ‘Safe Mode’ is actually the firmware update progress screen.
First four minutes of the video exactly mirror my experience with this process as I tried it with very little outside information. Except I accidentally erased my hard drive in the windows installer.
I had some of the same issues as you all did. But, Windows 7 is running fine for the person I did install for. Hopefully, you all get that GPU installed soon. That's what I am waiting for. (:
You cannot install Windows 10 in EFI mode on the 2011 iMac, only Legacy mode. This explains why you are having BSOD and enabling devices. Went through the same issues on my 2011 iMac. In EFI mode the iMac won't let you install audio drivers, you have no backlight control and other issues waking from sleep. Also the Beep followed the progress bar was a firmware update. Which is good because you won't be able to if you replace the graphics card.
@@Geo25rey 2015 and newer Macs can Boot both EFI and Legacy. However with the new APFS rollout Apple was making some users with 2tb+ hard drives uninstall EFI windows partitions due to fusion/APFS issues.
highvoltage12v did you install windows 10 on 2011 iMac? I just phoned apple tech support before I started, they said bootcamp does not support under 2012 models as overloading issues..! Did you manage successfully to do this or would you recommend windows 7? Do you have any suggestions for me s I would really like to run windows 10 with no issues..!
@@couturefit123 I got it working on a 2011 iMac. You need a windows 10 bootable dvd that you can create yourself using a windows 10 iso and power ISO software to burn the image on top a blank dvd. Use diskpart to clean and covert the fixed driver to mbr mode from efi mode. Then install windows 10 using the optical drive that has the windows 10 dvd. Once installed then download Bootcamp for windows and install to update the drivers. That should do the trick.
I tried installing W10 through bootcamp first, too, but failed several attempts. After attempting the same thing as y’all did, I ended up doing an install of W7 first, through an install disc I burned myself. Then, after having W7 installed, I used a W10 install USB to go to Windows 10. Quite a long workaround, but better than having to partition, repartitioning, and going through the hassle of installing without boot camp.
To skip installing Windows 7 and then upgrading to Windows 10 I got some words of advice for you "Hybrid GPT/MBR", that's the partition scheme you need(and want). You install Windows 10 in MBR mode(which is the same thing the bootcamp assistant does when installing Windows 7) and MacOS is still gonna be happy using GPT partition scheme. PS: You loose audio, video output and thunderbolt capabilities just by using Windows 10 in UEFI mode, because for some reason the PCI device tree is different when those macs boot in UEFI and MBR.
OCEVN I used linux for that but you can take a look at this answer in Apple stack exange. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/236346/create-hybrid-mbr-gpt-just-like-bootcamp-assistant-does/236544
Impressive. To get 10 installed on my 2008 Mac Pro I had to slip stream the drivers into Windows 8 install, burn custom disk, and then upgrade to 10. This is harder to do with straight 10 install, but once it's up it works great.
A way to fix the issue you had with the partition scheme is also fixable (if you wish to erase all other OS) is just open the Windows Installer and when it allows you to select / partition / etc.. you just delete all partitions then click format and it will then let you click next through to the next step. I just went through this today.
The Windows 10 installation procedure is a pain in the butt even on PCs. It took me many hours to get it working on a previously bricked PC. You'd thin it would be as easy as creating a bootable USB stick and going from there but it ain't. Ran into the EFI problem too and it still has issues shutting down properly and I can't for the life of me figure out why.
I have an IMac 27 2011 and I have Bootcamp Windows 10 on the machine alongside High Sierra. Never try to install Windows 10 directly though. The trick is to install Windows 8.1 through Bootcamp with Bootcamp drivers. It works well. After that upgrade to Windows 10. Some of the earlier W10 releases crashed from time to time when restarting etc. However 1803 and 1809 (October release) works really great.
Billy Reksodikromo yes absolutely, as long as the installation follows Bootcamp standard as a bios installation/legacy boot sound always works. When trying to tamper and thinking a modern EFI style boot will work, then no sound. Just make sure legacy boot according to Bootcamp is used and it will work well.
Hello Guys, yes installing win10 on a 2011 iMac is tricky. First copy the bootcamp Version from Programs to your Desktop. Then Open it with showing Content and Open the .plist with texteditor After that remove pre from preusb Part in the file and save. After that start bootcamp from desktop now it should work to prepare a USB Stick. If not open the plist again and remove your iMac 2011 from the windows 10 Part prohibit list. You will find it in there. Now prepare the usb stick with your win10 iso. Every version works, even the newest one from december 2019. Prepare after that the partitions as you like. Reboot if you like and install win10. It may work or crash doesn‘t matter. If you encounter problems like cannot install on this disk blablabla ignore it and just delete the bootcamp partition with the partition tool from windows. Now you can install windows in the free space. Go on with the installation again it may crash or not when you are through with the installation Boot into mac os while holding the optionkey. Now this was just the warmup 😉 Get yourself a copy of winclone 7 full version trial will not work and 8 is not working in High Sierra. Make an image with winclone from your bootcamp partition. After that make a package installer with your bootcamp image with the make legacy bios option. If you encounter any problems with that you need to boot Mac OS again with the command + r key and start recovery mode. Don‘t go further open the terminal and type csrutil disable. This will prevent Mac OS from interfering with your tricky image and partition tinkering. (Don’t forget if you are through with your installation to go back to recovery mode and enable it again in terminal with csrutil enable. ) Now boot back again in Mac OS. It‘s better to not trust the bootmanager from mac to always bring you back to your Mac booting the normal way. So always use the option/alt key to choose yourself what you want to boot! Now we use the package installer we created with winclone. Be careful to choose the right partition while recover your altered image. So check twice that you only recover to the bootcamp partition. If out of any reason the bootcamp partition is not visible in Mac os just activate it with your normal diskmanager from High Sierra. Then it should be available again in winclone. After winclone has done it‘s magic you reboot again with the alt/option key and choose your windows partition. Now you can see the difference. Before it was named Windows UEFI now it only shows up as windows or bootcamp. This was the biggest step to achieve, because now you can boot windows in legacy bios mode and windows 10 can now access the hardware in the right manner and the UEFI layer will not interfere with windows 10 probing the hardware and install the right drivers. If you are lucky it will just work. But trust me 9 out of 10 tries it will not 😉. Immediately Pressing f8 while booting brings you to the repair menu. There choose advanced system repair options and boot in safe mode with networking. Again if you are lucky it will repair the bootsector to legacy bios and with the next boot it will work and you can start windows 10 updates. Try to get bootcamp for late 2013 iMacs there are sources in the internet with direct downloads to it. You will need that because you will need the proper drivers. Install it and reboot. Always boot with alt/option key pressed you never know which bootdisk is the chosen one at that specific moment. So keep the choice to your will 😉 Get the latest drivers for legacy AMD Cards from bootcampdrivers and install them. Read the instruction thouroughly and obey it! Be happy with a fully functional windows 10 iMac. So what can go wrong? 1)Apple mouse or keyboard not working while installation Use usb mouse and keyboard. 2) SSD Drive driver not found by. Windows 10 while booting after conversion to legacy bios. This is caused by too old or to young version by bootcamp because you need all the drivers in $Winpedrivers$ folder from bootcamp software from apple. That you have the right version of the bootcamp drivers you can see very easy through the amount of winpepackages in that folder of your prepared usb bootstick for windows. Open it and look into the $winpedrivers$ folder. There you should see about 7-10 different packages. The one that is important is the AppleSSD64 package. If these are missing you need another package and just copy over the whole winpedrivers folder to your windows installer bootstick. Now comes the real advanced part. Boot with r again but this time to the Windows usb stick. Let it start the installation until you see the the first menu for installation. Now press shift and F10 or F11 key this will start the windows 10 command shell/terminal At this point maybe 99% of you will just quit 😉 Now you should have at least knowledge of the root commands of windows. You need to find out which disk is which. So x: is normally the usb stick C: could be the virtual installation environment D: could be your actual installed windows bootcamp. How to determine which is which? Change in the prompt to the different drives whith just entering c: or d: or x: So you have to orient yourself with going through the different drives and write down which is which Easy to find is your installed bootcamp. Because when you cd into the windows/users folder you should the a folder with the name you created while installation as user. So this might be c: or d: Next we need to find the Drive with the $winpedrivers$ folder. From there we get our needed drivers. So you now might be clear => c: might be bootcamp => d: might be where the winpedrivers are Now we inject the missing bootcampdrivers into our existing windows installation C:\Windows\system32\dism /Image:D:\ /Add-Driver /driver:c:\$WinPEDriver$ /recurse If it doesn‘t work you might need to exchange C: with D: and viceversa. It will show some faults and some drivers which were installed during that process. Just let‘s do it‘s magic. When it‘s finished you should be able to boot into windows (remember always keep the power and use the alt/option key while rebooting otherwise you may boot again in Mac OS X) If not then do one time more the trick with directly pressing f8 after you picked your windows from the Bootscreen. You need to do that immediately otherwise it will not go to the repair menu of windows 10 and choose once more advanced options and boot into safety mode with network. After that it should finally work totally stable with audio Bluetooth camera. I‘m just playing on my mid 2011 iMac Gothic 3 with community patch without any problems. OK I understand that the whole procedure will be for many too much or too complicated but as always „no pain no gain“ With my mid 2012 13 inch MacBook Pro it is very easy. Just install Catalina with dosdude patcher and use the 6.x Bootcamp from that. It will just work. For the Late 2011 15inch MacBook Pro with AMD it‘s unfortunately the same hassle as with the 27 inch iMac from mid 2011! So you need to make the same Long annoying and complicated procedure as above described. Just one disclaimer, only do/try that with a not productive system or a reliable and very recent backup. Anytime something could go wrong and you might need to reinstall your iMac 2011 or MacBook Pro 15 inch 2011 through recovery mode and start all over again. Cheers René
Just fixed an old iMac 2009 I was given a few months ago by installing Windows 11. My USB kept on fucking itself up with Windows 10 but Windows 11 had no issues with it. I couldn’t reinstall MacOS as the iMac would get into a kernel panic and got stuck every time.
