Thank you! Installation of Ventura and Windows10 bootcamp went perfect on an 2009 imac8,1 we picked up for $35. A 2009 imac is running with full 2023 features and security patches for both Mac OS and Windows 10. I have full messenger support, and full app compatibility. This is amazing. Note1: SSD required. Originally, the iMac system was unusable with the stock HDD. After upgrading to an older 256GB SSD, I'm able to install and browse most web pages, buy things, do email, study, play some 2010 era games, etc. Note2: Venture is the newest usable OS for my model. Even with SSD, Sonoma was too slow to be usable, so I had to downgrade to Ventura. Note3: the imac8,1 model had a built in DVD, which per this great video, needs a Windows DVD install. The hardest part of the bootcamp install in 2023 was sourcing the smallest possible pack of blank DVDs and a cheap $20 dvd burner. Note4: The Boot menu is a bit confusing, in that the bootcamp partition only boots from the initial (native built in) Apple bios boot menu, but Ventura boots from the secondary (chain loaded) OpenCore boot menu. First time I did the boot camp install, the Ventura OS booted and the apple progress bar froze at 40%. I assumed I botched the install, and redid everything, but perhaps it was just me choosing windows from the wrong boot loader. Note5: Specs are good. The 4GB ram was good enough for both Ventura and Windows 10. No issues thus far. I don't see swap usage with my workloads. The SATA 2 interface is fast enough; specifically the HDD bottleneck appears to be the HDD random access read speeds, which, per CrystalDiskMark, were 2 orders of magnitude slower than SSD.
I have for the better of 3 days, been trying to dual boot my mid 2012 opencore monterey with windows 10. Each time, it just kept failing. That was till I followed your tutorial step by step, thank you so much for making these videos. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for this tutorial! While I didn't use the methods described here in detail, it helped to identify the issue with installing Windows 10 on a 2012 Macbook (the optical ISO solution which supports legacy BIOS/MBR installations). After using another tool (gdisk) to create a set of hybrid GPT/MBR partitions on the SSD drive, I was finally able to complete an non-EFI installation of Windows 10. This allowed the integrated graphics drivers to work properly (as well as audio). Thanks again!
You’re an absolute life saver. OCLP’s guide wasn’t working for me and it was a bit complicated. But your guide was very straightforward and the installation went very smoothly on my 2012 Mac Mini. Thanks a bunch :)
Perfect tutorial - thx a lot. First I managed to install Monterey on my 2010 MBP following your tutorial and now Win 10. I even managed to upgrade to Win 11 and it works perfectly on a 12 / 13 year old MBP. Thx again!
I have the same Macbooj Pro mid-2010. I stuck at 13:53 because it says, your partition is MBR but it should be GPT based. And i can’t continue. And after 1 day still i got no answers. I can’t find anything useful. How did you manage to install windows 10? Is your disk GPT based already? But how? I followed Mr Macintosh’s MacOS Sonoma guide perfectly. And it works now. But bootcamp windows 10 doesn’t. Help me please. 😢
I was able to upgrade my mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Patched Sur to Monterey 12.3.1 using OCLP without any problems... Even the Windows 11 Bootcamp was intact and works perfect... Thanks Mr. Mac for another great tutorial.
You can use Rufus or Hasleo WintoUSB to make an external Windows installation. Works great! I have a dvd caddy and now I have a 240gb external SSD with Windows 10 and I can play games. Thanks for sharing all of this information. Obviously you have to select MBR/Legacy installation to make it work. Hasleo only made a Home Edition, but Rufus can select a Pro Edition and lets you make the Windows Boot MBR and UEFI (this type of partition it's on another partition of the drive).
Follow step by step and it WORKS LIKE CHARM 👌 on my MBP 13" mid 2010, stick on Monterey and patiently waiting for an OCLP update to fix the minor bug, ie; Maps, Location, Photo Boot. Thank you for all the hard work to putting this together 🙏
Ciao, I downloaded the iso file for DVD, burn it, boot MBR Windows in boot section, installed, updating, audio and external monitor finally works, and now I am suprised … thank you very much, you have made such a good video … 👍 MacBookPro 9,2 (2012) with external optical drive
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Thank you!!! Finally I could install Windows 10 through Bootcamp in a A1181.
If you can't install Windows on partition you should return to macOS, then do following steps: Once you open up Disk Utility, you will "Erase" the BOOTCAMP partition and set the format to MAC OS EXTENDED (JOURNALED), once the "Erase" and re-formatting are done, restart your mac. Hold down the "Option" key as the macbook powers on, then select as at first try. From there the Windows logo should appear and then you'll be prompted to select language and Windows version (i.e. Home, Education, Pro), skip the activation key section then on the next window where you select the partition to install in, you should see several option. You should see the "Unallocated Space" partition with only 128Mb, but it is obviously too small to install Windows on, so you will need to delete the "BOOTCAMP" partition which should have just about as much space as you allowed for your Windows install. Select "BOOTCAMP" (or whatever you renamed it when in Disk Utility) and press delete, this will add all that storage to the "Unallocated Space". You should now be able to install Windows.
Thanks! this worked for me but i couldn't stop the bootcamp assistant restarting my 2012 macbook and i ran into the problem of windows seeing the bootcamp partition as unusable. I booted back into mac and formatted it to mac journaled and then to exfat. I then went back into the windows installation and tried again and this time with success as it was able to delete the partition and then format it for installation. Plus the sound works too!
Hello Mr.Macintosh, I followed all the steps on my 2011 13in Macbook Pro minus the dvd option, using a flash drive, everything went through smooth until i got to the WIndows install, there is an error that came up "Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 3. Drive 0 Partition 1 is 200 MB , Drive 0 Partition 2 is the Open Legacy 13.3 with 130.4GB and Drive 0 Partion 3 is the Bootcamp with 107.9GB. Any suggestions? On the details is says: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partiton table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disk. I'm a newbie and need a little help...Thank you in advance.
