WINDOWS 11 MAC PRO 5,1 INSTALL with RUFUS
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- How to install WIndows 11 on a Mac Pro 5,1 using Rufus using Martin Lo's opencore package.
I don't use Opencore Legacy Patcher at this time.
Create an install USB from ISO using Rufus (to disable TPM, 5,1 does not have this chip), start installation from OC bootpicker. Make sure you install to a different physical disk, in order to not erase your MacOS install.
LINKS
RUFUS :
rufus.ie/en/
OWC SSD SATA DRIVE SLED :
amzn.to/3hOohLC
SAMSUNG 1 terabyte SSD:
amzn.to/3hOohLC
Martin Lo's Opencore package 0.8.8
forums.macrumo...
#windwos11 #macpro #opencore
Saw a few people in the comments experiencing the same problem, a blank screen and getting thrown back to the boot picker when you click on UEFI NTFS to install.
I had the same issue and spent hours trying to troubleshoot it, removing unnecessary drives/hardware, different versions of software, etc.
Finally I found the solution. Windows 11 will not install with Martin Lo's OC 0.9.8. I had to roll back to 0.8.0 (just an older version I had handy) to get it to work, I believe Lance used 0.8.8, so not sure at what version it breaks. Once Windows is installed you can re-install OC 0.9.8, and it all works without problems.
Hope this saves people pulling their hair out! :) Thanks Lance for your awesome videos, hope you're enjoying the 7,1?
Hey Scott thanks for posting this, interesting how did you figure that out? The 7,1 is running great, new video going up today. I installed my W11 drive into it and it works but without opencore I have to hold the option to boot into windows, but I am wondering if installling bootcamp drivers is a good idea, I want it so it can easily switch between Mac OS and Windows but I am wondering if Apple GPU drivers would override AMD Adrenalin drivers for my rx6800xt.
It really was just a process of elimination, I tried everything. Also noticed in the comments someone using OLCP instead to fix it, which made me think it was an OC issue.
Re: W11 drive. You could always re-install AMD Adrenalin after installing boot camp if you get problems? Looking forward to the new video. 👍
Lance ... first, I want to say thank your great videos. You are my go to when upgrading my MacPro 5,1. Your videos are informative and clear. On this upgrade to Win11, my system was not taking the upgrade as you outlined. I finally took out all other drives. So, I only had the USB with Rufus and the target SSD that I was loading Wn11 onto. It worked perfected using this configuration. Your other readers might have try this method as a last resort. I know that this method is contrary to your recommendation to always keeping Open Core active. Hope that helps!
Thanks and it is a finicky install, all it takes is one efi that windows doesn’t like and it won’t install. Installing without opencore can be very risky, I know folks have succeeded like you but if windows writes to the bootrom it can be game over. Rufus should protect the bootrom as long as the correct check boxes are checked removing secure boot etc
I really appreciate you taking the time to make these videos, it really helps the average joe get into something technical and learn a thing or two along the way. Have a wonderful day my friend
For Opencore Legacy patcher folks read this posted by Matto Re Create the us drive and the partition following the bootcamp instructions. When you go to select the installation disk choose your second hd and continue with the installation, it shouldn't give you any error. finished installing windows turn off the MacPro and remove your second HD. Enter macosx and delete the bootcamp partition, turn off the MacPro again and insert your second HD. Now if you did everything right when you press the "Alt" key your HD with Windows 11 will be present. All this has been tested by me with OPCLP.
Huh. Been awhile since I've used Rufus and didn't know that it could download the ISO for you as well now. That's so cool! Will definitely use that when I update my USB install drives. Thanks.
I also have a Mac Pro 5,1 laying around with a busted PSU so as soon as I get that fixed I'll try this. Thanks again! :)
Great video Lance! I used your video years ago to upgrade my Mac processors on the 5,1 and I've always found your method very easy to understand and calming! (Helps when doing scary upgrades haha) thank you
@MacSoundSolutions Before jumping in, I try to summarize the procedure to follow for those attempting to install Windows 11 on a Mac Pro that has never run Windows:
Perform the Windows 11 installation as you brilliantly explained in your video. Pay particular attention to removing all disks from the Mac Pro except for the one containing Open Core.
- The target disk should be formatted as exFAT (it will be formatted as NTFS during the Windows installation).
- Its EFI partition should be empty.
After the installation is complete:
- Reboot into macOS to use Clover Configurator.
- Mount the EFI partition of the Open Core disk, delete the "Microsoft" folder (if it exists), and then unmount that partition.
- Mount the EFI of the target disk that now contains Windows 11, create a folder named "EFI," and copy the "Microsoft" folder that you shared in this conversation into that folder.
- Keep this EFI partition mounted before restarting and find the Windows 11 boot option in the Open Core boot picker.
Is it correct? Did I forget anything?
link to the my Microsoft folder... www.dropbox.com/s/a33k8i15ak768ss/Microsoft.zip?dl=0 looks good to me but I would have to try it myself to know.
Hi Lance, greetings from Portugal.
First of all i want to thank you for your fantastic work with these videos to maximize the use of the mac pro.
I want to share that, with your instructions, i manage to install w11 in a 1TB nvme and it works awsome.
thanks again.
Great to hear, thanks for posting, I love how well Windows 11 runs on the old beast.
I’m just starting out man I’ve been trying to install window’s forever on my Mac Pro 5,1 a million thanks
This install method is for Martin Lo’s Opencore package 0.8.6 and up. This is not for OCLP and folks have been having issues. Go to Mr Macintosh here on youtube and look at his video on installing Windows with OCLP.
Excellent video and tutorial Lance!
Thanks Jose did you install 11?
@@MacSoundSolutions Not yet, I need a blank 16GB or larger flash drive that I have to order.
Thank for the great help! I installed Windows 11 completely to desktop page in under 10 minutes by installing the installer on a HD on the sata drive. Amazing thank you!
Did you already have windows 10 installed and just updated to 11?
That was the full install from scratch. Blazing fast!
@@jon5784 wow, amazing, a lot of people have issues with the install. Would love to know all your steps, What version of opencore are you running?
@@MacSoundSolutions Hey Lance, so this is what I did: downloaded the latest opencore (0.9.4) from your link and installed. Downloaded rufus and downloaded Windows through it. At first I installed it on a usb thumbdrive but I was getting errors at 27% install. So I installed to hard drive with Rufus by pushing ALT + F at the usb picker. The installer loaded super quick on the 2.5 spinning hard drive, after which I laid the mac pro on its side and quick installed the 2.5 spinning drive on bay 3 (without screwing it into the sled). The main ssd was on bay 1 and opencore on an ssd on bay 2. Then it installed without errors in literally 10 minutes. Hope all that makes sense.
@@jon5784 Very cool, the lay it on it's side cracked me up! So you installed Windows onto which bay in the end bay 1?, FYI best to have opencore in bay 1 and windows in bay 2, The Mac looks at bay 1 for booting into mac os, so if opencore is in bay 1 it will chime and go to the bootpicker super fast. But if you move the opencore drive you have to re bless it.
Forgot the actual steps, but I believe with a cmd click(?) you can set the default selection in the boot picker. Could help during the installation
Bro you are awesome for years I wasn’t ab😅to put windows on my Mac. I’ve done everything else to this machine with no hiccups. But you my friend awesome. Thanks again.
I'd be interested to know if you can install it on the NVMe drive - they're so much faster than SSDs - don't plan to move back to windows but kinda nice to know its possible. Oh is your system a single or dual processor?
I’m planning on doing that on my single processor 5,1
It’s a dual and yes you can put windows on a NVMe burn you won’t notice a huge difference, on a standard sata it boots in about 5 to 10 seconds. I guess games can load files faster off the NVMe etc but you could also just use it for that or a scratch disk and not have the system on it.
Worked !!!! Thanks 😊 Installed windows 10 with same process .