What I have done in this situation is, yes you need a DVD drive, but use the boot camp assistant in macos. get two DVDs, one with windows 7 and the other 10. keep the 7 DVD in there during the GUI bootcamp part in macos. the last time it prompts you for admin credentials, enter them but then quickly eject the 7 disk and put in the 10. it will reboot and load whatever version of windows is on the disk.
The only problem which i have is, I can't install windows from USB Pendrive on my iMac 27 late 2011. Everysingle time when I install windows and try instal bootcamp driver my computer start crashing straight away. (BSOD) but when i install windows from DVD disc, everything works just fine.. This is so wired and I don't know where is the problem.
you can create a partition by terminal and format it as *NTFS* or use any thirparty to create a partition and make sure it is formated as *NTFS* then copy the iso content of the windows 10 to the partition and restart your mac while holding *alt/option*.in this case you mac will boot normally to the windows installer from the created pariton just click next and install the windows (no need to format the drive,windows will install normally because the partition schematic is *NTFS* )
to solve the (BSOD) use gpedit.smc to prevent windows 10 from automatically update intel graphics so go to device manager-----view>show hidden devcies---display and uninstall the intel graphic prevent gpedit.smc (use google for this on how to prevent drivers from update from group policy, its lengthy).then restart normally no ,ore BSOD ....64.sys
Hi Luke, I have a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro. I had the audio issue when I tried to install Bootcamp on my MBP. At first I thought it was just a bad installation but it did it again. My MBP was on El Capitan. After hours of going nowhere, I updated it to High Sierra and surprinsingly, I tried again with Bootcamp and everything worked fine. This week I upgraded to 16 GB and a new SSD, I installed Mojave and wanted to install Bootcamp again. It did the same issue with the audio drivers and all the MacOS updates were installed. This time, on the usb key it installed Bootcamp, once I was in Windows, the Windows usb key had all the drivers on it and I found the Cirrus audio one and installed it manually and it worked. Doing my installs, I tried to install Windows many times without Bootcamp, just creating a partition and booting from the usb key but there's always something that screwed up doing that like the famous GPT and MBR that had me going nuts. After all those tries, my MBP mid-2012 with 16 GB and a 240 GB SSD runs flawlesly Windows 10 and Mojave!
Thanks guys!! Thank you for going through the trouble. The only other way I found required compilers, uh me no so good at dat. I picked up a Macbook Pro 8,3 early 2011 for less than $200 with an SSD big enough for me, and a newer battery. The sodimm closest to the key board is no good, otherwise all seems good. I also have 2 iMacs, Apple actually has the driver pack available for download. The drive pack for the newer iMacs was different than the one for the older MBP. On all 3 machines, I booted with WinX USB by holding option. I used WinX install to completely erase SSD. Installed WinX, then ran setup included in bootcamp driver pack from apple. It installed bootcamp control panel for keyboard extras, drivers*, and apple software update. Everything worked on the iMacs perfectly. *the MBP crashed on startup after restart from driver pack install. Started over, except one by one installed drivers from driver pack, with no bootcamp and no audio, ghost display listed in settings>display. Even got WinXI to the same point, but your solution just might be what might work for me as bootcamp, in my OSX not only listed win7, but win8 as well. I have no Win7 disk, but do have a Win8 Pro Retail disk with key. Wish me luck. Cheers!!
It is same for the macbook pros. I have a macbook pro late 2011 and in order to get 27" led cinema display working, first I needed to install windows 7 by using bootcamp, and then, I had to update it to windows 10. In win10, then by using compatibility settings, I installed bootcamp drivers.
@@takemeaway6810 First, I have installed Macos x Lion, then, I have installed win7 (I have installation CD) by using BootCamp manager. Last step was to update win7 to win10. I hope it is clear.
Currently upgraded my wife’s MacBook Pro mid 2012 to a 120gb ssd and soon gonna be upgrading to 8gb of ram. You’re videos are really motivating. Haha now I just wanna tinker with this. Was trying to possibly sell it. She also wants an iMac so I may just go the used and upgrade route. Boggles my mind on spending nearly $4k on a new one somethjng she definitely wouldn’t use to it’s full capacity.
I am so happy to find this video! It validated the hours I spent yesterday trying to do the same thing. OK, so I'm really trying to put Windows 11. It came up to the Windows 11 Desktop (and I should have taken a picture!), then it crashed. After looking at the error messages, it is the AMD Radeon Graphics. Now off to figure out how to fix this issue. Thanks for all you do.
Why didn’t you just edit the p-list package scripts for the Boot Camp Assistant on MacOS? They’re are a few videos on it, and it’s actually how I installed Windows 10 on my 2010 MacBook. Also, will you be flashing the graphics card that you will be putting in the iMac?
I have an old Imac late 2009 with intel core 2 duo, 16gb ram and ssd. I used Bootcamp to install windows 7 32 bit (licensed) with full support of bandcamp drivers. I upgrated to win 10 32 bit with some steps I found on the web and after one crash, the second time I upgrated everything work, even the full bootcamp functions with keyboard, magic mouse/trackpad, integrated graphic, isight, bluetooth controller ecc ecc. Now I have dual OS with High Sierra (the latest macOS supported) and Win 10 32 bit (latest update 22H2)
Man, you guys really went through a lot. I'll leave this here in case anyone needs it. I previously had aa huge sort of 2006-2008 MacBook and MacBook Pro's that either A. Supported up to Vista or B. Supported up to 7, and I installed Windows 10 on all of them (granted, the 2006's were hot trash on W10). What you need to do (for future reference): 1. Open Boot Camp Assistant on your OS X partition 2. Check off everything except for 'Install or Remove Windows 7' 3. It will most likely ask for your install disc or drive *that has the Windows installer ready to install*, connect that, in my experience it doesn't check for the Windows version and it'll go right ahead. 4. Choose the size of the Windows Partition, and wallah it partitioned. *NOTICE, YOU SHOULD HAVE AN INSTALL OS X SNOW LEOPARD DVD, IT CONTAINS WINDOWS DRIVERS IN IT* 5. Once you install, insert your Install OS X Snow Leopard disc in your Mac WHILE IT IS IN WINDOWS, NOT MAC. 6. It should work from then on. Sorry if what i said was confusing, i was n a rush, if you need any clarifications, reply here. Thanks and good luck to whoever needed my guide!!!