The tutorial was perfect. I just followed all steps and installed Windows 10 on my 2009 MacBook Pro. No issues with the install. Please do share the video for Windows 11. Only error I got was when it fully restarted. I got an error saying rundll error
Hi, do you have issues with the graphics driver? in UEFI mode, graphics driver dont work "properly" unless executing a efi script (.nsh) before windows boots.
@@zeromant80 no the brightness keys F1 F2 don't work. Also on the track pad, tap to click doesn't work; you have to press the track pad for the cursor to click selected object.
I have a MacBook Pro 13-Inch "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 Mid-2010. I had a lot of problems to install windows 10 on it due an issue with the GPU drivers (Geforce 320M). The only way I managed to install it is using Bootcamp; Install windows 7 and then keep updating it with Windows update until get the latest windows 10 update. An annoying and slow proccess. I tried also to install windows 11 but I had the same problem. If you know a solution it would be awesome if you could do a video showing how to install windows 10 and 11 in this specific model. Thanks in advance!
Awesome guide! I've used the dosdude1 patcher guides in the past to take my MacBook pro 5, 3 (mid 2009) up to Catalina and I dual boot between Windows 10 and OSX. Catalina. Following your guide, I used open core, applied it to my APFS Mac distro and updated to Monterey. I had an issue getting the partition to convert to APFS. Then I saw a video where you unmount then convert to APFS inside the disc manager inside recovery console or USB boot up installer disk manager. That was the only step I was missing. I can still use Windows if I hold control it boots with the legacy boot option. But if I let the computer boot normally, it defaults to Monterey via the open core EFI loader.
Thank you so much for this video! Makes it a lot clearer for me. I only have one question. How can I install this on a seperate internal SSD instead of a partition?
Not working for me. I have a MBP mid-2010 13 inch. I installed 10.6, 10.13, and 12.5 on a 500 GB SSD. Somewhere during my install process I updated the firmware. So now the computer will actually net-restore to 10.13! Once OpenCore was installed 10.13 will only boot from the OpenCore EFI boot loader. This computer should not have been able to install from the usb but it did. I think that is from the updated firmware. Windows will only boot from the OpenCore EFI boot loader. The issue is after I did set-up and installed the Bootcamp driver package and restart the computer restarts to the windows logo then the screen flashes and it boots again. It will keep doing this until I press option at the reboot. I then have to go to OpenCore EFI, windows is already chosen and it boots to a screen that says “preparing automatic repair.” Eventually, sometimes after a reboot, it says that it has to go to a restore point. The whole process repeats itself. Basically, I can’t boot into windows without it having to “restore.”
hello, I've been trying to put windows 10 on my iMac 2011 and I've tried totally everything but I just can't get it to install on the bootcamp partition no matter what format I chose MR Macintosh please I beg you, can you help me ive been doing this for a solid week and nothing 😞
Another excellent video from you! I successfully installed Monterey on an Early 2008 MacBook Pro 4,1 and then had Windows fully updated running in parallel. I had to start with a single partition Mac drive in order to succeed but once all working I decided to restore the El Capitan through a CCC clone to a smaller partition created from within the Monterey. But something about just cloning an El Captain drive to a new partition made it so the Windows drive is no longer visible (I can still boot to Monterey and El Capitan). How can I restore the Windows drive (still intact I am pretty sure) to the OCLP bootloader process? Thank you,
For some reason I see people all the time in different tutorials talking about using Boot Camp Assistant with a usb thumb drive but if I have a thumb drive plugged in, I always get the error "Please remove any external storage device attached to this system before continuing." and I can't continue unless I unplug my thumb drive so I can't get to that next screen
hi, my problem is that when i go to select the windows disk on my macbook pro mid 2010 it does not start it starts only if i select efi boot with the disk icon starts, but it does not let me install windows because it says that it is not possible to install this partition in efi mode need to convert to gpt? what should I do?
Great video! I have a question about my setup i'm planning to use with oclp and windows 10. I have a 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 and my upgraded graphics card does not show the boot screen when holding "option" while booting. therefore I do not know how I'm going to switch operating systems without having to remove and reinstall the original graphics card every time I switch OS's, which can be very problematic since the original gpu isn't supported in any recent version of mac OS. Do you know another way i can work around this? Thank you for your incredibly helpful videos!!
Great question Logan, check this out! Let me know if it works dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/TROUBLESHOOTING.html#booting-with-a-non-flashed-gpu
Hello Mr Macintosh. I love your tutorial guides. I followed you and installed MacOS Sonoma with your video to my Macbook Pro mid-2010. But in this Windows 10 tutorial with Bootcamp, at 13:53 of video, it gives error. And it says: Your partition is MBR and Windows needs GPT to continue, something like this. And i can’t do anything. I formatted it via “eraser” logo button in installer but it did nothing too. I am researching for 1 full day and i get nothing. What i need to do? Thanks.
I have this same problem on imac 09, my dvd drive does not work properly, so Im trying to use an external dvd drive but it does not go to windows logo or anything stays on black screen.
Quick question: when I load into Windows, I launch bootcamp app and I chose the Windows partition to be the default boot partition. That works well but as soon as I manually boot into macOS (by pressing the option/alt key), the boot partition defaults back to the macOS partition. Is there a way to prevent this behaviour?
I got all the way to 13:00 but no DVD option presents itself. I have previously replaced the superdrive with an aftermarket dvd-bluray combo drive. When my disc appeared the icon was actually a yellow usb looking thing. When selected it did run the optical drive. But then when it got to "where do you want to install Windows", drive 0 partition 3 BOOTCAMP has a message "Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 3 (Show details) because it is APFS I think. I wish that would have been mentioned at the start of the video. When 'show details' is clicked the message reads: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style." Bummer.
i have a Problem i have a 2009 Macbook Pro with BigSure Patcher (Opencore) and its running very good. But i want that same options that you have with windows 10 Bootchamp. But every time i get a message from the installers you musst boot from GPT because mbr its not suportet but all my drivers are gpt. Can you help me?
i got error when clicking the bootcamp partition: windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an mbr partition table. on EFI system windows can only be installed to GTP disk
I’d really love to see how you’ll install windows 11 because bootcamp makes windows 11 crash and then I have to reinstall windows again on my early 2011 13” MBP
windows 11 is not worth it on mac .. you can fix installer to install win11 on mac, but any major update can break it and you will not able to boot again
I currently have a 2011 iMac with High Sierra loaded and a legacy bios Windows 10 installation installed dual boot setup. Would I be able to use OCLP to update the Mac OS side to Big Sur or would that also mess up Windows partition?