Appreciate the upload
Glad to see u got this done! I talked with u a while back when I was trying to do a
monterey/ Uefi windows 11 dual boot from a Single nvme...The big concern was of course, bootrom corruption... issue solved: I also used martin lo's efi but as a double protection, you want to do the rufus creation of win 11 and not only remove TPM but also remove secureboot in rufus options I did Not see that option appear in ur rufus but it did in my version 3.17..... in one swoop, this removes the damn secureboot aspect of windows and thus no risk of it trying to write to the mac bootrom... does it work? yes! Ive confirmed it by dumping to rom and checking for microsofts secureboot certificates...none to be found brother...Been using it for about month and a half,zero issues.. Previously, I had tried a martin lo efi With secureboot functional in windows and it Was Not protecting the bootrom properly....rufus did the magic..mine is 2 partions on one nvme done in GUID format ....monterey apfs on 1 and the windows on the other formated in ntfs...EACH partition has its Own efi partition and folder...i did Not want to merge the 2 efis into one...I used macrium to image an operational uefi windows system complete with efi onto the ntfs partition...I did not use bootcamp..I keep martin lo's efi on a usb and it is Always the 1st boot device...all booting happens Thru the usb and never without it... like u said, win 11 is killer fast and boots win 11 in 3 or 4 secs for me... i use an rx570 in a 6 core 5,1.. bootscreen shows and I just pick win or mac and off I go...thought I;d share this with u and anyone else who wondered if it could be done.
Yes that’s the first check box in Rufus 3.21 to disable secure boot and TPM which is pretty sweet, nice you have the two OSs on one NVMe. thanks for posting.
Hey!!! I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I can't find answers anywhere.
I will take this road of 5.1/opencore/windows uefi and I am concerned about bootrom corruption, what can I do to avoid problems? Opencore + rufus removing tpm and secure booting, how about bootrom reconstruction (in macrumors is a must)?
Until this moment I was avoiding the opencore thing, but since we can boot windows from pcie it's a gamechanger.
Wow so this is a pretty big news as to this point it was unheard of using windows on an nvme drive in a 5.1. Would love to do this on my machine. Is there anything else i need to know or is there a guide somewhere to reference
@JohnWick I'm on the same boat, you need to check opencore (two variants: legacy patcher and martin lo (if you're using an amd gpu I will suggest you Martin Lo's). Next thing is windows 10/11 in uefi mode (opencore will provide you the ability to boot it), if you have already running windows in your Mac pro you can make a clone/conversion from legacy boot to uefi boot (I'm just doing it). But everything shows that it is possible and doable.
Good luck JohnWick.
@@MrJohndo18 yes you are protected with Martin and Rufus, bootrom reconstruction is not a bad idea although I have not done it, supposedly the newer OS s have chance of writing files to the bootrom and if that gets too full you have problems. But the whole process is a bit of a pain in the but and costs 50 bucks. So I have yet to do it but it I do I will post a video on it. I did a dump of my bootrom which is what you should do if your worried about it and it was getting full. Lots of panic kernels can lead to corrupt bootrom.
This worked great for me for months and months, but it seems like recently it keeps locking up and does the windows repair after three reboots. Has anyone else had this issue, I'm trying to figure out if it's from a recent Windows Features or Windows Update that recently happened. I can do reset, but then it works for one reboot and then stops again. This was a Windows 11 Pro install using Rufus just like you describe in this great video.
I moved my windows 11 drive from my 5,1 to 7,1 still works even with recent Windows updates.
Directions for Windows install when using OpenCore legacy patcher
dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/WINDOWS.html#installation-process
Wow, your 4k60fps videos look amazing, what camera do you use?
Thanks it was my iPhone 13 Pro now I have a 15. I think the 13 was a tad better for some reason.
Hi Lance, I’ve followed all your steps in Rufus, but in Windows after selecting my drive for installation I got this yellow triangle with the exclamation mark; “We can't create a new system partition or find an existing one. Refer to the Setup log files for more information.”
I’ve created the USB installer on my Windows laptop.
Any ideas or suggestion really appreciated.
Many thanks and keep up the good work 👍🏾
This happens when the installer sees something that confuses it like old efi partitions, try pulling all extra hard drives except the Opencore drive, make sure your target disk is formatted in exFAT and before you try the install again, mount the efi of the target exFAT disk with clover and make sure it’s empty as in nothing there, no efi folder and try again.
@@MacSoundSolutions Hi Lance, I've tried all your suggestions and the weird thing is that it takes me to the installation, preparing the install files to the disk, but it stucks at the final stage and brings be back again to the begin of the install. Is there a reason why you advised the exFAT format of the target disk, because you will have to reformat again during the installation. There's nothing with the drive because I've earlier used at with a MAC OS installation and reformatted to try this W11 installation.
Thanks for your time.
@@RobbertvanGomNeumann did you check to see if there is a EFI folder on the drive you are doing the install to? exFAT is a windows format thats why, if its formated to APFS Windows won't see it or Mac OS Journald. Make sure the drive has not old partitions etc. ARe you using OCLP or Martin Lo's package. OCLP has its own issues with WIndows.
@@RobbertvanGomNeumann did you get it to work in the end?
Hi Lance,
Thank you for all your content, one of the few "most clear videos" you can find about upgrading this machine.
Could you comment this part of the video 10:09 - 10:48 you mention that you have to “babysit” the whole process
So did the reboots look like that you have to wait the correct moment when to hit the “opt” key and then select the correct drive again or…?
Because at the end 10:43 you say this: “and finally it booted of the new drive”. This leaves me impression that during the process you don’t have to press anything.
So how did it actually look like during the process. Did you press/select anything by yourself or the windows installer selected all drives between reboots by itself?
it should just boot into the windows installer but the first boot you have to select the windows installer usb then from then it most likely will just keep booting into windows as it does the install but best to keep and eye on it incase opencore selects Mac OS instead.
You don’t have to hold down option at all just use the opencore bootloader.
Lance; Since you have the Open Core SSD in bay #1 is there a OS installed on this drive? I'm still reading up on this Open Core. Wasn't sure if a OS was required on the same drive.
You don’t need opencore to be on a system drive. I do have Big Sur on mine but it’s not my boot drive. Some people put opencore on a thumb drive no OS.
Hello, if it won’t be difficult for you, I’d like to ask for an advice. This method somehow doesn’t work on my Mac Pro, windows 10 stops install process on the copying step(0%) with an error. Windows 11 installer doesn’t even boot.I’m using Martin lo’s open core package.
Great video! Thanks.
Hi Lance,
So actually up to 6:50 everything ran nice. I did exactly everything you said in the video, even used the same Rufus release, but:
1. Rebooting the 5,1
2. Getting bootpicker with 3 options [ Moneterey; EFI(with disk image) and EFI(with USB image ]
3. Selecting EFI(with disk image)
4. Getting bootpicker with 3 options [ Moneterey(with double disk image); Recovery 12.7.3(dmg); UEFI_NTFS(with yellow external disk image)
5. As soon as I hit the as soon as I hit the UEFI_NTFS boot I get 5 minutes black screen and after that 5,1 reboots back to the bootloader... and I can restart the process infinite times... still no Windows installer logo.
I have:
Mac Pro 5,1 2010(ROM flashed - EnableGOP method)
- Bay 1: Monterey 12.7.3 + OC Martin Lo
- Bay 2: For Windows 11
- Bay 3: Mojave 10.14.6(removed for the Windows 11 installation)
- 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz (Westmere)
- 64Gb DDR3 EEC 1333MHz (8 x 8 Gb)
- 256Gb SSD
- Radeon PULSE RX 580 4Gb
- superdrive
Is your window drive formatted in ExFat before starting the install, I would mount it's EFI and make sure there is nothing in there, I did this a year ago but used the same thumb drive to install it on my Mac Pro 6,1 and it worked. There are other folks who had the same issue here so read some of the comments, some got it working but a few did not. I wish I could just give you a definitive answer, selecting the UEFI thumb drive. You might want to try it with a different GPU or perhaps the output changes to a different one on your GPU when you go to the next step. instead of HDMI it might switch to display port, but those are just guesses. Please post if you find the fix...
Yes, destination drive is in ExFat, Windows EFI is cleaned and empty. Only Monetery EFI has Martin Lo's OC.