What I did for my 2009 MacBook pro was install windows 7 from boot camp, Install the driver package that Bootcamp gives you, then used a windows 10 installer to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10.
I just put in a fresh drive, booted from my USB, and got the support software on my MacBook, and I stalled it on the iMac with a USB keyboard and mouse. Worked! Give it a try.
The problem is not radeon graphic. Its a graphic chip on cpu. you need to disable driver installation in safe mode in gpedit. Ive got mine to work with no crashes.
I had so many problems with this iMac, I bought it for $200 with faulty GPU, after a few times in the OVEN (i'm actually serious) somehow it works for like a year already but same thing with the windows, works for a minute and then it's just getting crashed :/
I think you ran into the Windows Error 12. Edit: The Bootcamp setup/preparation basically provides correct basics/driver files between the Mac and Windows 7. When upgrading, the Win 10 instructions are compatible because the code then do the correct writes and turning switches on the hardware which do not trigger a shorted circuit.
On older Macs I usually grab an old Win 7 ISO on a DVD (external Apple DVD drive should work too) and install in Legacy BIOS Mode. Then I install all Bootcamp Drivers and finally upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool (direct upgrade, I do not create an install medium). Works nearly every time.
Windows finding drivers is not something I like because it installs out of date drivers all the time and does not allow anyone to manually re-install the drivers without disabling the automatic driver downloads through windows update which you can have to do with the display driver uninstaller
I just installed it today. I tried to create installation media from linux and erased my hard drive, but it didn't work because of a corrupt file on the installation media. So I decided to create windows 10 installation media by using a computer that had windows 11. I tried using the usb this time and it worked. But windows 10 wouldn't get past the logo so I just spammed f11 till windows decided to actually load. I got onto the setup, but when I was almost done, I got a bsod. I restarted my imac but when I got onto the setup, I got another bsod. So I decided to boot the imac up again and try to spam f11 again. I got onto automatic repair and that somehow fixed my bsod issue. I finished the setup and now I have windows 10 on a 2011 imac. It currently has no issues and I'm hoping it doesn't for a while. Edit: I didn't use bootcamp at all obviously because linux does not have bootcamp. Which meant that I didn't have the supported apple drivers.
for anyone still trying this all can recommend is to uninstall the gpu drivers on windows 7 then update to windows 10 from there windows should be able to download amd optimized drivers for the system which will be stable (for stock gpu users) Edit: to uninstall the gpu drivers use DDU and make sure to set it to only uninstall gpu drivers and not audio as well
On my 2008 iMac I had to install windows 7 by taking out the hard drive and loading the installer files onto a separate partition then put the hard drive back in. For some reason it wouldn't detect any windows 7 install media from USB or DVD. I'm sure there's an easier way to get it to work and i think it had something to do with BIOS/EFI stuff.
You need to download a third party tool like rufus plus the windows iso and flash it as uefi and mbr mode or only mbr in order to install it on this mac via usb drive.....
I’m fairly sure in installed Windows 10 on a 2009 21” iMac and it was all fully functional in the end. Can’t remember what I did exactly...... I couldn’t do it with a USB installer - I had to put the optical drive back in - copy the Windows 10 Install Media to a CD 💿 and then install everything - then put take out my CD drive and put my secondary HDD back in.
I literally just took a 2,5" hard drive, with a Win10 installation on it that was installed on an old AMD system, and screwed it in a 2008 macbook. Much to my surprise it just booted up, recognized the Wifi adapter and started downloading the appropriate drivers!
2010 27" imac here, triple-booting mavericks/w7/xp. the thing I had to do was put xp in the 'end' partition. I used a thing called EFI manager to set the partitions up initially.
if you want to install windows 10 whitout bootcamp you have to convert partition to gpt whit disk part when you boot the thumdrive you get option to repair your windows 10 click on that than you get more options select command prompt typ: disk part list disk than you see all disks you have type select disk 0 or 1 type convert gpt and you are done
I did this...installed win 7, then simply upgraded. Used boot camp only for win 7...did so thru El Capitan. Any newer Mac OS messes up like yours. Mavericks doesn’t let boot camp work with win 10. El Capitan let me do it. It’s like apple doesn’t want you to do this...forget Sierra or high Sierra. Apple didn’t include boot camp for win 10 for that iMac...also a friend did it thu Lion!..no issues.
I manage to install windows 10 on a iMac 2011 27" with all components working. It took me 3 days to work it out. I didn't use windows 7 and I didn't need to take the drive out of the iMac. I be happy to explain if you need.
@@tanza1187 You need to install windows 10 using legacy mode not gpt mode. Sound will not work on efi/gpt mode. There are a few ways to do this but for me i was comfortable in creating a windows 10 install disk and not usb. Boot from the optical drive and use diskpart to change the the intenal drive from gpt to mbr then install windows 10. see link for help using dispart conversion tool for gpt to mbr ruclips.net/video/6x1HCMZpKec/видео.html
Well i have another type of issue here.On a late 2009 27" iMac i changed the .plist file so it can run win10 from usb.Detects only efi disk i did install up to the point which says finishing up installation and...boom "couldd not complete installation" warning.Fails every time.I did everything,even tried commands but no luck.
What I did was put Windows 7 on the computer and then went to windows 8.1 by opening the ISO and extracted all the contents for windows 8.1 and upgraded then after that I’m downloading Windows 10 and doing the same thing extracting all the contents out of windows, 10 and upgrading that way to see if it’ll upgrade to windows 10 and if it does I will have a iMac 2011 with windows 10 or 11 on this computer you can use Rufus and make a MBR partition and then extract all the contents of that drive and try it that way to get it on the computer. I will let you know how my findings of getting windows 10 or 11 on this computer came out.
If you clone a Windows 10 Image in CSM with the SSD on MBR you dont have the sound or video issues. I was too having the same headaches, once I do that instead of UEFI GPT, all works like a charm. It has something to do with the iMac BIOS that initializes the firmware drivers in UEFI mode.
all you had to do is install the bootcamp windows app and then run it . once that is done the display driver will have to be re updated through the driver properties function. thats how i did it anyway.
That strange bit was a bios update! The sound will not work. I already tried a lot of different sources and drivers and there is no way, at least for mine. (i have almost the same machine, same graphics card, 32 gb ram and processor is an i5 2500S. I use the Standard HDD as windows and SSD as OSX. For the sound, i use and usb stick sound card, a Sony 5.1 headphone. What i want to see is that Nvidia 980M MXM working. That one is for sure the most important for me. Than you!
In Win10 with an Appple keyboard you can activate num lock in the on-screen keyboard. Shortcut is cmnd+ctrl+o. I can't buy a 27" UHD screen for $200, but I can buy a used iMac for less. Cheers!!
hiya luke i have an imac 21.5 2011 and i found upgrading to windows 10 had the same issue the graphics card after some searching i found the only way i could get 10 on my machine was to find the first edition of win 10 or the oldest version one i found was the 1511 build and it went on and found everything but the bluetooth which is not really needed for me so that build may help with the graphics card on your mac but bluetooth will be next to find a driver that works
All I did was install windows 7 using boot camp on my old MacBook 7.1 after installing the OS I installed bootcamp in windows for the drivers then just upgrade to Windows 10 via USB inside windows 7 instead of a clean install and worked like a charm
I did the W10 install I think on a 08 or 09 iMac but non the less, I had to go from windows 7 to windows 10 and then decided to do a clean install. I just downloaded the Bootcamp drivers from Apple them selves and then Everything worked great on it. But this was 3 years ago I don’t know if there’s anything different now
So I have a 2011 21.5" iMac, and I have replaced the 500GB HDD with a SSD that a friend gave me that came from an old laptop that was running Windows 10. When the computer starts up, the speakers make sound and the screen stays white for a few minutes then Windows 10 begins to boot. After windows 10 loads, the speakers stop working. I've try to update the drivers but it says they're running the latest drivers. Is there something I can do to fix it? Also, how can I install macOS on the new SSD?