I have tried to follow this video 3 times but the install hangs up at the same point each time... The unit is a late 2012 mini Mac with a 1tb hd and 16GB of ram that has Catalina OS.. It appears the install is going as stated but It hangs up after windows stop gets to the part where it is supposed to copy files to the hard drive. The screen shows the drive partitions but message says that windows files can only be installed to a gui drive.Any Thoughts or ways forward... I have 4 units in my office that I need to run several windows only programs on... HELP PLEASE!!!
If 2012 unibody MacBook Pro with DVD drive an actual DVD isn't necessray. In fact it's never necessary, you can just use Rufus from a Windows machine to create your Windows installer in MBR mode. You can also do this with Windows 11 as Rufus lets you disable the need for TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot
My 2016 MacBook pro spofed to 2020 MacBook pro it can't download the windows support file but I make back to it's original serial number and still doesn't work so what do I do now?
I have Monetry, thanks to you, on a 2015 iMac. However, bootcamp will not run while an external USB drive is plugged in. There does not seem to be an option for creating a bootable USB with Monyerey's version of Bootcamp.
Windows 11 iot ltsc 21h2 (windows 10 ltsc 2021) doesn't fit on a dvd (just barely too big). Should I use a windows 10 ltsc 2019 copy to put onto a dvd?
I have iMac 2010 with MacOS Sequoia installed. My built-in DVD drive is not working. the video says I cannot use USB flash memory to install windows since I have DVD drive. what should I do now?
Thanks for the Video! It has worked here on my macbookpro 7,1 mid 2010. I just had to reinstall mac os from scratch. An update from High Sierra didn't work. I've also reverted the Windows 10 from 22H2 to the DVD version 1801 because it made the graphics card 320m nvidia, too slow...
you don't need to use cd for 09-12 Mac pro's, simply copy boot camp to desk top, right click, look at package contents, open one of the files and delete the 2 entries that say Mac Pro 5,1 (boot from cd only and non windows 10 compatible) then run boot camp as normal.
Hi, this video seems to miss critical points. Like the legacy Windows part. You never mention what makes a Windows "legacy" and why you need it. Our problem is that we are trying to install a Windows 10 on a drive where the Bootcamp complains is a GPT drive. While Windows 10 complains it needs a GPT drive. We cannot continue the installation UNLESS we us a legacy Windows 10 that uses a MBR instead of GPT. But you never address this at all and only show a 4.4GB version that is needed for old Macs that will use a DVD instead of USB. Our Bootcamp never initiates an install window where we can choose partition size. If we boot from USB we always end up in either Windows refusing to install or Bootcamp refusing to install. We have tried many methods all unsuccessful. Legacy Windows is our last idea we want to try. The machine is MacBook 2011 with two drives running High Sierra.
Hi I got the windows 10 iso to a dvd but it won’t boot the Mac does see it in the boot menu but when I select it I get a flashing cursor for a few seconds and then nothing happens I waited about 5 minutes does it take longer I and using a MacBook Pro from 2012
I got “windows cannot install required files” :( imac late 2012, no cd drive. I used the WINDOWS boot (bios) and that happened. EFI doesn’t work, as expected. What should I do?
on my 2012 Mac Pro running monterey latest, i guess I have to have an apple firmware video card with boot selector? so i need to replace my RX580 with an apple graphics card first? I get a boot picker and it started up the cd but then said my bootcamp partition woudnt work.. I never saw the DVD but it shows maybe my USB stick as install
Hey Mr Macintosh. I dont understand why i need to use an actual dvd for older macs. It is possible to make a bootable USB using the older ISO you provided through internet archive instead of using a DVD in a 2010 MacBook?
Please help, on windows setup, it keeps showing following error: we couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one. Ps: i have followed the step to erase and format to exfat on disk util, and then format the partition again on windows installation
Ive a macbook pro mid 2012 retina, theres a windows boot but when i clicked on it nothing happen and the screen just glitched, when i just install on efi boot, when the installation done, i can use the windows smoothly, BUT after i turn on the internet, that means the graphics driver getting update, it causes me black screen after that 😩 is there any fix for this?
I get all the way to Windows install setup and get to "finishing up" and get this error: Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows , restart the installation" Retried 3 times with the same result/ I am on a late 2012 Mac Mini running Ventura 13.2 No DVD . Using USB installer. Any suggestions??
There's various ways to get it done but before you need to consider; opencore does not like windows legacy...if you have opencore running keep it mind windows uefi, without opencore is windows legacy. Legacy: -You can get it installed in a windows pc (MBR partition scheme) at the first reboot you remove the hard drive and put it into your Mac pro. -second path (without a pc) at your mac pro remove all the drives with mac things in it and try a DVD in your optical drive but do a google search because some newer windows 10 don't work at the mac pro dvd, you need an old windows 10 dvd and then upgrade with a newer iso.(side note: you can check abdy Franco boot manager to switch between Mac and windows, in this route you can skip the bootcamp drivers that are more harmful than relieve haha). About windows uefi you can do it through USB at the boot picker. Performance wise there's no difference between legacy and uefi; the only advantage of uefi is it can run from a nvme drive and a few drivers but nothing too great of a deal.
Hello I have a problem when it comes to the bit where the setup_Bootcamp.exe is opened and then used to install things and before it’s done installing it’s says the system ram into a problem please help
Hello, Mr. Macintosh. Will this scenario work with MacBook pro late 2008 and does Bootcamp in itself is capable to install Windows on secondary SATA disk? OCLP with Monterey is already installed.
Hi, nice video, but i got into an issue, after installing drivers, i got into a boot loop, i know its the gpu, cos i boot into safe mode and disable it, and now windows is running, but everytime windows does an update the driver un-disable itself so i got the boot loop again... do you have perhaps a solution for this? thanks in advance!!!