Actually, 1 month ago, I scanned meticulously this video 350+ comments, by making notes(never done smth like this before). Yes, there were few comments about it, but without any answer or vital lead. @MacSoundSolutions
It is also not about the GPU - I really didn't want to litter this comment with following, but that prooves it is not GPU
(Also, about month ago I tried "your version" as well, but I didn't got to the windows installer by your instructions(same 5 minute black screen) I ended in Windows installer drive selection, but as the next button was gray and nothing worked I jumped over "jensdb - tutorial and got further, but still not to the finish. That was a mess which I didn’t want to post here because I jumped after every dead end to the next guide - not good idea - but I am so exhausted and annoyed about this “phenomen”, where everything you do is same, but still it doesn’t work - leaves you eith the feeling that “they” cut something from the guide :D :’)
As I said, I have followed every step as you showed and have like pretty much the same machine as you do.
Yes, I will keep you updated. But as this option didn't work for me.
I have been runnning Martin Lo's OC package on my cMP 5,1. Installed Windows to go on a second SSD and ran it well for a while, getting updates etc. One day, I was on a video call and my power surged. Computer shut down. After that, windows no work anymore. Tried to reinstall on three different SSDs. Two SATA III and one NVME. Keep getting blue screen when setting up the Microsoft account "Windows has run into a problem". Any idea the issue?
Create an install USB from ISO using Rufus (to disable TPM, 5,1 does not have this chip), start installation from OC bootpicker. Make sure you install to a different physical disk, in order to not erase your MacOS install.
When windows reboots, which disks do I choose? I currently have Mojave (for running legacy apps) and Monterey (Main OS after Wi-Fi card arrives), there’s also “recovery disks for each of the mac partitions. Open core is currently found on a Samsung 500GB SSD on bay 1 and seemingly “shared” between both Mojave and Monterey, I know I need to choose the UEFI drive in the first boot but subsequent reboots as part of the installation process requires choosing the correct drive and I’m unsure which one I’m picking (I need to pick within 5-10 seconds or OC automatically kicks me into Mojave since Monterey is useless without my wifi card), I will be installing to a 750GB partition on a 2TB NVMe ssd on a PCIe card (open core should still work as long as I keep the Samsung in bay 1?). I’ve also put my specs below in case they’re needed.
Mac Pro 2010 5,1 (not flashed)
2x Xeon X5650 2.66 (Waiting on my other X5690 to arrive, I’ve heard opencore is hardware specific but shouldn’t panic if I swap out CPUs right?)
32GB 1333 DDR3 ECC
Vega 64 8GB reference card (Waiting on the pixlas open ended dual 8 pin to arrive so it’s sharing power with my 950W PC power supply, ugly but it will have to do for the time being)
Samsung 500GB ssd bay 1(opencore installed on here along with Mojave and Monterey)
WD blue 2TB bay 2(my Time Machine backup drive but I’ve taken it out for the installation to be smooth)
Bays 3 and 4 are empty atm (usually some more hard drives)
2TB crucial NVMe ssd connected to an empty 16x PCIe slot, 1 APFS volume at 1.25TB for flexible storage, I’ve also moved aside a 750GB ExFAT partition (it will be NTFS once W11 is installed) for the W11😮
Thanks in advance, your videos have been so much help to me! ❤❤
@@老黑班长 not sure installing on a partition / shared OS drive is a good idea or if it will work. It might but may need some more investigation. I would pull out all drives except your opencore
Drive, install a new ssd in bay 2 or NVMe in PCIe but dedicate it to windows. You need to pick the windows installer more than once on boot, if you use the arrow keys to select a different drive from Mac OS that will stop opencore from booting a os until you select one and hit enter, so just hit the left or right arrow key and that will stop opencore from auto booting. Yes one install of opencore allows several OS installs but I think you will have a hard time installing windows on a shared drive with man OS better to dedicate a drive to windows. Also once windows is installed properly there will be a Microsoft folder in the efi folder with Opencore, if there is it’s best to move it to the efi of the windows drive. Windows installer gets confused if there are efi folders with stuff in them like older formatted hard drives ie Mac OS journald. I would def pull all
drives that are not needed for install, Time Machine pcie nvme etc and don’t have any external drives connected either. Let me know how it goes.
@@MacSoundSolutionsIt’s installing right now in the PCIe partition (it liked the drive after formatting it to NTFS), will let you know how it goes, for safety I’ve left the opencore drive in bay 1 but emptied bays 2,3 and 4
EDIT: It appears that windows didn’t like the partition, so I’ve cleared up some space in my main Samsung SSD where my macOS drives are found, I will see how that does.
@@老黑班长 one guy said he couldn’t get it to install and removed all his drives including opencore and it then installed but I think that is asking for trouble it can brick your Mac if windows writes to the bootrom. Again I think it’s best to install windows on a dedicated drive.
@@MacSoundSolutions I’ve tried it on a different hard drive in bay 2, however after formatting to NTFS I get an error “We couldn’t create a new partition or existing one.”, the hard drive has no partitions and is freshly formatted. What could’ve gone wrong?
Lance, thanks for this video. I followed this guide in the past and it worked perfectly fine for me. I’m not revisiting this using the same exact computers but Rufus is not showing the custom install options before copying the ISO files to the USB drive. I tried different ISOs, different versions of Rufus including the version you used, and different flash drives to no avail - I’m puzzled.
Are you logged in as the administrator of the computer your doing it on?
@@MacSoundSolutions I was. I ended up just downloading a very old version of Rufus from 3 years ago where the settings were in a drop-down menu rather than a pop-up menu like seen in your video.
I don't have a Windows PC, how can I install ICJ Trozdem on Mac Pro 5.1
Hi May I know how about the drivers thing. I downloaded the driver for Hd5770 but seems that windows doesn’t recognize it. Apologize for my bad english
Hello and best regards from Germany. Thank you for this great video, it's really easy to follow and I'll also do it on my Mac Pro 5.1 this weekend. I have another question, how do you install drivers in the end, even if everything worked? Or where does the Mac get drivers for Windows?
You just download windows drivers, you can also install bootcamp drivers without using bootcamp.
I did not do that, you install the GPU driver when in Windows AMD etc,
Bluetooth is a bit trickier as you have to go find unidentified bluetooth device and enable the generic Bluetooth driver, wifi just worked I believe. Any other drivers you just download and install while in windows.
🙏 thanks I’m going to try this and let you know
Hi there! I came across your video after trying to find solutions to the problem of black screen after booting into UEFI windows 11 through OCLP. What differences are there between OCLP's config.plist and Martin Lo's OC that prevent the black screen issue? Currently I'm dual booting Monterey with OCLP and using rEFInd to chainload legacy bios windows 10 because of the black screen issue doing it through OCLP UEFI. I really don't want to start from scratch, but I'm willing to do so if everything would work properly. Looking at the link to Martin Lo's OC package, it seems suited towards AMD cards? I'm using a Mac EFI flashed Geforce GT 640 in my MacPro 5,1.
The two are totally different I prefer Martins OC package for the 5,1 as it’s not patching the system, you need to check if martins supports your GPU first. I have no issues with black screen but I’m using a patched rx6800xt and before that rx5700xt. I’m really don’t know much about OCLP cause I don’t use it so can’t offer tips. I would look at Mr Macintosh here and you tube as he seems to have the most info for OCLP. With martins I just select windows or Mac OS when I boot from the bootpicker and it works very well.
@Mac Sound Solutions inc. I'm gonna test with a spare ssd installing monterey with Martin's OC. Then try uefi windows as dual boot and see what happens. I did watch Mr macs video about dual booting mac and windows on the 5,1 with OCLP and he says because of its age windows has to be installed in legacy. But you and quite a few others with this system seem to be having success with OC and Uefi windows, without the black screen issue in windows after windows installs the vid driver. I'll give it a try.
@@briantheoret6837 yes go with UEFI MICROSOFT says Windows 11 is UEFI only but I have been told that you can install it under legacy as long as you do the other check boxes and Rufus but I have not tried it. I would go with UEFI as Martin says his package only recognizes UEFI. Also once it’s done it’s a good idea to see where the Microsoft folder was placed, usually it goes in the opencore efi folder. Best to move it to the windows drive efi, creat a EFI folder and place the Microsoft fodder in it then delete the one that’s in the opencore folder.