I appreciate the amount of effort put into this project of upgrading this iMac. In this video it looks painful to upgrade to Windows 10 on this iMac. I am excited to see and learn from your upgrading the graphics card in the next video. What version of macOS does this iMac limit at ?
Have you tried to download the bootcamp drivers for that model mac from the apple website? That seems to work the best when I do it. The bootcamp drivers will install from Windows. You probably will have to install Windows 7 and upgrade it.
I had the same issue with mine after upgrading from a base install windows 7 to windows 10 there was no sound but yet everything was showing installed and working and I noticed the optical audio output was enabled and the headphone jack worked fine. I took your tip of installing the windows 7 drivers first but instead of starting again I uninstalled all the audio devices and put the package exe installer for boot camp in compatibility mode for windows 7 and it forced it to install because it refused to install in windows 10 else. After that I had sound from the speakers !!
Dunno why you were getting issues with efi boot as I have a 2017 5k imac but I use windows bootcamped to an external drive solution (cos limited internal storage!)and I get no issues...
Evertything is difficult if you have no clue. Btw, it is not a BIOS setting and that restriction that forces you to install from DVD on computers that were delivered with a DVD drive can be circumvented. (No, it has nothing to do with the partition scheme. Btw, you can not install Mac OS trough USB on those computers either.) You just have to know what and where you have to edit out.
Hey, FYI (if no one mentioned it), that beep and progress bar was a firmware update that Apple snuck in the software update. It’s (slightly) possible that it may have contributed to some issues installing windows? 😱😜👍🏽
Interesting issues. I wonder if the upgrade method will help me get the audio and bootcamp drivers working on my 2009 mac pro with an upgraded 2010 CPU tray and firmware. Mojave's bootcamp claims not to support this computer, so I did what you did at the start of the video and installed windows 10 directly from a flash drive, then grabbed the bootcamp drivers from Apple's website. Unfortunately, they wouldn't install for some reason. I then ran msiexec /i, pointing it to the bootcamp installer and it installed fine, but can't see my Mojave partition, which is APFS of course. For the record, if anybody has any comments (and they'd be really helpful) I have a 3.46ghz xeon x5690, 32gB DDR3, an AMD RX570 GPU and my windows drive is a 120gB SSD. MacOS is on a 240gB SSD. I should also point out that even after installing bootcamp drivers, my audio still doesn't work (obviously the GPU's does though) which leads me to believe that bootcamp is doing nothing at all concerning recognising my machine.
windows 10 does a decent job on finding drivers but one time it did not find the drivers for nvidia card and i was stuck using microsoft basic display drivers which dont support 1080+ resulutions
i had the same issue with running windows 10 on my 2011 imac so i made a windows 8.1 cd and ran that instead and it is working flawlessly on my imac everything works inlcuding gpu drivers no crashes or any blue screens, accepts updates and anything u throw at it i dont even boot into os x anymore i just use it as a windows pc =)
If you have Windows 7, you can install this on boot camp or just install it by overwriting everything and then upgrading to Windows 10, or can you install windows 10 without using boot camp?
The single beep was a firmware update. You guys truly don't have a clue... When installing Win10, when it boots up you have to disconnect ethernet and run it through setup WITHOUT connecting to the internet. If you leave it connected it will download new drivers for the iGPU of the i-series Intel CPU., and then it will blue-screen, never to run again. You must first install bootcamp drivers, and after that you can reconnect the internet and let it update.
Guys that is not how its done for old non-retina iMac'S also windows should not be 1809 but 1803 because of the to many problems and bootcamp Drivers can be installed seperetly as a standalone don't use the ones that come with windows they are often buggy and don't work well, also AMD/Nvidia Drivers for better performance and optimisation if you can't succeed with using bootcamp direct, use Refit /refit.sourceforge.net. ,,, There is also other ways but they are more complicated like reflashing img and restoring drives,, Make sure your iMac 27 pre retina has the latest SMC and Firmware Make sure it also Has the latest Thunderbolt Firmware ..
That damn blue screen is the same thing I have been getting on my WIndows partition this week and it has been working fine. It started after a graphic drivers update and I haven't got it working since. I think the problem I am running into is OS Mojave is using a different partition table that I can't install Windows on my 2013 iMac
I got this issues on windows 11, first, the graphic's error (I have disabled cpu gnu on safe mode), now in struggling with the sound issues... I'm gonna try to record windows 11 on a dual layer dvd and trying to install from there... wish me luck XD
Hey Luke, I'm in market to buy a 2011 iMac 27inch, for mostly graphic design work . Is it a good buy in my budget? I'm very tight and need it for photoshop and small iMovie kinda projects.
Lol this vid had me creased, the usual technical problems I feel you guys..! Did you get this sorted with no problems in the end, I am not very good at using a drill lol and would like to keep mid iMac 2011 intact if possible lol :)
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Steps to install W10 on a old unsupported mac (i did it on 3 macs) :
1) Use Bootcamp to install W7. (Don t install apple bootcamp drivers).
2) Inside W7 select the option "UPGRADE TO W10" (takes about another hour)
3) Now you have W10, but if you want a clean version go to "Recovery " - "Reset this PC" - "Remove Everything". (Takes another half hour)
4) Take Bootcamp drivers from the bootcamp package (unzip em manually 1 by 1)
or just install 7, get drivers, and upgrade to 10
I appreciate you showing the parts where everything goes wrong because that's what a lot of people experience. Most people run into some kind of issue and other RUclipsrs with staged videos where everything turns out perfect (after 6 tries behind the scenes that didn't make the video) are not much help, especially when they don't even link to the articles that they used to solve the issues.
I just ordered a refurbished 2010 MacBook for about 130$, I’m hoping to get into repairing and upgrading macs like you!
The 2010 is great. It actually works better for Windows than for Mac
I'm having an impossible time installing Windows 10 on my mid 2010 white MacBook that has Mojave from Dosdude1. The third option to install Windows 10 is greyed out.
@@cncfan It's the same for me as well! Did you figure out how to get this working?
Lucas Brito I managed to get it working briefly by installing a very very specific version of Windows 10. It’s not reliable at all though. It will work for like a day then all of a sudden stop working. I reinstalled it twice and ran into the same issue. At this point it’s not worth it, I have an iMac that can dual boot and play games just fine.
@@cncfan Oh. I was trying to install Windows 7, tho. But I couldn't do that due to Mojave and the Windows 7 option doesn't appear at all. I'll try installing by DVD.
8:08. Some updates for macOS contain firmware updates. That beep sound indicates that it’s starting the process, and the screen that you though was ‘Safe Mode’ is actually the firmware update progress screen.
First four minutes of the video exactly mirror my experience with this process as I tried it with very little outside information. Except I accidentally erased my hard drive in the windows installer.
Ever noticed it's easier to install Linux on an iMac than windows for some reason
@@malawisupasoldier7478 lmao true
@@malawisupasoldier7478 it's easy to install Linux in general
I had some of the same issues as you all did. But, Windows 7 is running fine for the person I did install for. Hopefully, you all get that GPU installed soon. That's what I am waiting for. (:
You cannot install Windows 10 in EFI mode on the 2011 iMac, only Legacy mode. This explains why you are having BSOD and enabling devices. Went through the same issues on my 2011 iMac. In EFI mode the iMac won't let you install audio drivers, you have no backlight control and other issues waking from sleep.
Also the Beep followed the progress bar was a firmware update. Which is good because you won't be able to if you replace the graphics card.
i thought macs which support EFI only support EFI boot (no legacy support). was there a period where mac's can boot in legacy and EFI mode?
@@Geo25rey 2015 and newer Macs can Boot both EFI and Legacy. However with the new APFS rollout Apple was making some users with 2tb+ hard drives uninstall EFI windows partitions due to fusion/APFS issues.
install windows 7
highvoltage12v did you install windows 10 on 2011 iMac? I just phoned apple tech support before I started, they said bootcamp does not support under 2012 models as overloading issues..! Did you manage successfully to do this or would you recommend windows 7? Do you have any suggestions for me s I would really like to run windows 10 with no issues..!