Do I need to be able to see the boot screens to be able to do this method? I’m running a mac pro 5,1 with a rx 6600xt and I can’t see the boot screens with that card. To load into windows would I be able to use the oclp boot picker?
I have a macbook mid 2010 I used the USB install and it works but once I restart it and try load it up again I go through bootloops and tbh I don't wanna do the dvd option is there a way to fix the bootloop
Hello @RuthlessAfo98, I hear ya I know the DVD install is a pain in the but. But what you are going through is exactly what I found in my testing. I tested UEFI on 2012 and older macs or hours trying to figure out all the issues. I realized it was a waste of time because DVD Legacy BIOS was so much more reliable on older macs. Try it out!
Am I the only one who got stuck on black screen once selected Windows DVD boot to continue installing win10? I'm using MacBook Pro late 2012 and an external optical drive.
After finishing all this, all i wanted is to hide Macintosh HD disk on bootpicker, and shown “Windows” and “EFI Boot (OC)” only. how to do that? and how to rename “Efi Boot” to “Macintosh HD” thnks for help
Hey, ran into an issue with my MacBook Pro 2011. That dang dedicated video card. Mine's patched to be turned off. When the Windows installer starts off the DVD, I get some pretty purple bars about an inch thick and one windows logo. And nothing else. Is there any way to get windows to ignore the dedicated video just like OS X (and Open Core) do?
I have a clone of my Windows legacy drive in winclone. Will I be able to restore my old partition to this new install? And I already have a mac partition. Does using bootcamp mean I have to create another mac partition and osx install or can windows be the only partition on the “Bootcamp” drive? Thanks and this was a great “how to” guide!
Hi great tutorial, love it One issue with me , when boot camp finished installing drivers and I reboot, it doesn't come up anymore , it crashes every time and diagnostic pc then auto attempt to repair and still crashes and restart the same problem, can I update windows 10 to the fullest before installing bootcamp drivers??
I need help! i have gotten the error about the setup file, but after i did what u did, it says that it couldn't find the windows apple software, i tried everything but i couldn't download it!! I have an 2010 11"2 iMac running Big sur with OPCL P.S: i also tried to download it from the menu bar when i have bootcamp open, it says that the download couldn't continue due to an error. is there any way to download it manually?
I have problems with my apple keyboard and oclp i cant use the keyboard to boot into the bootselection i need a extra usb keyboard all the time is there away to get around that
Mine says “windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the mbr…” any ideas? Tried reformatting the partition but this didn’t work. Has anyone else encountered this?
I installed windows by dvd and I don’t see windows disk in oclp boot menu. I have to boot windows from there because I have Mac Pro 5.1 with non apple graphics card and I don’t see normal boot menu. Do you have any solution of this problem?
Hello! Thank you very much for your videos. I am running a MP 5.1 with a non flashed GPU, I was wondering if there is another way to install Windows widow partitioning th main HD, basically not going the Bootcamp route. Thank you!
I swapped out my windows notebook drive with a ssd. Is there anyway to boot off the platter drive with a clone of 10? And as an external drive by usb or FireWire.
I have a mid 2011 mac, running ventura 13.6.4, I also have a bootcamp partiton with windows 10. I followed this guide, to have a dual boot of the same hard drive and everything was running smoothly. I've just tried to boot the machine into windows, pressed the alt key, selected efi and the windows legacy folder has disapeared. Can anyone help me figure out how i can get it back. i've tried to set the start up disk as bootcamp, but I get an error message.
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Thank you! Installation of Ventura and Windows10 bootcamp went perfect on an 2009 imac8,1 we picked up for $35. A 2009 imac is running with full 2023 features and security patches for both Mac OS and Windows 10. I have full messenger support, and full app compatibility. This is amazing. Note1: SSD required. Originally, the iMac system was unusable with the stock HDD. After upgrading to an older 256GB SSD, I'm able to install and browse most web pages, buy things, do email, study, play some 2010 era games, etc. Note2: Venture is the newest usable OS for my model. Even with SSD, Sonoma was too slow to be usable, so I had to downgrade to Ventura. Note3: the imac8,1 model had a built in DVD, which per this great video, needs a Windows DVD install. The hardest part of the bootcamp install in 2023 was sourcing the smallest possible pack of blank DVDs and a cheap $20 dvd burner. Note4: The Boot menu is a bit confusing, in that the bootcamp partition only boots from the initial (native built in) Apple bios boot menu, but Ventura boots from the secondary (chain loaded) OpenCore boot menu. First time I did the boot camp install, the Ventura OS booted and the apple progress bar froze at 40%. I assumed I botched the install, and redid everything, but perhaps it was just me choosing windows from the wrong boot loader. Note5: Specs are good. The 4GB ram was good enough for both Ventura and Windows 10. No issues thus far. I don't see swap usage with my workloads. The SATA 2 interface is fast enough; specifically the HDD bottleneck appears to be the HDD random access read speeds, which, per CrystalDiskMark, were 2 orders of magnitude slower than SSD.
I have for the better of 3 days, been trying to dual boot my mid 2012 opencore monterey with windows 10. Each time, it just kept failing. That was till I followed your tutorial step by step, thank you so much for making these videos. Keep up the amazing work!
Pov: the video releases 2h before you need it
Thanks for your amazing work. You have saved me so much time and effort :) Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much @Anonymous914 👍
Thank you for this tutorial! While I didn't use the methods described here in detail, it helped to identify the issue with installing Windows 10 on a 2012 Macbook (the optical ISO solution which supports legacy BIOS/MBR installations). After using another tool (gdisk) to create a set of hybrid GPT/MBR partitions on the SSD drive, I was finally able to complete an non-EFI installation of Windows 10. This allowed the integrated graphics drivers to work properly (as well as audio). Thanks again!
how i can make that hybrid partition with gdisk?
That bogus old saying "Those who can't do, teach".... You disprove that right here, and in your other videos. Extremely helpful.