Hi , the solution : Create the usb drive and the partition following the bootcamp instructions. When you go to select the installation disk choose your second hd and continue with the installation, it shouldn't give you any error. finished installing windows turn off the MacPro and remove your second HD. Enter macosx and delete the bootcamp partition, turn off the MacPro again and insert your second HD. Now if you did everything right when you press the "Alt" key your HD with Windows 11 will be present. All this has been tested by me with OPCLP.
Lance - one more thing. Win11 does not have drivers for the MacPro 5,1 Bluetooth and Wifi ... do you have any suggestions? or, do I need to upgrade the physical module? Thanks again!
With my upgraded card Wi-Fi just works, but Bluetooth built in driver in windows 11 had to be enabled in windows device manager / Bluetooth then select Broadcom whatever the model is. I think it shows up under Bluetooth “unknown” then a small list of devices come up
Hello and congratulations for your videos, truly exceptional. I installed windows 11 on my mac pro 5.1. But I have a problem starting up with "explorer". "explorer" doesn't open and therefore I don't have the central bar at the bottom. This problem does not arise always, but very often. If I restart "explorer" several times it eventually starts. Is this a known problem? Depends on what? :)
I don’t have that issue, I would run updates or reinstall the os, not really sure beyond that.
Hi Lance, I was able to install Win 11 on mac pro 5,1 with your help, but I can't get my BT and Audio out to work. Any advice ?
You have to go into Windows device manager, click on Bluetooth, then unknown device and then you need to pick the generic Broadcom driver. It does not get enabled automatically and this is from memory so you might have to dig around a little bit but you will get it working.
@@MacSoundSolutions thanks a lot !
were you able to solve the audio out problem in windows with opencore installed?
@@alexkurniawan3683 yes, everything works now
Seems as though using Rufus under VMWare causes it to not show the Windows User Experience window. I am not too sure why, but I had to boot into Windows 10 which I had already on a drive on my Mac Pro 5,1. Seems as though this time it will install.
Good vid there thank you.
thank you so much for another great tutorial. Wanted to install windows 10 on my 5,1 (with martin lo´s 0.8.7 package and monterey 12.6.2 on an nvmw). Now I´m intrigued for going straight to win 11 and got two questions: Do you still think after one week of testing, that win 11 is faster on the 5,1 then win 10? I´ve Win 10 in my 3,1 and its sluggish as hell, so really curious about the Win 11 performance. Second question would be if you Installed the Bootcamp drivers after your Win 11 installation or is there some other driver package I´ve not come across yet? Thanks mate and keep up your more then helping work!
My Windows 10 install was on a spinning hard drive and was super sluggish as well and quirky, with this install Windows 11 boots in a few seconds faster than Monterey and is really snappy as hell. Love it! No need for bootcamp drivers, Wi-Fi Bluetooth work, and my apple Magic Trackpad works although only for point and click, my Titan ridge also works. It’s night and day from windows 10 but honestly I don’t remember exactly how I did my 10 install I think I converted a legacy install to UEFI, W11 is UEFI only.
@@MacSoundSolutions Hi lance! sounds great and I´ll give it a try right away then. I installed my Win 10 via DVD/Legacy and got the Bootcamp 6 Drivers running with the help of Hrutkays Mods tutorial: ruclips.net/video/i0x96t8DSp4/видео.html - first it was running just fine and I could play games without any trouble, but after 2-3 month it started laggin like hell and now its just a pain in the behind. Will let you know how my Win 11 journey went :) cheers!
@@MacSoundSolutions hey lance - sooooo here´s a little update on my part:
1.) my usb installer wouldn´t show up in OCs bootpicker first. But @techpchouse tip with the NVRAM reset (mentioned in one of this comments here) helped and I could pick the Win installer in OC.
2.) lost 10h of my life trying to figure out why the hell windows wouldn´t install onto my 2TB ssd ( I knew 2TB for NTFS is the max. size). Even went so far formatting the drive with guid and NTFS in 3,1 with Windows 10. Finally I found out, that my disk was still to large?! so formatted a 250GB partition and the installer finally started - just to get an error right at the end before the first reboot... then I gave up and tried sth. different...
3.)I Installed it on a 1TB nvme in my Highpoint 7101a RAID controller (besides another 1TB nvme with monterey 12.6.2 and Martin Lo´s OC) - Installation was reeeeeeaaaaally fast and took only about 25min in total compared to your 2h - guess because of the higher speed of the nvme in the highpoint controller (I used a usb 2.0 stick too). So in the end I got Win 11 up and running!!! So thanks for that! :)
Another thing I had to do during the installation process was, when choosing the install drive, to delete every "subdrive" on the destination drive partition and then formatting the disk, selecting all "unused" space on that target drive. The target drive was formated beforehand in Monterey with guid partition and exFAT first (like you mentioned to @techpchouse).
4.) Win 11 really runs blazingly fast (guess the nvme helps too). Only thing I didn´t get running is Bluetooth (still have the oooold original BT module in my test 5,1, so maybe thats the problem) and my patched Titan Ridge 2.0 (could only find drivers for Win 10 on the gigabyte website and Intels thunderbolt drivers for Win 11 got me some error and crashes Win 11 after installation and I try to connect sth. - and Win 11 didn´t find any drivers at all by auto search) - so another question would be: how did you get your Titian ridge running? Cheers and thanks again!
@@jimicob9143 wow sorry for your troubles, but thanks for posting will help others. At first my Titan Ridge didn’t work, then I installed the windows 10 driver, so far for me it works for usb 3 but I don’t have any thunderbolt drives to test. The one I have is formatted in APFS, so may have to move stuff off it an reformat it in exFAT to see if it works. I have a inatek hub connected to the Titan ridge and it is able to power the hub and a ssd in usb 3.0 case. I read one person also had crashes with a windows 11 driver, and other say once formatted for Mac they don’t work but they do at least for usb 3. Also oddly my Magic Trackpad works and I never paired it or installed a driver, just point and click no gestures work, I have upgraded Bluetooth and WiFi. It’s amazing to me how blazing fast everything is with windows 11, I think I exaggerated how long it took me to install because I did it very late at night, but it was definitely over an hour or so. Just found a driver for Magic Trackpad github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad/releases/tag/2105-3979
@@MacSoundSolutions all good my friend! you saved me and so many others a lot of testing and troubles. least I can do is throw myself into the trenches and do some testing and document my found solutions, so others who stumble upon the same probs I had can prevent them - in the end we all learn from each other and can keep our cheesegraters alive :)
regarding the Titan ridge: I reinstalled Win 11 and tried the gigabyte drivers again. read that properly unzipping them should solve the issue (🤦♂). funny thing was, that unzipped there are two drivers. the first dhcp driver installed this time without any probs. But the updates driver was crashing my system again (later I saw, that the update installer seems to run in 32bit, what could maybe the cause of the problem?!). So I tried again without the update and the titan ridge didn´t gave me any driver issues any more in the system preference. Unfortunallty I couldn´t get my UAD Apollo 16 via TB3 to connect in any way or find any other connected device in the first place - guess I have some further testing to do
This might seem like a dumb question, but when you're babysitting the install and it restarts to the opencore picker, do you select the usb installer to continue or does it see the windows partial install at that point?
It boots into windows on its own after it’s done with the installer from what I remember or maybe you need to select windows in the bootpicker when it shows up for the first time when it’s done with the installer, sorry but it’s been quite a while since I did it.
@@MacSoundSolutionsthanks for the reply! I just did it myself and it came up in opencore and I had to select windows. I did then go into my macos where opencore is and mount the EFI to delete the boot folder as per Martin Lo's instructions for safety. For some reason i couldn't get windows 10 installed with his method. I assume it was windows being finicky about my set up and I'd heard that 11 was less so. I then ran into the problem of an old Mac not being supported by 11, so I used Rufus as per your video and it worked like a charm. Thanks!