@@couturefit123 I got it working on a 2011 iMac. You need a windows 10 bootable dvd that you can create yourself using a windows 10 iso and power ISO software to burn the image on top a blank dvd. Use diskpart to clean and covert the fixed driver to mbr mode from efi mode. Then install windows 10 using the optical drive that has the windows 10 dvd. Once installed then download Bootcamp for windows and install to update the drivers. That should do the trick.
that boop then a bar means its updating the efi firmware - nothing was wrong with that
Scared the shit out of me when my project iMac did it.
I tried installing W10 through bootcamp first, too, but failed several attempts. After attempting the same thing as y’all did, I ended up doing an install of W7 first, through an install disc I burned myself. Then, after having W7 installed, I used a W10 install USB to go to Windows 10. Quite a long workaround, but better than having to partition, repartitioning, and going through the hassle of installing without boot camp.
To skip installing Windows 7 and then upgrading to Windows 10 I got some words of advice for you "Hybrid GPT/MBR", that's the partition scheme you need(and want). You install Windows 10 in MBR mode(which is the same thing the bootcamp assistant does when installing Windows 7) and MacOS is still gonna be happy using GPT partition scheme.
PS: You loose audio, video output and thunderbolt capabilities just by using Windows 10 in UEFI mode, because for some reason the PCI device tree is different when those macs boot in UEFI and MBR.
OCEVN I used linux for that but you can take a look at this answer in Apple stack exange. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/236346/create-hybrid-mbr-gpt-just-like-bootcamp-assistant-does/236544
BRILLIANT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING BFOR A SOLUTION FOR THIS FOR YEARS!!
Impressive. To get 10 installed on my 2008 Mac Pro I had to slip stream the drivers into Windows 8 install, burn custom disk, and then upgrade to 10. This is harder to do with straight 10 install, but once it's up it works great.
A way to fix the issue you had with the partition scheme is also fixable (if you wish to erase all other OS) is just open the Windows Installer and when it allows you to select / partition / etc.. you just delete all partitions then click format and it will then let you click next through to the next step. I just went through this today.
The Windows 10 installation procedure is a pain in the butt even on PCs. It took me many hours to get it working on a previously bricked PC. You'd thin it would be as easy as creating a bootable USB stick and going from there but it ain't. Ran into the EFI problem too and it still has issues shutting down properly and I can't for the life of me figure out why.
I have an IMac 27 2011 and I have Bootcamp Windows 10 on the machine alongside High Sierra.
Never try to install Windows 10 directly though.
The trick is to install Windows 8.1 through Bootcamp with Bootcamp drivers. It works well. After that upgrade to Windows 10.
Some of the earlier W10 releases crashed from time to time when restarting etc.
However 1803 and 1809 (October release) works really great.
even if its done through bootcamp?
i mean, what if i manage to install windows 10 through bootcamp, will it still not work? please reply... means a lot
Sounds also work?
Billy Reksodikromo yes absolutely, as long as the installation follows Bootcamp standard as a bios installation/legacy boot sound always works. When trying to tamper and thinking a modern EFI style boot will work, then no sound. Just make sure legacy boot according to Bootcamp is used and it will work well.
Hello Guys,
yes installing win10 on a 2011 iMac is tricky.
First copy the bootcamp Version from Programs to your Desktop.
Then Open it with showing Content and Open the .plist with texteditor After that remove pre from preusb Part in the file and save.
After that start bootcamp from desktop now it should work to prepare a USB Stick.
If not open the plist again and remove your iMac 2011 from the windows 10 Part prohibit list.
You will find it in there.
Now prepare the usb stick with your win10 iso. Every version works, even the newest one from december 2019.
Prepare after that the partitions as you like.
Reboot if you like and install win10.
It may work or crash doesn‘t matter.
If you encounter problems like cannot install on this disk blablabla ignore it and just delete the bootcamp partition with the partition tool from windows. Now you can install windows in the free space.
Go on with the installation again it may crash or not when you are through with the installation
Boot into mac os while holding the optionkey.
Now this was just the warmup 😉
Get yourself a copy of winclone 7 full version trial will not work and 8 is not working in High Sierra.
Make an image with winclone from your bootcamp partition.
After that make a package installer with your bootcamp image with the make legacy bios option.
If you encounter any problems with that you need to boot Mac OS again with the command + r key and start recovery mode.
Don‘t go further open the terminal and type csrutil disable. This will prevent Mac OS from interfering with your tricky image and partition tinkering. (Don’t forget if you are through with your installation to go back to recovery mode and enable it again in terminal with csrutil enable. )
Now boot back again in Mac OS. It‘s better to not trust the bootmanager from mac to always bring you back to your Mac booting the normal way. So always use the option/alt key to choose yourself what you want to boot!
Now we use the package installer we created with winclone. Be careful to choose the right partition while recover your altered image.
So check twice that you only recover to the bootcamp partition.
If out of any reason the bootcamp partition is not visible in Mac os just activate it with your normal diskmanager from High Sierra.
Then it should be available again in winclone.
After winclone has done it‘s magic you reboot again with the alt/option key and choose your windows partition.
Now you can see the difference. Before it was named Windows UEFI now it only shows up as windows or bootcamp.
This was the biggest step to achieve, because now you can boot windows in legacy bios mode and windows 10 can now access the hardware in the right manner and the UEFI layer will not interfere with windows 10 probing the hardware and install the right drivers.
If you are lucky it will just work. But trust me 9 out of 10 tries it will not 😉.
Immediately Pressing f8 while booting brings you to the repair menu.
There choose advanced system repair options and boot in safe mode with networking.
Again if you are lucky it will repair the bootsector to legacy bios and with the next boot it will work and you can start windows 10 updates.
Try to get bootcamp for late 2013 iMacs there are sources in the internet with direct downloads to it.
You will need that because you will need the proper drivers.
Install it and reboot.
Always boot with alt/option key pressed you never know which bootdisk is the chosen one at that specific moment.
So keep the choice to your will 😉
Get the latest drivers for legacy AMD Cards from bootcampdrivers and install them.
Read the instruction thouroughly and obey it!
Be happy with a fully functional windows 10 iMac.
So what can go wrong?
1)Apple mouse or keyboard not working while installation
Use usb mouse and keyboard.
2) SSD Drive driver not found by. Windows 10 while booting after conversion to legacy bios.
This is caused by too old or to young version by bootcamp because you need all the drivers in $Winpedrivers$ folder from bootcamp software from apple. That you have the right version of the bootcamp drivers you can see very easy through the amount of winpepackages in that folder of your prepared usb bootstick for windows.
Open it and look into the $winpedrivers$ folder. There you should see about 7-10 different packages.
The one that is important is the AppleSSD64 package.
If these are missing you need another package and just copy over the whole winpedrivers folder to your windows installer bootstick.
Now comes the real advanced part.
Boot with r again but this time to the Windows usb stick.
Let it start the installation until you see the the first menu for installation.
Now press shift and F10 or F11 key this will start the windows 10 command shell/terminal
At this point maybe 99% of you will just quit 😉
Now you should have at least knowledge of the root commands of windows.
You need to find out which disk is which.
So x: is normally the usb stick
C: could be the virtual installation environment
D: could be your actual installed windows bootcamp.
How to determine which is which?
Change in the prompt to the different drives whith just entering c: or d: or x:
So you have to orient yourself with going through the different drives and write down which is which
Easy to find is your installed bootcamp. Because when you cd into the windows/users folder you should the a folder with the name you created while installation as user. So this might be c: or d:
Next we need to find the Drive with the $winpedrivers$ folder.
From there we get our needed drivers.
So you now might be clear
=> c: might be bootcamp
=> d: might be where the winpedrivers are
Now we inject the missing bootcampdrivers into our existing windows installation
C:\Windows\system32\dism /Image:D:\ /Add-Driver /driver:c:\$WinPEDriver$ /recurse
If it doesn‘t work you might need to exchange C: with D: and viceversa.
It will show some faults and some drivers which were installed during that process.
Just let‘s do it‘s magic.