You’re an absolute life saver. OCLP’s guide wasn’t working for me and it was a bit complicated. But your guide was very straightforward and the installation went very smoothly on my 2012 Mac Mini. Thanks a bunch :)
YAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! FINALLLYYY im having so much trouble these past days staying up trying to figure it out
Whoooo! Let me know if it worked 👍
Perfect tutorial - thx a lot. First I managed to install Monterey on my 2010 MBP following your tutorial and now Win 10. I even managed to upgrade to Win 11 and it works perfectly on a 12 / 13 year old MBP. Thx again!
I have the same Macbooj Pro mid-2010. I stuck at 13:53 because it says, your partition is MBR but it should be GPT based. And i can’t continue. And after 1 day still i got no answers. I can’t find anything useful. How did you manage to install windows 10? Is your disk GPT based already? But how?
I followed Mr Macintosh’s MacOS Sonoma guide perfectly. And it works now. But bootcamp windows 10 doesn’t. Help me please. 😢
I was able to upgrade my mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Patched Sur to Monterey 12.3.1 using OCLP without any problems... Even the Windows 11 Bootcamp was intact and works perfect... Thanks Mr. Mac for another great tutorial.
You can use Rufus or Hasleo WintoUSB to make an external Windows installation. Works great! I have a dvd caddy and now I have a 240gb external SSD with Windows 10 and I can play games. Thanks for sharing all of this information. Obviously you have to select MBR/Legacy installation to make it work. Hasleo only made a Home Edition, but Rufus can select a Pro Edition and lets you make the Windows Boot MBR and UEFI (this type of partition it's on another partition of the drive).
Follow step by step and it WORKS LIKE CHARM 👌 on my MBP 13" mid 2010, stick on Monterey and patiently waiting for an OCLP update to fix the minor bug, ie; Maps, Location, Photo Boot. Thank you for all the hard work to putting this together 🙏
Ciao, I downloaded the iso file for DVD, burn it, boot MBR Windows in boot section, installed, updating, audio and external monitor finally works, and now I am suprised … thank you very much, you have made such a good video … 👍 MacBookPro 9,2 (2012) with external optical drive
Thank you!!! Finally I could install Windows 10 through Bootcamp in a A1181.
If you can't install Windows on partition you should return to macOS, then do following steps:
Once you open up Disk Utility, you will "Erase" the BOOTCAMP partition and set the format to MAC OS EXTENDED (JOURNALED), once the "Erase" and re-formatting are done, restart your mac. Hold down the "Option" key as the macbook powers on, then select as at first try. From there the Windows logo should appear and then you'll be prompted to select language and Windows version (i.e. Home, Education, Pro), skip the activation key section then on the next window where you select the partition to install in, you should see several option. You should see the "Unallocated Space" partition with only 128Mb, but it is obviously too small to install Windows on, so you will need to delete the "BOOTCAMP" partition which should have just about as much space as you allowed for your Windows install. Select "BOOTCAMP" (or whatever you renamed it when in Disk Utility) and press delete, this will add all that storage to the "Unallocated Space". You should now be able to install Windows.
Thank you so much. I was fighting this for about 3 days😆🙏
Well done bro!! it works ! 😊
That's really work and help me after walkthru steps by steps. I got it finally. Really appreciate your sharing.
Thanks! this worked for me but i couldn't stop the bootcamp assistant restarting my 2012 macbook and i ran into the problem of windows seeing the bootcamp partition as unusable. I booted back into mac and formatted it to mac journaled and then to exfat. I then went back into the windows installation and tried again and this time with success as it was able to delete the partition and then format it for installation. Plus the sound works too!
Hello Mr.Macintosh, I followed all the steps on my 2011 13in Macbook Pro minus the dvd option, using a flash drive, everything went through smooth until i got to the WIndows install, there is an error that came up "Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 3. Drive 0 Partition 1 is 200 MB , Drive 0 Partition 2 is the Open Legacy 13.3 with 130.4GB and Drive 0 Partion 3 is the Bootcamp with 107.9GB. Any suggestions? On the details is says: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partiton table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disk. I'm a newbie and need a little help...Thank you in advance.
I am also having this error
Muy buenas, yo tengo el mismo problema y al instalarlo con el DVD no me ha dado ningún problema te recomiendo que lo intentes así
Worked a treat, many thanks.
Works for open core 2011 iMac
Mr. Macintosh, you did it again. Super video, great explanation, I will keep saying it, "Mr. Macintosh, Simply the Best" Thanks!
The tutorial was perfect. I just followed all steps and installed Windows 10 on my 2009 MacBook Pro. No issues with the install. Please do share the video for Windows 11. Only error I got was when it fully restarted. I got an error saying rundll error
Thank you @Sadd Anwer !! I'm actually looking at what is needed for windows 11 right now.
Hi, do you have issues with the graphics driver? in UEFI mode, graphics driver dont work "properly" unless executing a efi script (.nsh) before windows boots.
@@zeromant80 I haven't tested but I use just word and Excel so hardly notice it much
@@nightrider_1 does brightness works?
@@zeromant80 no the brightness keys F1 F2 don't work. Also on the track pad, tap to click doesn't work; you have to press the track pad for the cursor to click selected object.
I have a MacBook Pro 13-Inch "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 Mid-2010. I had a lot of problems to install windows 10 on it due an issue with the GPU drivers (Geforce 320M). The only way I managed to install it is using Bootcamp; Install windows 7 and then keep updating it with Windows update until get the latest windows 10 update. An annoying and slow proccess. I tried also to install windows 11 but I had the same problem. If you know a solution it would be awesome if you could do a video showing how to install windows 10 and 11 in this specific model. Thanks in advance!
Same issue here with macbookpro 2010 7,1. It installs and run Windows but it crashes when installing the nvidia video drive ...
Thank you for uploading that installer and telling us which one to get.
iMac2008 6GB RAM, ventura-windows10 dualboot works excellente, thanks
Wow. Great. Thanks man! 💜
My pleasure! 👍
Awesome guide! I've used the dosdude1 patcher guides in the past to take my MacBook pro 5, 3 (mid 2009) up to Catalina and I dual boot between Windows 10 and OSX. Catalina.