@@scottyb4260 good to hear, it’s a good idea to put the Microsoft folder on the efi of the windows drive if it’s in your opencore efi folder then delete it from the opencore folder. This keeps things safe for your bootrom if opencore stops working for some reason.
@@MacSoundSolutions ah I see. Thanks, I'll do that. *edit: upon trying this out clover doesn't see an EFI partition on the windows drive so I have nothing to mount. Hmm.
Hi Lance. good video again. I been follow a fair amount of the videos from you, mr Mac and Jens others. I have two Mac Pro´s : a 4.1 upgraded to 5.1 dual xeon and a 2010 5.1. With this method i installed 3 various windows 11 versions on OC on the 5.1. with exactly same USB installer and same OCLP in other USB and a 4 x cmd+option+p+r and it worked perfectly on the 5.1 which is a single 4 core xeon (for now). Why the freaking heck will it not come past windows 11 format the drive part of the installation on the other machine being the 4.1 (now 5.1) ? same USB sticks same reset even the same SSD - and NOTHING in the other bays including the optical bay. Both firmware 144.0000 and i dont know what to do other than run my head into a brickwall :) please if there is a great idea - i would be grateful. PS shouldnt I be able to move disc from one to another if its same drive and same bootloader ? updated: tried, also doesnt booth win 11 which booths in the 5.1. ps its not Martin Lo but OCLP 1.5
I used the same thumb drive to install windows 11 on my Mac Pro 6,1 with OCLP and it worked. Not sure what your issue is but I would mount efi on the drive and make sure it’s empty, the one note is Windows will install it’s Microsoft folder on the efi of the opencore drive not the Windows drive, so if it doesn’t see the Microsoft folder at boot via opencore it won’t see the Windows drive, I moved my Microsoft folder to the Windows drives efi. That way it won’t get erased if I update opencore. I would try removing all drives but your opencore drive and reformat the drive you are installing Windows on, mount the Windows drives efi and make sure it’s clean. Then try installing again. Lots of people get stuck for one reason or the other, Windows can be a finicky bitch. You should be able to do the install a mac that works then move the drive, but make sure the Microsoft folder is moved to the Windows drives EFI. That’s all I got… good luck I feel your pain.
Rufus sind alles exe Dateien ?
Hi, the install was flawlessly but i have a problem with the wifi. I have OCLP with Monterey and i upgraded the wifi card to a Broadcom BCM4331CD which works perfect in MacOs but is not even recognized on windows. Idk if i need some drivers to it or i did something wrong. Also mention that i did an instalation of windows without activation key. Thanks sooo much for the time that you put into doing this videos and help people like me!
You have to go into windows device manager and enable it, look at Bluetooth and “unknown” device, something like that and then click on Broadcom etc it’s kind of buried. it was a long time ago now that I did this but it’s not recognized until you enable it. If you can’t get it working let me know and I’ll look at it next time I’m in windows.
@@MacSoundSolutions Hey Lance, really appreciate your fast response. Today i could conect it via ethernet and run all the updates that windows asked me. One of them was the Broadcom one so after it, the wifi card just got recognised!
Ok, I just did stupid thing:
I updated the latest Martin LO OC and Big Sur, but instead of overwriting the OC folder, I overwrote the EFI folder. And now I don’t have the option to boot my Windows anymore from OC. Is there any chance to get that back again? I have Win10 UEFI USB install ready, can I do the repair option (is it safe?), or do I have to install Windows again? Thank you.
BTW, thanks for the video ;)
By doing that you erased your "Microsoft" folder which tells opencore that you have Windows installed so not good... I can share mine with you, its actually best to move that folder to you Windows drive EFI so this does not happen again but try this and see if you get your Windows boot drive back in the bootloader by copying it to your EFI with Opencore installed, if it does then move it to the Windows EFI and delete it from the OC drives EFI. www.dropbox.com/s/a33k8i15ak768ss/Microsoft.zip?dl=0 you of corse need to unzip it, and not sure if this will work or not but let me know either way,
Does rufus still include at Win11 iso? It is not showing up in the "Boot selection" when I statup rufus. If not where is the best place to download a copy? Thanks. Excellent video.
You can download the iso directly from Microsoft
Excellent video Lance! I managed to install Windows 11 on my Mac Pro 4.1 (flashed to 5.1) with your instructions. I need Bluetooh and I have installed the AppleBluetoothInstaller64 driver located in Bootcamp/Drivers/Apple that I created from Bootcamp in Ventura. Do I need to install anything else? After restarting I still don't have Bluetooth. Thank you very much in advance.
Search the comments here, I have told people how to get Bluetooth working in some posts already but basically go to device manager, Bluetooth/ look for unknown device in the list click on it and enable the Broadcom generic driver, you don’t need to install boot camp drivers.
@@MacSoundSolutions Thank you very much Lance for your quick response. I can't reach the solution with your instructions. I go to the device manager and I see Bluetooh USB Host Controller displayed with a yellow danger icon under Other devices. Click on Bluetooh USB Host Controller and in the new window click the Update driver button. Two options appear, search for the driver automatically or browse my PC for drivers. I click on the first option and a progress bar appears and quickly indicates Windows cannot find drivers for the device. I can't get that list of generic drivers that you indicated where to find Broadcom. Any ideas? Thank you very much in advance.
Hi lance! Long time watching your channel- just subscribed (idk why it took me so long) I’ve been trying to install windows 11 on my 5,1 (running Martin lo’s open core package). I keep running into the issue described a few times in the comments where the install fails (addressed with OlavaAf’s findings). I got windows 11 to take on my ssd but the EFI partition was removed in the install. I found that windows put a file in the EFI on my opencore drive which also has my MacOS on it. Will this situation brick my Mac? Thanks for years of great videos!
I did use Rufus for the install drive, and the opencore drive is in bay one and wasn’t removed during install.
@@Cushmardude I wrote a long comment this morning and right when I finished your comment and my comment disappeared😮 anyway your EFI does not get deleted because it’s a hidden partition on all hard drives just the folder named EFI got deleted, but if your Mac is still booting windows, no problem as long as open core is installed you will not brick your Mac it’s when you boot into windows without the safety net of open core that you can then brick, your Mac but you should be able to mount the EFI of your windows drive using clover, or Martin Lowes, new mounting app that comes with the latest open core package, and you can move your Microsoft folder from the open core EFI to the windows hard drive EFI actually you’re better off using clover because it allows you to mount two EFI at once where is for some reason the new little app Martin includes only lets you mount one EFI at a time but the reality is you’re probably OK and don’t need to do anything just make sure you’re always booting up with open core first. So what was the workaround to get windows to install in the first place people asked me that question a lot where it gets stuck on them and I’m not really sure what the answer is.
@@MacSoundSolutions That was weird, I just happened to come back to see what I had wrote in the comment, and didn’t see it anymore! Honor talking to you Lance, I’ve been following you for years and unknowingly you have helped me on many occasions from processor upgrades to opencore installs. Thank you for putting this information out there and for helping to inspire others!
I pretty much made a mess of my 5,1- I’m in the process of totally redoing it as I type this out. So i ended up accidentally deleting the efi partition of the disk I was trying to install windows 11 on, and long and the short of it- it smoothly installed windows on that disk. The problem was - after it was installed, I had no efi partition to move that windows file from my opencore ssd over into. Honestly, I panicked that I was going to brick my machine so I hastily deleted the file- and rendered my windows partition unusable. To make matters worse, in that haste I preformed an nvram reset which sent the 5,1 into an uncontrolled boot loop.
Anyway- one takeaway is that there must be something in the “windows gets confused by the multiple efi disks” on install thing. I’ve read about people pulling their opencore disk to do the install/ but I definitely heeded your warning on that. I tried different thumb drives, different Rufus versions, different windows 11 download versions and absolutely nothing allowed me past that “failed to boot next step” failure. But once the efi partition was removed it installed right away. Im not sure if having that folder in my opencore efi would hurt me long run or if maybe I can make a partition in the install process that I could mount later with clover to get that file moved over.