When it‘s finished you should be able to boot into windows (remember always keep the power and use the alt/option key while rebooting otherwise you may boot again in Mac OS X)
If not then do one time more the trick with directly pressing f8 after you picked your windows from the Bootscreen.
You need to do that immediately otherwise it will not go to the repair menu of windows 10 and choose once more advanced options and boot into safety mode with network.
After that it should finally work totally stable with audio Bluetooth camera.
I‘m just playing on my mid 2011 iMac Gothic 3 with community patch without any problems.
OK I understand that the whole procedure will be for many too much or too complicated but as always „no pain no gain“
With my mid 2012 13 inch MacBook Pro it is very easy.
Just install Catalina with dosdude patcher and use the 6.x Bootcamp from that.
It will just work.
For the Late 2011 15inch MacBook Pro with AMD it‘s unfortunately the same hassle as with the 27 inch iMac from mid 2011!
So you need to make the same Long annoying and complicated procedure as above described.
Just one disclaimer, only do/try that with a not productive system or a reliable and very recent backup.
Anytime something could go wrong and you might need to reinstall your iMac 2011 or MacBook Pro 15 inch 2011 through recovery mode and start all over again.
Cheers
René
Just fixed an old iMac 2009 I was given a few months ago by installing Windows 11. My USB kept on fucking itself up with Windows 10 but Windows 11 had no issues with it. I couldn’t reinstall MacOS as the iMac would get into a kernel panic and got stuck every time.
What I have done in this situation is, yes you need a DVD drive, but use the boot camp assistant in macos. get two DVDs, one with windows 7 and the other 10. keep the 7 DVD in there during the GUI bootcamp part in macos. the last time it prompts you for admin credentials, enter them but then quickly eject the 7 disk and put in the 10. it will reboot and load whatever version of windows is on the disk.
The only problem which i have is, I can't install windows from USB Pendrive on my iMac 27 late 2011. Everysingle time when I install windows and try instal bootcamp driver my computer start crashing straight away. (BSOD) but when i install windows from DVD disc, everything works just fine.. This is so wired and I don't know where is the problem.
you can create a partition by terminal and format it as *NTFS* or use any thirparty to create a partition and make sure it is formated as *NTFS* then copy the iso content of the windows 10 to the partition and restart your mac while holding *alt/option*.in this case you mac will boot normally to the windows installer from the created pariton just click next and install the windows (no need to format the drive,windows will install normally because the partition schematic is *NTFS* )
to solve the (BSOD) use gpedit.smc to prevent windows 10 from automatically update intel graphics so go to device manager-----view>show hidden devcies---display and uninstall the intel graphic prevent gpedit.smc (use google for this on how to prevent drivers from update from group policy, its lengthy).then restart normally no ,ore BSOD ....64.sys
Hi Luke, I have a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro. I had the audio issue when I tried to install Bootcamp on my MBP. At first I thought it was just a bad installation but it did it again. My MBP was on El Capitan. After hours of going nowhere, I updated it to High Sierra and surprinsingly, I tried again with Bootcamp and everything worked fine. This week I upgraded to 16 GB and a new SSD, I installed Mojave and wanted to install Bootcamp again. It did the same issue with the audio drivers and all the MacOS updates were installed. This time, on the usb key it installed Bootcamp, once I was in Windows, the Windows usb key had all the drivers on it and I found the Cirrus audio one and installed it manually and it worked. Doing my installs, I tried to install Windows many times without Bootcamp, just creating a partition and booting from the usb key but there's always something that screwed up doing that like the famous GPT and MBR that had me going nuts. After all those tries, my MBP mid-2012 with 16 GB and a 240 GB SSD runs flawlesly Windows 10 and Mojave!
Another time, when I had the GPT and MBR thing that was annoying me, I installed GParted on a DVD drive and it let me convert my partitions from it!
Thanks guys!! Thank you for going through the trouble. The only other way I found required compilers, uh me no so good at dat. I picked up a Macbook Pro 8,3 early 2011 for less than $200 with an SSD big enough for me, and a newer battery. The sodimm closest to the key board is no good, otherwise all seems good. I also have 2 iMacs, Apple actually has the driver pack available for download. The drive pack for the newer iMacs was different than the one for the older MBP. On all 3 machines, I booted with WinX USB by holding option. I used WinX install to completely erase SSD. Installed WinX, then ran setup included in bootcamp driver pack from apple. It installed bootcamp control panel for keyboard extras, drivers*, and apple software update. Everything worked on the iMacs perfectly. *the MBP crashed on startup after restart from driver pack install. Started over, except one by one installed drivers from driver pack, with no bootcamp and no audio, ghost display listed in settings>display. Even got WinXI to the same point, but your solution just might be what might work for me as bootcamp, in my OSX not only listed win7, but win8 as well. I have no Win7 disk, but do have a Win8 Pro Retail disk with key. Wish me luck. Cheers!!
It is same for the macbook pros. I have a macbook pro late 2011 and in order to get 27" led cinema display working, first I needed to install windows 7 by using bootcamp, and then, I had to update it to windows 10. In win10, then by using compatibility settings, I installed bootcamp drivers.
You installed windows 7 with bootcamp or ?
@@takemeaway6810 First, I have installed Macos x Lion, then, I have installed win7 (I have installation CD) by using BootCamp manager. Last step was to update win7 to win10. I hope it is clear.
@@altanonat Understood, thank you 😊 🙏🏻
Currently upgraded my wife’s MacBook Pro mid 2012 to a 120gb ssd and soon gonna be upgrading to 8gb of ram. You’re videos are really motivating. Haha now I just wanna tinker with this. Was trying to possibly sell it. She also wants an iMac so I may just go the used and upgrade route. Boggles my mind on spending nearly $4k on a new one somethjng she definitely wouldn’t use to it’s full capacity.
0:28: "this video is kind of a mess"
RUclips: "ok then...."
0:29: changes to *144p*
I am so happy to find this video! It validated the hours I spent yesterday trying to do the same thing. OK, so I'm really trying to put Windows 11. It came up to the Windows 11 Desktop (and I should have taken a picture!), then it crashed. After looking at the error messages, it is the AMD Radeon Graphics. Now off to figure out how to fix this issue. Thanks for all you do.
Why didn’t you just edit the p-list package scripts for the Boot Camp Assistant on MacOS? They’re are a few videos on it, and it’s actually how I installed Windows 10 on my 2010 MacBook. Also, will you be flashing the graphics card that you will be putting in the iMac?
I have an old Imac late 2009 with intel core 2 duo, 16gb ram and ssd. I used Bootcamp to install windows 7 32 bit (licensed) with full support of bandcamp drivers. I upgrated to win 10 32 bit with some steps I found on the web and after one crash, the second time I upgrated everything work, even the full bootcamp functions with keyboard, magic mouse/trackpad, integrated graphic, isight, bluetooth controller ecc ecc. Now I have dual OS with High Sierra (the latest macOS supported) and Win 10 32 bit (latest update 22H2)
Drivers for the speakers can be found on the Apple website. Sure they are for windows 7 but they would probably work…
Man, you guys really went through a lot. I'll leave this here in case anyone needs it. I previously had aa huge sort of 2006-2008 MacBook and MacBook Pro's that either A. Supported up to Vista or B. Supported up to 7, and I installed Windows 10 on all of them (granted, the 2006's were hot trash on W10). What you need to do (for future reference):
1. Open Boot Camp Assistant on your OS X partition
2. Check off everything except for 'Install or Remove Windows 7'
3. It will most likely ask for your install disc or drive *that has the Windows installer ready to install*, connect that, in my experience it doesn't check for the Windows version and it'll go right ahead.
4. Choose the size of the Windows Partition, and wallah it partitioned.
*NOTICE, YOU SHOULD HAVE AN INSTALL OS X SNOW LEOPARD DVD, IT CONTAINS WINDOWS DRIVERS IN IT*
5. Once you install, insert your Install OS X Snow Leopard disc in your Mac WHILE IT IS IN WINDOWS, NOT MAC.
6. It should work from then on.
Sorry if what i said was confusing, i was n a rush, if you need any clarifications, reply here. Thanks and good luck to whoever needed my guide!!!