Following your guide, I used open core, applied it to my APFS Mac distro and updated to Monterey. I had an issue getting the partition to convert to APFS. Then I saw a video where you unmount then convert to APFS inside the disc manager inside recovery console or USB boot up installer disk manager. That was the only step I was missing. I can still use Windows if I hold control it boots with the legacy boot option. But if I let the computer boot normally, it defaults to Monterey via the open core EFI loader.
Also open core open is not showing
Thank you for this! You rock!
Thank you so much for this video! Makes it a lot clearer for me. I only have one question. How can I install this on a seperate internal SSD instead of a partition?
Not working for me. I have a MBP mid-2010 13 inch.
I installed 10.6, 10.13, and 12.5 on a 500 GB SSD.
Somewhere during my install process I updated the firmware. So now the computer will actually net-restore to 10.13!
Once OpenCore was installed 10.13 will only boot from the OpenCore EFI boot loader.
This computer should not have been able to install from the usb but it did. I think that is from the updated firmware. Windows will only boot from the OpenCore EFI boot loader.
The issue is after I did set-up and installed the Bootcamp driver package and restart the computer restarts to the windows logo then the screen flashes and it boots again. It will keep doing this until I press option at the reboot.
I then have to go to OpenCore EFI, windows is already chosen and it boots to a screen that says “preparing automatic repair.” Eventually, sometimes after a reboot, it says that it has to go to a restore point.
The whole process repeats itself.
Basically, I can’t boot into windows without it having to “restore.”
hello, I've been trying to put windows 10 on my iMac 2011 and I've tried totally everything but I just can't get it to install on the bootcamp partition no matter what format I chose MR Macintosh please I beg you, can you help me ive been doing this for a solid week and nothing 😞
I would love to see a windows 11 guide
Same
Just use Windows 11 ISO instead of Windows 10
@@suchy.chomikand it works perfect?
@@Rudaking444 yeah
@@suchy.chomik yup boutta try last time I tried it wouldn’t let me press install u run into that probelm ?
Another excellent video from you! I successfully installed Monterey on an Early 2008 MacBook Pro 4,1 and then had Windows fully updated running in parallel. I had to start with a single partition Mac drive in order to succeed but once all working I decided to restore the El Capitan through a CCC clone to a smaller partition created from within the Monterey. But something about just cloning an El Captain drive to a new partition made it so the Windows drive is no longer visible (I can still boot to Monterey and El Capitan). How can I restore the Windows drive (still intact I am pretty sure) to the OCLP bootloader process? Thank you,
Great video! Can you do Win 11 on Macbook Pro 9,2? Would be wild to see Windows 11 on dvd when their depreciating bluray 4k.
Difference between Legacy Bios and UEFI? What should I use for my mackbook mid 2012?
For some reason I see people all the time in different tutorials talking about using Boot Camp Assistant with a usb thumb drive but if I have a thumb drive plugged in, I always get the error "Please remove any external storage device attached to this system before continuing." and I can't continue unless I unplug my thumb drive so I can't get to that next screen
hi, my problem is that when i go to select the windows disk on my macbook pro mid 2010 it does not start it starts only if i select efi boot with the disk icon starts, but it does not let me install windows because it says that it is not possible to install this partition in efi mode need to convert to gpt? what should I do?
Great video! I have a question about my setup i'm planning to use with oclp and windows 10. I have a 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 and my upgraded graphics card does not show the boot screen when holding "option" while booting. therefore I do not know how I'm going to switch operating systems without having to remove and reinstall the original graphics card every time I switch OS's, which can be very problematic since the original gpu isn't supported in any recent version of mac OS. Do you know another way i can work around this? Thank you for your incredibly helpful videos!!
Great question Logan, check this out! Let me know if it works dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/TROUBLESHOOTING.html#booting-with-a-non-flashed-gpu
Hello Mr Macintosh. I love your tutorial guides.
I followed you and installed MacOS Sonoma with your video to my Macbook Pro mid-2010. But in this Windows 10 tutorial with Bootcamp, at 13:53 of video, it gives error. And it says: Your partition is MBR and Windows needs GPT to continue, something like this. And i can’t do anything. I formatted it via “eraser” logo button in installer but it did nothing too. I am researching for 1 full day and i get nothing.
What i need to do? Thanks.
I have this same problem on imac 09, my dvd drive does not work properly, so Im trying to use an external dvd drive but it does not go to windows logo or anything stays on black screen.
if you find a solution, pls let me know...I can`t pass the black screen with cursor blinking....@@jtjt7709
If I don't want to partition the drive, I assume I can skip that and just install on a separate drive?
I have this exact question, hoping he will reply to you!
just got windows 100 working properly, Need windows 11 tutorial too, thanks
Quick question: when I load into Windows, I launch bootcamp app and I chose the Windows partition to be the default boot partition. That works well but as soon as I manually boot into macOS (by pressing the option/alt key), the boot partition defaults back to the macOS partition. Is there a way to prevent this behaviour?
thanks a lot... this worked for me also in 2024 :)
I got all the way to 13:00 but no DVD option presents itself. I have previously replaced the superdrive with an aftermarket dvd-bluray combo drive. When my disc appeared the icon was actually a yellow usb looking thing. When selected it did run the optical drive. But then when it got to "where do you want to install Windows", drive 0 partition 3 BOOTCAMP has a message "Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 3 (Show details) because it is APFS I think. I wish that would have been mentioned at the start of the video. When 'show details' is clicked the message reads: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style." Bummer.
i have a Problem i have a 2009 Macbook Pro with BigSure Patcher (Opencore) and its running very good. But i want that same options that you have with windows 10 Bootchamp. But every time i get a message from the installers you musst boot from GPT because mbr its not suportet but all my drivers are gpt. Can you help me?
i got error when clicking the bootcamp partition:
windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an mbr partition table. on EFI system windows can only be installed to GTP disk
Thank you for this video it helps a lot ❤❤❤
I’d really love to see how you’ll install windows 11 because bootcamp makes windows 11 crash and then I have to reinstall windows again on my early 2011 13” MBP
windows 11 is not worth it on mac .. you can fix installer to install win11 on mac, but any major update can break it and you will not able to boot again
I currently have a 2011 iMac with High Sierra loaded and a legacy bios Windows 10 installation installed dual boot setup. Would I be able to use OCLP to update the Mac OS side to Big Sur or would that also mess up Windows partition?