@@Cushmar I think that is the key you don't want anything in the EFI folder of the disk when you are installing Windows a drive and folks use old drives with old stuff in the EFI. One should format in EXFAT and make sure nothing is left in the EFI befoore doing the install. After the install is done move the Microsoft folder onto the EFI. No need to make a partition, the EFI is always there, it is a hidden partition, you can't erase it you can only delete what is on it. Thanks for subbing, new video almost done. I don't make them very often as life and work get in the way but glad I have helped folks along the way with their 5,1 :)
@@MacSoundSolutions
So since we last talked I have been unable to get windows 11 to take to my 5,1. I keep taking breaks from it and trying to come back at it from different angles. It’s so strange because it’s now doing exactly what others have said with black screens. At first I thought my thumb drive was corrupt so I wiped it and used Rufus to create a new 11 installer, but that didn’t work. Tried other thumb drives but those didn’t work either. I wiped everything on the Mac and did a NVRAM reset then started from scratch installing opencore and re-blessing the install. Everything seems fine as far as Mac OS and opencore- I was able to upgrade to the latest Monterey version with no issues. The thumb drive appears in my boot loader but once it’s selected it will just display a black screen. No windows installer will appear- but when I analyze the drive on the 5,1 or on my windows laptop- all proper files appear to be present. Really a head scratcher.
why when i enter windows via opencore according to your video, my speaker doesn't work and isn't detected via 3.5 audio jack? is there a solution for this problem?
Try installing bootcamp drivers but be sure to remove the AMD graphics drivers from the asset folder before installing the bootcampmdrivers
@@MacSoundSolutions thanks Lance, you solved my problem!
I followed the instructions with Rufus to a USB flash drive to install Windows 11 on a reformatted SSD to my 2009 5,1 (upgraded firmware) Mac Pro. My SSD with macOS (with rEFInd bootloader) was in SATA drive bay 1 and W11 SSD was in bay 2 like your video suggested. I was able to install it in about 30 minutes and it seemed that I didn't need to baby sit it for very long. It rebooted twice and then I installed the drivers via Windows Update. After that I had to press the Option (Alt) key to select my macOS drive and reinstall rEFInd again as it rebooted only into W11 only. After the bootloader was setup again, I was able to get back to Windows 11 again. Then I ran into a problem.
After this weekend though, every time I try to get back into Windows, It shows the loading icon on startup, and then the screen goes blank and nothing happens after. Now I see the logo, Automatic Repair / Diagnose Your PC, then taking to the menu saying "Your PC didn't Start correctly". Keep in mind, the SSD where it was installed was a drive that previous had Windows 10 and Linux Mint. I got rid of all partitions and reformatted it into a Health RAW drive via the command prompt (ran as admin). The normal windows installation did format the drive to install it, so I don't think I made any mistakes along the way. Any suggestions as to why this is happening and how to get into Windows 11 or should I reinstall it?
Are you using opencore? Specifically Martin Lo’s version?
I enjoyed your tutorial as it was easy to do by the way :)
@@MacSoundSolutions No, I am using rEFInd boot manager. I can try installing it and see what happens. When I booted up earlier today before commenting today, I am seeing an error code 0xc00000e from Windows. This indicates it may be a loose connection from the SATA port to the SSD which likely happened.
@@8mandolin well your on your own then, Martin’s opencore version helps protect your bootrom from getting over written by windows leaving your Mac un bootable. In other words you can brick your Mac. Someone did say that Rufus also protects if you have all the check boxes checked but I don’t know that for sure.
@@MacSoundSolutions I definitely checked all the boxes on Rufus and I didn't brink my Mac Pro which is great. I am able to successfully boot into macOS.
Do you need to install bootcamp drivers?
No you don’t but you can grab drivers after installing windows. But you can download them and install the boot camp drivers if you want. I just installed windows 11 on my 6,1 running OCLP and everything works except audio out of the line out still trying to figure it out.
@@MacSoundSolutions could you link me the drivers if there’s no hassle? I’ve tried installing the latest bootcamp drivers and it started blue screening
@@ch1ckenballswith my 5,1 i didn’t use the bootcamp drivers, it depends on your hardware I can get them for you, I got my keyboard driver, wifi just worked, Bluetooth I had to go to device manager and select unsupported Bluetooth and then select the generic Broadcom windows driver and that worked. GPU needs to downloaded from AMD etc. use a wired keyboard and mouse to grab things. Fist thing to install is the graphics card driver. I use my board for sound which is USB and always have to turn it on after the computer is booted or switch sample rates to wake it up, it also has a driver. Not sure I even get sound out the built in Macs sound output.
Hello, I recently bought a mac pro 5.1 and want to run windows on it via opencore so that I can continue playing my games. Because my gpu drivers only support high sierra, I can't continue to mojave. Can I still run opencore on this? And when you mean your opencore drive, do you mean your original boot drive with in my case just high sierra on it? Currently my boot drive is mounted in bay 2 (ssd), so if I understand correctly I should also move it to bay 1?
Opencore can be on any drive, it does not have to be your OS drive. If your booting into an old OS better to not put opencore on it. You should update the 5,1 firmware via Mojave installer. I install opencore in bay 1 because that’s where the 5,1 first look for the OS, so it boots the
the fastest because opencore then points the computer to where your boot drive is so for the fastest boot times you want open core on Sata bay one but you do not have to have an OS on the drive. Use Martin Lo’s Opencore package it does not patched the OS like OCLP. Windows needs to be installed in UEFI mode.
I followed your guide but after booting the first time from the internal drive Windows 11 sucks at the Windows logo. I tried it several times. Always the same. All the steps before work like they are supposed to work. Any idea?
Some folks seem to have issues like this, are you using OCLP or Martin Lo's OC package? It may be a OCLP issue. Make sure to have your OC drive installed, you should get the OC bootloader then boot select the Windows 11 usb installer that you created. It took a few reboots for me. Also only have the SSD you are installing windows on and you r OC and Mac system installed. Other drives may have old EFI folders that confuse the installer.
Be careful about explaining the drive number labelling as it’s not quite accurate.
For example, this is completely different for me and that might be due to the fact that I have 2 SSDs in the optical bay… one of which hosts Windows 11.
What I’ll also say, is that it seems that the SATA bays appear to take boot priority too (if not blessed), so maybe boot time can be improved by moving OC to one of the drives in the SATA bay :)
In the video I say if you want the quickest boot times with OC you should have OC installed in sata Bay 1. I also say be very careful on choosing your drive that you are formatting to put Windows on, as it's not easy to tell as they are not labeled and remove all unnecessary drives you don't need to do the install, the only way to really tell what drive is what is by the drives partition size. You are using both optical bays so yes the numbering is going to be different, but I am guessing they show up after the main hard drive bays? Or do they start at drive 0? Be great if you post exactly how they show up. I guess the labeling always changes depending on how many drives are installed and where they are located.
@@MacSoundSolutions In my case:
Disk0: 120GB Storage SSD in Optical bay
Disk1: Windows 11 256GB SSD in Optical Bay
Disk2: macOS Monterey and OC - Bay 1
Disk3: 500GB NTFS HDD for Storage - Bay 2
Disk4: 1TB HDD APFS for Storage - Bay 3
Disk5: 2TB HDD APFS for Storage - Bay 4
@@aaron-roberts thanks for posting, so what drive do you have opencore on? And what adapter do you use to put SSDs in the optical bay
@@MacSoundSolutions already mentioned which one has OpenCore (Bay 1 aka listed by Windows as “Disk2”)
I don’t use any adapters, as SSDs are so lightweight, they’re simply screwed in on one side of the bay using the same screws as provided with the Mac Pro.
@@aaron-roberts hey one last question when you boot from Mac OS into windows do you do a restart and then select windows in the boot picker or do you shut down and then do a cold boot and select windows? With windows 10 if I did a restart from Mac OS and then pick Windows it would always cause problems and windows would get stuck or go into repair mode, so I always go into Windows from a cold boot.
Since i using opencore and already installed win 11, so i dont have to install bootcamp driver. And the system will recognize all the drivers?
it should I did not install any bootcamp drivers but if you have a new bluetooth wifi card you have to enable it under unkonw device in device manager then select the correct broadcom driver.