AndreFilms I have MacBook Pro 3,1 2007 edition I want to keep snow leopard OS & use windows 10 on the machine.....can it be done using boot camp ??
sammy davis Yep
What I did for my 2009 MacBook pro was install windows 7 from boot camp, Install the driver package that Bootcamp gives you, then used a windows 10 installer to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10.
wow nice information bro, i want to try it, thank you
Why don't you install Windows 7 and then upgrade to Windows 10 from 7? 7 is still supported in the older MacOS right?
We did that in the video
I just put in a fresh drive, booted from my USB, and got the support software on my MacBook, and I stalled it on the iMac with a USB keyboard and mouse. Worked! Give it a try.
The problem is not radeon graphic. Its a graphic chip on cpu. you need to disable driver installation in safe mode in gpedit. Ive got mine to work with no crashes.
I had so many problems with this iMac, I bought it for $200 with faulty GPU, after a few times in the OVEN (i'm actually serious) somehow it works for like a year already but same thing with the windows, works for a minute and then it's just getting crashed :/
I think you ran into the Windows Error 12.
Edit: The Bootcamp setup/preparation basically provides correct basics/driver files between the Mac and Windows 7. When upgrading, the Win 10 instructions are compatible because the code then do the correct writes and turning switches on the hardware which do not trigger a shorted circuit.
i just plugged in a windows 10 ssd from my laptop usiing a sata to usb and it worked like a breeze on my 2013 iMac
@Enzo malott why not
On older Macs I usually grab an old Win 7 ISO on a DVD (external Apple DVD drive should work too) and install in Legacy BIOS Mode. Then I install all Bootcamp Drivers and finally upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool (direct upgrade, I do not create an install medium). Works nearly every time.
wow nice information bro, i want to try it, thank you
Windows finding drivers is not something I like because it installs out of date drivers all the time and does not allow anyone to manually re-install the drivers without disabling the automatic driver downloads through windows update which you can have to do with the display driver uninstaller
I just installed it today. I tried to create installation media from linux and erased my hard drive, but it didn't work because of a corrupt file on the installation media. So I decided to create windows 10 installation media by using a computer that had windows 11. I tried using the usb this time and it worked. But windows 10 wouldn't get past the logo so I just spammed f11 till windows decided to actually load. I got onto the setup, but when I was almost done, I got a bsod. I restarted my imac but when I got onto the setup, I got another bsod. So I decided to boot the imac up again and try to spam f11 again. I got onto automatic repair and that somehow fixed my bsod issue. I finished the setup and now I have windows 10 on a 2011 imac. It currently has no issues and I'm hoping it doesn't for a while.
Edit: I didn't use bootcamp at all obviously because linux does not have bootcamp. Which meant that I didn't have the supported apple drivers.
Lol on my 2009 iMac, I was able to install both Windows 8.1 and 10, with minimal issues. I used Legacy booting through the DVD ROM, however.
hello ive got a early 2009 imac and im trying to get onto windows can u help me ?
Thats cheating sir.
JesseTech 2019 hi how did u do it? I need some help installing windows 10 on mine
This is indeed tricky…I’m happy to know that it wasn’t just me!
for anyone still trying this all can recommend is to uninstall the gpu drivers on windows 7 then update to windows 10 from there windows should be able to download amd optimized drivers for the system which will be stable (for stock gpu users)
Edit: to uninstall the gpu drivers use DDU and make sure to set it to only uninstall gpu drivers and not audio as well
On my 2008 iMac I had to install windows 7 by taking out the hard drive and loading the installer files onto a separate partition then put the hard drive back in. For some reason it wouldn't detect any windows 7 install media from USB or DVD. I'm sure there's an easier way to get it to work and i think it had something to do with BIOS/EFI stuff.
Easy fix: Use bootcamp 6.1 instead of 5. Download with brigadier
You need to download a third party tool like rufus plus the windows iso and flash it as uefi and mbr mode or only mbr in order to install it on this mac via usb drive.....
I’m fairly sure in installed Windows 10 on a 2009 21” iMac and it was all fully functional in the end. Can’t remember what I did exactly...... I couldn’t do it with a USB installer - I had to put the optical drive back in - copy the Windows 10 Install Media to a CD 💿 and then install everything - then put take out my CD drive and put my secondary HDD back in.
your bootable usb drive could not be created an error occurred while formatting the disk
I literally just took a 2,5" hard drive, with a Win10 installation on it that was installed on an old AMD system, and screwed it in a 2008 macbook. Much to my surprise it just booted up, recognized the Wifi adapter and started downloading the appropriate drivers!
2010 27" imac here, triple-booting mavericks/w7/xp.
the thing I had to do was put xp in the 'end' partition. I used a thing called EFI manager to set the partitions up initially.
So what do I need to do to install windows 10 ? On the same Mac ? I always get the blue screen
10:36 why tf aren’t you using Target Disk Mode?
i think target Disk Mode works only between macs , he was referring to use the pc not the mac ...
lori Lori Target Disk Mode works on any computer
if you want to install windows 10 whitout bootcamp you have to convert partition to gpt whit disk part when
you boot the thumdrive you get option to repair your windows 10 click on that than you get more options select command prompt typ: disk part list disk than you see all disks you have type select disk 0 or 1 type convert gpt and you are done
I did this...installed win 7, then simply upgraded. Used boot camp only for win 7...did so thru El Capitan. Any newer Mac OS messes up like yours. Mavericks doesn’t let boot camp work with win 10. El Capitan let me do it. It’s like apple doesn’t want you to do this...forget Sierra or high Sierra. Apple didn’t include boot camp for win 10 for that iMac...also a friend did it thu Lion!..no issues.
Every time I install Windows on an old Mac I always start the first half on another pc because it’s always such a nightmare
I manage to install windows 10 on a iMac 2011 27" with all components working. It took me 3 days to work it out. I didn't use windows 7 and I didn't need to take the drive out of the iMac. I be happy to explain if you need.
Glen Leach how?
I installed windows 10 on a usb flash drive but the problem was that i could only open windows on EFI boot and there wouldn’t be any sound
@@tanza1187 You need to install windows 10 using legacy mode not gpt mode. Sound will not work on efi/gpt mode. There are a few ways to do this but for me i was comfortable in creating a windows 10 install disk and not usb. Boot from the optical drive and use diskpart to change the the intenal drive from gpt to mbr then install windows 10. see link for help using dispart conversion tool for gpt to mbr
ruclips.net/video/6x1HCMZpKec/видео.html
Glen, have the same iMac 27" mid 2011 but the sound does no work. Could you tell me the correct audio drive to use? Thanks in advance...
Well i have another type of issue here.On a late 2009 27" iMac i changed the .plist file so it can run win10 from usb.Detects only efi disk i did install up to the point which says finishing up installation and...boom "couldd not complete installation" warning.Fails every time.I did everything,even tried commands but no luck.
What I did was put Windows 7 on the computer and then went to windows 8.1 by opening the ISO and extracted all the contents for windows 8.1 and upgraded then after that I’m downloading Windows 10 and doing the same thing extracting all the contents out of windows, 10 and upgrading that way to see if it’ll upgrade to windows 10 and if it does I will have a iMac 2011 with windows 10 or 11 on this computer you can use Rufus and make a MBR partition and then extract all the contents of that drive and try it that way to get it on the computer. I will let you know how my findings of getting windows 10 or 11 on this computer came out.
If you clone a Windows 10 Image in CSM with the SSD on MBR you dont have the sound or video issues. I was too having the same headaches, once I do that instead of UEFI GPT, all works like a charm. It has something to do with the iMac BIOS that initializes the firmware drivers in UEFI mode.
I did a DVD install of windows 10. The install went but web cam never worked audio never sounded as good as on the mac side but that was a minor deal.
all you had to do is install the bootcamp windows app and then run it . once that is done the display driver will have to be re updated through the driver properties function.
thats how i did it anyway.