Yes this should work fine but make sure you back up your files on both sides just in case.
I swaped out my dvd drive on my macbook pro is It still possible to install windows 10 on my 2010 mbp?
@SushiBoi0221 let me know it it works m8
@SushiBoi0221 but I binned off my optical drive years ago lol
@SushiBoi0221 damm could you send me the drivers you get on the dvd?
Yup, the USB Installer will be a UEFI install and I tried my best to make it work but had SO MANY problems. Do you have a USB DVD drive ?
after i choose the DVD icon to boot from i want go further it stucks with the black sreen and a blinking in the lef cornen ( - ) thats symbol...
I have tried to follow this video 3 times but the install hangs up at the same point each time... The unit is a late 2012 mini Mac with a 1tb hd and 16GB of ram that has Catalina OS.. It appears the install is going as stated but It hangs up after windows stop gets to the part where it is supposed to copy files to the hard drive. The screen shows the drive partitions but message says that windows files can only be installed to a gui drive.Any Thoughts or ways forward... I have 4 units in my office that I need to run several windows only programs on... HELP PLEASE!!!
If 2012 unibody MacBook Pro with DVD drive an actual DVD isn't necessray. In fact it's never necessary, you can just use Rufus from a Windows machine to create your Windows installer in MBR mode.
You can also do this with Windows 11 as Rufus lets you disable the need for TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot
My 2016 MacBook pro spofed to 2020 MacBook pro it can't download the windows support file but I make back to it's original serial number and still doesn't work so what do I do now?
I have Monetry, thanks to you, on a 2015 iMac. However, bootcamp will not run while an external USB drive is plugged in. There does not seem to be an option for creating a bootable USB with Monyerey's version of Bootcamp.
i have a 2012 macbook pro retina, so which method would i be using?
Windows 11 iot ltsc 21h2 (windows 10 ltsc 2021) doesn't fit on a dvd (just barely too big). Should I use a windows 10 ltsc 2019 copy to put onto a dvd?
I have iMac 2010 with MacOS Sequoia installed. My built-in DVD drive is not working. the video says I cannot use USB flash memory to install windows since I have DVD drive. what should I do now?
Maybe if you get an external DVD drive? Other than that not sure.
Thanks for the Video! It has worked here on my macbookpro 7,1 mid 2010. I just had to reinstall mac os from scratch. An update from High Sierra didn't work.
I've also reverted the Windows 10 from 22H2 to the DVD version 1801 because it made the graphics card 320m nvidia, too slow...
Any status on how to update to Windows 11? Thanks
you don't need to use cd for 09-12 Mac pro's, simply copy boot camp to desk top, right click, look at package contents, open one of the files and delete the 2 entries that say Mac Pro 5,1 (boot from cd only and non windows 10 compatible) then run boot camp as normal.
Hi,
this video seems to miss critical points. Like the legacy Windows part. You never mention what makes a Windows "legacy" and why you need it. Our problem is that we are trying to install a Windows 10 on a drive where the Bootcamp complains is a GPT drive. While Windows 10 complains it needs a GPT drive. We cannot continue the installation UNLESS we us a legacy Windows 10 that uses a MBR instead of GPT. But you never address this at all and only show a 4.4GB version that is needed for old Macs that will use a DVD instead of USB. Our Bootcamp never initiates an install window where we can choose partition size. If we boot from USB we always end up in either Windows refusing to install or Bootcamp refusing to install. We have tried many methods all unsuccessful. Legacy Windows is our last idea we want to try. The machine is MacBook 2011 with two drives running High Sierra.
Everything works perfectly on my MBP 2012, but cannot detect external monitors from my thunderbolt connection…. Any solutions?
Hi I got the windows 10 iso to a dvd but it won’t boot the Mac does see it in the boot menu but when I select it I get a flashing cursor for a few seconds and then nothing happens I waited about 5 minutes does it take longer I and using a MacBook Pro from 2012
I got “windows cannot install required files” :( imac late 2012, no cd drive. I used the WINDOWS boot (bios) and that happened. EFI doesn’t work, as expected. What should I do?
on my 2012 Mac Pro running monterey latest, i guess I have to have an apple firmware video card with boot selector? so i need to replace my RX580 with an apple graphics card first? I get a boot picker and it started up the cd but then said my bootcamp partition woudnt work.. I never saw the DVD but it shows maybe my USB stick as install
i followed your instructions and installed windows 10 but after restart windows 10 my computer keep restarting on windows 10, please help
Wonderful, can now get my 2012 MBP rocking. Question: after Windows is installed in this manner, can I then install my Linux partition off of that?
Hey Mr Macintosh. I dont understand why i need to use an actual dvd for older macs. It is possible to make a bootable USB using the older ISO you provided through internet archive instead of using a DVD in a 2010 MacBook?
Please help, on windows setup, it keeps showing following error: we couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one. Ps: i have followed the step to erase and format to exfat on disk util, and then format the partition again on windows installation
Ive a macbook pro mid 2012 retina, theres a windows boot but when i clicked on it nothing happen and the screen just glitched, when i just install on efi boot, when the installation done, i can use the windows smoothly, BUT after i turn on the internet, that means the graphics driver getting update, it causes me black screen after that 😩 is there any fix for this?
Muchas gracias, excelente video.
What about if you don't have a DVD to do it or a DVD drive?I have OCLP Monterey 12.6.1 in a Mid 2012 Macbook Pro 13''
I get all the way to Windows install setup and get to "finishing up" and get this error: Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows , restart the installation" Retried 3 times with the same result/ I am on a late 2012 Mac Mini running Ventura 13.2 No DVD . Using USB installer. Any suggestions??