Can you install windows 11 in a partition on the same nvme drive that has open core and Monterey partition?
You need to creat a exFAT partition in a APFS container and it should work Indid exactly this with my 6,1 Mac OS Windows 11 with OCLP Sonoma and Windows 11. Windows can be finicky when seeing multiple EFIs. also once windows is installed it’s best to move the Microsoft folder to the Windows NTFS EFI partition. And always have opencore running.
So found out the hard way Drive 0 is the first drive installed so if you add to the second DVD connector thats drive 0 or any first drive in the chain..
Ouch yes someone else posted you have to be carful with the drive numbering as it depends on your configuration.
No, you do NOT have to be in windows to create an installer. I used the BootCamp tool to create a Win10 and Win11 USB installer.
Windows 11 has to be a UEFI install for Martin Lo’s OC package to be able to see it in the bootloader once installed. Seems you are not using Rufus. Bootcamp creates legacy windows installs. I had Windows 10 legacy converted to UEFI running when I created the 11 installer with Rufus. Are you using opencore and Monterey? Maybe with OCLP it’s a different story.
Great video Lance. With your help I have a fully functional Win 11 environment on my 5,1 with the exception of the bluetooth function on the Broadcom BCM94360CD. Wifi works but not bluetooth. When booting up in the 12.7.2 MacOS both bluetooth and wifi work fine. I haven't found a driver that works for the Win 11 bluetooth. Any suggetsions?
Yes I have the fix you have to go to windows device manager, click on Bluetooth, unknown device click on it and then you should get a list of generic Broadcom drivers, I’m not in front of my Mac at the moment, but this worked for me which my updated WiFi Bluetooth card. WiFi just worked but Bluetooth had to go in and load the driver that’s built in to windows.
If you still can’t get it working let me know I can boot nip and have a look.
Great video! I got this to work once but now (on another machine) my USB drives are not showing up on my boot picker. They are shown in Finder but not in boot picker. Running OCLP. Also tried on a machine without OCLP on the classic mac boot picker and they don't show there either. I tried various things but can't get them to show. Any ideas on what is going on and how to fix?
Try updating OCLP to the latest version I think they fixed the usb 1.1 with Ventura issue. Don’t use a huge or card use the built in ports
@@MacSoundSolutions hey thanks for this video ! But I have the same problem the USB drive created with Rufus doesn't show up in the OCLP bootpicker. I have version 1.5.0 of OCPL and the Sonoma running just fine. Any other idea to get this drive showing up ? Thanks.
Keeps getting blue screen after installing bootcamp drivers on MacBook Pro 2012
The bootcamp drivers are installing graphics drivers that are erasing the one out in by opencore,
You need to remove the AMD graphics drivers from the bootcamp drivers folder before installing bootcamp drivers same thing happened to me when I went I installed bootcamp drivers on my Mac Pro 6,1
Thanks for your video. I've installed it work perfectly. But I have a sound issue. There's no sound even if the volume icon appear well. Do you have a solution for that?
Good question I use my M32r mixer and had to install and older driver to get sound working, what are you using for sound. You may have to install bootcamp drivers to get audio out of the built in Mac but I would guess hdmi would work out a graphics card with its driver installed. You have to go to the device manager and check sound settings driver etc also when I first boot into windows I have to wake up the usb audio connection with my board by switching 48k to 44.1 back to 48i wait a second then it works, or boot your interface after the computer is fully booted into windows and that should do it.
I had to download a Realtek audio driver to get sound.
So can you have a SATA SSD with two partitions? One with OS Monterey and Opencore and the other partition formatted NTFS for Windows 11? All in one drive in drive bay A?
I would not do that, it’s best to keep them separate. but some people have done it, it’s best to keep move the Microsoft folder that gets written to the opencore drives efi during windows install to the windows drives efi folder. This protects you from Windows writing over your Macs bootrom and bricking your Mac. It can be done but I think it’s best to have them separate.
@@MacSoundSolutions thanks for your quick response. I’ve been debating between Opencore Legacy and ML because I currently have Mac OS and Bootcamp setup on the same drive and wasn’t sure if ML Opencore could do it the same way.
@@Bloodklot ML is UEFI install only, no bootcamp needed except for drivers, but I didn’t need them for windows 11. I believe OCLP uses bootcamp but not sure.
I keep trying to install windows 11 on my mac pro 5,1 under oclp 1.01 and every time I try to add bootcamp drivers or the amd graphics software for my rx 6600xt it keeps corrupting my windows install? Any idea how to prevent that? I really want the graphics drivers and I need bootcamp drivers for bluetooth. any help or ideas you may have would be awesome. Thanks!!
I don’t have experience with OCLP and Windows 11 but 11 is UEFI not Legacy, You don’t need the bootcamp drivers to get wifi and Bluetooth working. So I would try a UEFI install of Windows 11 and install the AMD drivers. The. Deal with wifi and Bluetooth. Check my wifi Bluetooth install upgrade video, I explain how to get the Bluetooth working in the comments section. Good luck.
What boot camp drivers did you install if any?
I didn't install them.
Update I installed them in my new 7,1. You can just launch bootcamp go up to the menu and download the drivers, put them on a usb stick boot into windows and install. If you are using some other AMD drivers like Adrenalin you can delete the AMD folder in bootcamp drivers before installing. Now can switch between both OS without holding option.
I struggled all day trying to get Windows 10 OR Windows 11 to install on my Mac Pro 5,1. I have Mojave installed on one drive, Monterey on another, with OpenCore. Each time I try to go through the install it either says it can't use the partition or that it can't find it, or it isn't able to "boot from install" etc. - I tried copying the files directly to the c: drive to install from there, no dice. I tried the Rufus method as well as manually editing registry keys to bypass the windows 11 check. No dice. Same results. I'm about to try to install windows from another PC and then just slide the drive in to see if it will boot from there... this is ridiculous lol
Pull all drives but OC and the drive you are installing windows on and put it in sata bay 2. I formatted my windows drive in exFAT first so no old partitions. Rufus will bypass checks for windows when selected.
@@MacSoundSolutions thank you! I ended up having to put the drive in another PC, install windows 11, then swapped the drive into the mac and was able to boot via EFI. Maybe it was the drive being formatted as NTFS that was causing issues? Luckily the other PC running windows had UEFI support in BIOS. Seems to be running well although it did hang a few times during software installs.
@@Neverkilltime i am trying for 4 days to install win 10 and no sucsess on my 5.1. I also thought to install windows onto the harddrive on a windows pc, do you have any suggestions what to keep an eye put for? Greetings ✌🏼
Thanks u so much! I have one problem im stuck in windows screen. It's normal? Thanks
Im installing Windows 10.
Just let it go it may seem stuck but it will move forward be patient, same thing happened to me. Give it an hour if it’s still stuck try again, mine said it was installing with a certain amount of time left but seemed stuck and I left it alone then it eventually moved forward
@@MacSoundSolutions Ok. Thanks a lot!
i tried you cant start the install on a APFS Drive
needs to be exFAT.
Hi Lance, are you able to play the latest games on your Mac Pro just like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 or NBA 2K24 with Windows 10 or 11? Mine I have a Radeon 5700xt video card on my Mac Pro with the latest Windows 10 installed and also the latest Radeon driver but unfortunately the COD MW3 wouldn’t launch and the NBA 2k24 crashed. Some of my other games Forza Horizon 5 I can play. Thanks in advance if you have a solution on this issue.
The issue is to find out if a game requires AVX2 to run, the Xeons in the 5,1 do not support it. I run quite a few modern games, cyberpunk, RE4 remake etc no prob but Call of Duty is one of those games that requires AVX2 some games updated to remove that restriction and some have it. So it’s an issue, and it’s the same reason you can’t install Ventura or Monterey without OCLP and you need a compatible GPU but even if you can run the modern OS those game will still not work. But you can play them via a web streaming gaming service as a work around for games that require it.
@@MacSoundSolutions Okay Lance thanks for your reply and information. Right now I just upgraded my OS to Monterey with the latest Martin Lo OpenCore patcher but my legacy wifi and blue tooth are not working now.