That strange bit was a bios update! The sound will not work. I already tried a lot of different sources and drivers and there is no way, at least for mine. (i have almost the same machine, same graphics card, 32 gb ram and processor is an i5 2500S. I use the Standard HDD as windows and SSD as OSX. For the sound, i use and usb stick sound card, a Sony 5.1 headphone. What i want to see is that Nvidia 980M MXM working. That one is for sure the most important for me. Than you!
In Win10 with an Appple keyboard you can activate num lock in the on-screen keyboard. Shortcut is cmnd+ctrl+o. I can't buy a 27" UHD screen for $200, but I can buy a used iMac for less. Cheers!!
Not on my 2007 MacBook which I also had no problem installing 11 on
hiya luke i have an imac 21.5 2011 and i found upgrading to windows 10 had the same issue the graphics card after some searching i found the only way i could get 10 on my machine was to find the first edition of win 10 or the oldest version one i found was the 1511 build and it went on and found everything but the bluetooth which is not really needed for me so that build may help with the graphics card on your mac but bluetooth will be next to find a driver that works
that long beep after installing macos is NOT a test, its a firmware upgrade thats being done automatically. you just leave it and itll reboot itself.
All I did was install windows 7 using boot camp on my old MacBook 7.1 after installing the OS I installed bootcamp in windows for the drivers then just upgrade to Windows 10 via USB inside windows 7 instead of a clean install and worked like a charm
I did the W10 install I think on a 08 or 09 iMac but non the less, I had to go from windows 7 to windows 10 and then decided to do a clean install. I just downloaded the Bootcamp drivers from Apple them selves and then Everything worked great on it. But this was 3 years ago I don’t know if there’s anything different now
How is the drivers for the speakers?
realtek audio did not work when i install windows 10 in imac 2009 ( NOT BOOT CAMP) how to get back the SOUND?????
So I have a 2011 21.5" iMac, and I have replaced the 500GB HDD with a SSD that a friend gave me that came from an old laptop that was running Windows 10. When the computer starts up, the speakers make sound and the screen stays white for a few minutes then Windows 10 begins to boot. After windows 10 loads, the speakers stop working. I've try to update the drivers but it says they're running the latest drivers. Is there something I can do to fix it? Also, how can I install macOS on the new SSD?
I appreciate the amount of effort put into this project of upgrading this iMac. In this video it looks painful to upgrade to Windows 10 on this iMac. I am excited to see and learn from your upgrading the graphics card in the next video. What version of macOS does this iMac limit at ?
Have you tried to download the bootcamp drivers for that model mac from the apple website? That seems to work the best when I do it. The bootcamp drivers will install from Windows. You probably will have to install Windows 7 and upgrade it.
wow nice information bro, i want to try it, thank you
I had the same issue with mine after upgrading from a base install windows 7 to windows 10 there was no sound but yet everything was showing installed and working and I noticed the optical audio output was enabled and the headphone jack worked fine. I took your tip of installing the windows 7 drivers first but instead of starting again I uninstalled all the audio devices and put the package exe installer for boot camp in compatibility mode for windows 7 and it forced it to install because it refused to install in windows 10 else. After that I had sound from the speakers !!
Please upload detail video... I’ve been trying to get sound for 10 days,,,,,,,!!
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Dunno why you were getting issues with efi boot as I have a 2017 5k imac but I use windows bootcamped to an external drive solution (cos limited internal storage!)and I get no issues...
it upscales half way through the setup and it freaks out same thing happend to me
I installed supported windows (win 8.1) on my MacBook Pro late 2011 but the sound is not working yet !
(installed apple windows support too)
Evertything is difficult if you have no clue.
Btw, it is not a BIOS setting and that restriction that forces you to install from DVD on computers that were delivered with a DVD drive can be circumvented. (No, it has nothing to do with the partition scheme. Btw, you can not install Mac OS trough USB on those computers either.) You just have to know what and where you have to edit out.
I love your vids no matter how they look ❤️
Hey, FYI (if no one mentioned it), that beep and progress bar was a firmware update that Apple snuck in the software update. It’s (slightly) possible that it may have contributed to some issues installing windows? 😱😜👍🏽
Interesting issues. I wonder if the upgrade method will help me get the audio and bootcamp drivers working on my 2009 mac pro with an upgraded 2010 CPU tray and firmware. Mojave's bootcamp claims not to support this computer, so I did what you did at the start of the video and installed windows 10 directly from a flash drive, then grabbed the bootcamp drivers from Apple's website. Unfortunately, they wouldn't install for some reason. I then ran msiexec /i, pointing it to the bootcamp installer and it installed fine, but can't see my Mojave partition, which is APFS of course. For the record, if anybody has any comments (and they'd be really helpful) I have a 3.46ghz xeon x5690, 32gB DDR3, an AMD RX570 GPU and my windows drive is a 120gB SSD. MacOS is on a 240gB SSD. I should also point out that even after installing bootcamp drivers, my audio still doesn't work (obviously the GPU's does though) which leads me to believe that bootcamp is doing nothing at all concerning recognising my machine.
can you please helo me too
l install my 2009 ima windows 10 but wen boot windows logo then says your device run in to a problem ?
windows 10 does a decent job on finding drivers but one time it did not find the drivers for nvidia card and i was stuck using microsoft basic display drivers which dont support 1080+ resulutions
Why not just download windows 7 then update from there to windows 10? I did it on my 2007 iMac it worked just fine.
i had the same issue with running windows 10 on my 2011 imac so i made a windows 8.1 cd and ran that instead and it is working flawlessly on my imac everything works inlcuding gpu drivers no crashes or any blue screens, accepts updates and anything u throw at it i dont even boot into os x anymore i just use it as a windows pc =)
If you have Windows 7, you can install this on boot camp or just install it by overwriting everything and then upgrading to Windows 10, or can you install windows 10 without using boot camp?
plz give me sound drivers of apple all in one A1224 for windows 10 64bit
I have a 2012 imac can i get windows without a flash drive
Could just use dism and bcdboot from the command prompt in the installer
The single beep was a firmware update. You guys truly don't have a clue... When installing Win10, when it boots up you have to disconnect ethernet and run it through setup WITHOUT connecting to the internet. If you leave it connected it will download new drivers for the iGPU of the i-series Intel CPU., and then it will blue-screen, never to run again. You must first install bootcamp drivers, and after that you can reconnect the internet and let it update.
Hi sir,my 2011 Mac has windows 8.1,but the audio is not working,can you assist me by installing the driver for my device
not mine 2010 mac mini i get black screen when upgrade video drivers
Why didn’t you just use the dosdude patch tool install Mojave and then get the drives from bootcamp and then you would be good to go.
Guys that is not how its done for old non-retina iMac'S also windows should not be 1809 but 1803 because of the to many problems and bootcamp Drivers can be installed seperetly as a standalone don't use the ones that come with windows they are often buggy and don't work well, also AMD/Nvidia Drivers for better performance and optimisation if you can't succeed with using bootcamp direct, use Refit /refit.sourceforge.net. ,,, There is also other ways but they are more complicated like reflashing img and restoring drives,, Make sure your iMac 27 pre retina has the latest SMC and Firmware Make sure it also Has the latest Thunderbolt Firmware ..
That damn blue screen is the same thing I have been getting on my WIndows partition this week and it has been working fine. It started after a graphic drivers update and I haven't got it working since. I think the problem I am running into is OS Mojave is using a different partition table that I can't install Windows on my 2013 iMac
For me on my 2011 macbook pro it was pretty easy but I could not get the audio driver to work
I am having issues with the GPU too in a MacBook Pro from mid 2010, kinda sucks I had to go through some sort of hell for nothing
I got this issues on windows 11, first, the graphic's error (I have disabled cpu gnu on safe mode), now in struggling with the sound issues... I'm gonna try to record windows 11 on a dual layer dvd and trying to install from there... wish me luck XD
Hey Luke, I'm in market to buy a 2011 iMac 27inch, for mostly graphic design work . Is it a good buy in my budget? I'm very tight and need it for photoshop and small iMovie kinda projects.
Lol this vid had me creased, the usual technical problems I feel you guys..! Did you get this sorted with no problems in the end, I am not very good at using a drill lol and would like to keep mid iMac 2011 intact if possible lol :)