I get thw same error
Is there a solution to install windows when you have old mac with non mac gpu (metal capabilities but without boot screen)?
There's various ways to get it done but before you need to consider; opencore does not like windows legacy...if you have opencore running keep it mind windows uefi, without opencore is windows legacy.
Legacy:
-You can get it installed in a windows pc (MBR partition scheme) at the first reboot you remove the hard drive and put it into your Mac pro.
-second path (without a pc) at your mac pro remove all the drives with mac things in it and try a DVD in your optical drive but do a google search because some newer windows 10 don't work at the mac pro dvd, you need an old windows 10 dvd and then upgrade with a newer iso.(side note: you can check abdy Franco boot manager to switch between Mac and windows, in this route you can skip the bootcamp drivers that are more harmful than relieve haha).
About windows uefi you can do it through USB at the boot picker.
Performance wise there's no difference between legacy and uefi; the only advantage of uefi is it can run from a nvme drive and a few drivers but nothing too great of a deal.
Hello I have a problem when it comes to the bit where the setup_Bootcamp.exe is opened and then used to install things and before it’s done installing it’s says the system ram into a problem please help
Hello, Mr. Macintosh. Will this scenario work with MacBook pro late 2008 and does Bootcamp in itself is capable to install Windows on secondary SATA disk? OCLP with Monterey is already installed.
Hi, nice video, but i got into an issue, after installing drivers, i got into a boot loop, i know its the gpu, cos i boot into safe mode and disable it, and now windows is running, but everytime windows does an update the driver un-disable itself so i got the boot loop again... do you have perhaps a solution for this? thanks in advance!!!
Do I need to be able to see the boot screens to be able to do this method? I’m running a mac pro 5,1 with a rx 6600xt and I can’t see the boot screens with that card. To load into windows would I be able to use the oclp boot picker?
Mine won't reboot to Mac os even picking the efi option.... Help!
I have a macbook mid 2010 I used the USB install and it works but once I restart it and try load it up again I go through bootloops and tbh I don't wanna do the dvd option is there a way to fix the bootloop
Hello @RuthlessAfo98, I hear ya I know the DVD install is a pain in the but. But what you are going through is exactly what I found in my testing. I tested UEFI on 2012 and older macs or hours trying to figure out all the issues. I realized it was a waste of time because DVD Legacy BIOS was so much more reliable on older macs. Try it out!
@@Mr.Macintosh ahh i see no worries man thank you for the reply love your content keep it up ❤️
Am I the only one who got stuck on black screen once selected Windows DVD boot to continue installing win10? I'm using MacBook Pro late 2012 and an external optical drive.
im trying this meathod but i'm stuck in windows 10 logo first boot. need help please
After finishing all this, all i wanted is to hide Macintosh HD disk on bootpicker, and shown “Windows” and “EFI Boot (OC)” only.
how to do that?
and how to rename “Efi Boot” to “Macintosh HD”
thnks for help
Hey, ran into an issue with my MacBook Pro 2011. That dang dedicated video card. Mine's patched to be turned off. When the Windows installer starts off the DVD, I get some pretty purple bars about an inch thick and one windows logo. And nothing else. Is there any way to get windows to ignore the dedicated video just like OS X (and Open Core) do?
I have a clone of my Windows legacy drive in winclone. Will I be able to restore my old partition to this new install? And I already have a mac partition. Does using bootcamp mean I have to create another mac partition and osx install or can windows be the only partition on the “Bootcamp” drive? Thanks and this was a great “how to” guide!
Hi great tutorial, love it
One issue with me , when boot camp finished installing drivers and I reboot, it doesn't come up anymore , it crashes every time and diagnostic pc then auto attempt to repair and still crashes and restart the same problem, can I update windows 10 to the fullest before installing bootcamp drivers??
I need help! i have gotten the error about the setup file, but after i did what u did, it says that it couldn't find the windows apple software, i tried everything but i couldn't download it!! I have an 2010 11"2 iMac running Big sur with OPCL
P.S: i also tried to download it from the menu bar when i have bootcamp open, it says that the download couldn't continue due to an error. is there any way to download it manually?
I can do It on MacBook Air mid 2011 ? Only usb installation ?
What about M1 ? How we can install windows on m1 laptops?
M1 has no Bootcamp. It works only with Parallels.
Correct ^ Windows 10 and 11 in Parallels works pretty dang good if you ask me!
I have problems with my apple keyboard and oclp
i cant use the keyboard to boot into the bootselection
i need a extra usb keyboard all the time
is there away to get around that
I just wanted to ask a doubt whether you needed oclp to install windows. I have macos catalina macbook pro mid 2012
Mine says “windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the mbr…” any ideas? Tried reformatting the partition but this didn’t work. Has anyone else encountered this?
I installed windows by dvd and I don’t see windows disk in oclp boot menu. I have to boot windows from there because I have Mac Pro 5.1 with non apple graphics card and I don’t see normal boot menu. Do you have any solution of this problem?
Is it possible to install windows in macbook pro 2012 i7 ventura 3.6 oclp without dvd disk ? Just with usb stick?
What you recommend for a Macbook Pro 2012 retina, Legacy or UEFI bios for Windows 10?
Hello! Thank you very much for your videos. I am running a MP 5.1 with a non flashed GPU, I was wondering if there is another way to install Windows widow partitioning th main HD, basically not going the Bootcamp route. Thank you!
I swapped out my windows notebook drive with a ssd. Is there anyway to boot off the platter drive with a clone of 10? And as an external drive by usb or FireWire.
I have a mid 2011 mac, running ventura 13.6.4, I also have a bootcamp partiton with windows 10. I followed this guide, to have a dual boot of the same hard drive and everything was running smoothly. I've just tried to boot the machine into windows, pressed the alt key, selected efi and the windows legacy folder has disapeared. Can anyone help me figure out how i can get it back. i've tried to set the start up disk as bootcamp, but I get an error message.
Hi! If i have a late 2009 white MacBook, and the dvd doesnt Work, is it possible to do it via usb?