@@aixcelest3919 yes unfortunately you need to upgrade your BT WiFi card, I have a video on how to do it or switch to OCLP as it works with legacy cards but you don’t get things like handoff etc
@@MacSoundSolutions Thank you Lance for the info.
@@aixcelest3919 I had the same issue but worked it out by entering the config.p.list when you mount your EFI drive in the OC folder. There you will see BlueToolFixup.kext
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Fix Legacy Bluetooth
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......and..... Bluetooth Patch for BRCM2046 and BRCM2070
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.....change the code from false to true in those instances and once you reboot it should be back
Hi there, thanx for all the videos, you are doing a great job, you definitely have a mellow way of explaining stuff : ). I installed a 6900XT in my 5,1 now I am tying to install windows 11 with Rufus. After making the stick I try to reboot with ALT pressed but I don't get the Bootpicker. The 6900 XT just let me see a black screen after booting with ALT pressed. I am running Monterey 12.6.2 The stick doe also not show up in Startup disc in system prefs. Any other way to startup from the thumb drive? (My son has also a 5,1 running Bootcamp and windows 10 if this might in come handy for building a windows 11 startup disc)
you don't need to hold down the option key on boot, the USB instller should show up under the opencore bootpicker on boot. Are you using Martin lo's opencore package or something else?
Thank you for your reply. I am pretty in the dark here since I am pretty new to this. I installed Monterey with OpenCore Legacy patcher v04.10. Never used Martin lo's opencore package. I heard you talking about it. Do I have to install this first? Do you have a video on the Martin lo's opencore package by any chance? Thanx so far
@@floflo-wf7ic if you are using OCLP you cannot also use Martin's package you would have to start over. It is designed for the 5,1 Mac only. and install is very easy. Search Martin Lo here on youtube for his channel. I am about to start work so can't chat further. Check out Mr Macintosh for how it install Windows with OCLP here on youtube. Although some folks seem to use my method for OCLP and Windows I have not tried it, read up in my comments section for others who have posted info on it.
So if the OpenCore drive fails?
Fails how exactly? You have to fall back to a Mojave or earlier Mac OS and reinstall opencore if opencore is no longer working.
Interesting video, thank you, i got a older macpro, it has a new disk, it starts up, showing grey window (in middle blinking ?map icon), do you know a way to install opencore over usb ?thank you for your answer and have a nice day
You should boot in recovery mode, hold down command r at boot make sure you are connected to the internet and install a system then you can install opencore. Or create a bootable usb and install opencore on it. Check out Mr Macintosh here on RUclips for opencore legacy patcher, or Martin Lo opencore package which is what I use and prefer, you can update to Monterey after you install Mojave if it’s a Mac Pro 5,1
@@MacSoundSolutions great, i have tried,i have to loginto with apple id, entered the six-digit verification code, then i get error: This Apple ID has not yet been used with the App Store., googling now for this issue
fixed the apple id error, now that i am starting the installation i get following error: This item is temporarily unavailable Mac error.... dahm........ i just try to make a young kid happy with his first macpro...... if i knew that it was going to be so difficult.......all tips and tricks are more then welcome!, thank you very much
i downloaded the DWG, with transmac i have created a usb boot stick, starting the macpro wit alt pressed, only grey screen, its like it doesnt sees the sticks, i have tried severals, :-( please advice, thank you very much
@@hanshoogstrate4102 what system are you trying to install? You can go to mrmacintosh.com and download older systems, try installing Mojave, you will be instructed to update the firmware of the Mac Pro.
Hi thank you for the information i follow your step to install windows 11 on mac pro 5,1 after the install my screen goes black can you help me with this problem
Are you using Martin Los package or OCLP?
yes im
There is no bootable option in the bootpicker for me. I don’t know why. Tried different usb ports, tried different usb sticks. Nothing. It just dosen’t see the usb. But in MacOs it is there. Can sombody suggest anything?
What Mac OS are you on, what version of opencore? Martin Lo or OCLP. The installer has to be a UEFI install for Martins to see it. I think but not sure OCLP should be legacy. But when I did this install I had Windows 10 already running and it was converted to UEFI. Martins Opencore needs to see a “Microsoft” folder that lives on a EFI of one of your drives preferably not your OpenCore drive, so that might be why your not seeing the installer. I could share my Microsoft folder with you and that might do the trick not sure. I moved it from my opencore efi to its own drive where windows is installed. Some people get this to work and some people go through hell. 🤷♂️
@@MacSoundSolutions I’m running MacOS 12.6.6. Monterey + Martin’s OC pack 0.9.2. in sata bay 1. Never had Windows installed. Got a clean SSD in sata bay 2. Installer is indeed UEFI, just like in the video.
I didn’t get it: where do I need to put the Windows folder?
@@remz90 sorry I meant “Microsoft” folder, I will upload and send you a link, I will .zip it unzip and place the Microsoft folder on the EFI of the drive you are installing windows. This should then show the installer in opencore boot picker in theory. This folder gets written to the efi when you have a successful windows install. And that is how opencore sees the windows drive, without it opencore won’t show the windows drive. Another way to go is use a friends windows machine if possible and do the install there then put the drive in the Mac. Other folks have done the risky method of removing the opencore drive, and then installing, the Mac should see the thumb drive but you run the risk of corrupting your bootrom so not really suggesting this, it has worked for some and Rufus should protect it but again I have never done this method. I will post a link here to my Microsoft folder for you to grab, once you have it let me know and I’ll delete it.
@@remz90 put the "Microsoft" soft forlder in the drives EFI that you are installing Windows on. Use clover to mount the drives EFI it should be empty then put the folder in it. See if the installer then shows up after rebooting in the opencore bootpicker with your thumb drive plugged in. www.dropbox.com/s/a33k8i15ak768ss/Microsoft.zip?dl=0
@@MacSoundSolutions It is done! I have completed Windows 11 install. I can’t thank you enough, cause that “Microsoft” folder really got things going.
But man, it was not an easy install!
I think there are some tips can be gathered from this:
1. You have to have Microsoft folder on the EFI partition of the target drive. And it usually obtained from previous Win installs or like manually placing it there like we did. If you go for it barebones, there is nothing.
2. Seems like you want to leave EFI partition mounted after placing the Microsoft folder there. I couldn’t make it visible in the bootpicker untill I rebooted without unmounting the EFI partition.
3. Apperently, I had to delete the target drive AND EFI partition on it in Windows coustom installation to make the whole drive a gaint “Unallocated space”, then hit Next. That took me a lot of trial and error, Windows just did’t want to proceed untill I did so.
After that it was a breeze, almost every hardware was detected by Windows apert from BT/Wi-Fi (I have Broadcom BCM94360CD - common cMP upgrade) and sound drivers. Just downloaded these drivers manually from another comp amd deployed them via usb-stick.
Now everything works! Win 11 is indeed snappy, even on my yet unupgraded xeons e5520.
Thank you again!
very intriguing video. I may not do this install because I lost interest in Windows. I like Linux Ubuntu and Mac OS. Sill it may be important to stay familiar with Windows because you may become unfortunate enough to have to get an actual job where Windows is a required.
why after installing win 11 the sound doesn't work ?
Can you be more specific? Sound doesn’t work under what OS. I use a USB mixing console and had to install driver for it to work in Windows. For the built in Mac sound card you most likely have to go to system prefs and select the correct output in windows system settings.
I will do this today :)
let me know how it goes.
@@MacSoundSolutions I tried it step by step as you shown. I'm using the same OC Version like you, but on Big Sur, already got windows 10 on the drives.
After I restart, go into the bootlicker, the win 11 usb drive does not show up... :( so I couldn't install windows 11
@@techpchouse did you remove your windows 10 drive so only the thumb drive is connected to the built in usb port? Only one windows drive seems to show up
@@MacSoundSolutions the usb installer with ein 11 shows up now after I made a NVRAM reset 2x times :) will install tomorrow. Now it’s bed time
@@MacSoundSolutions Update: I put my clean ssd to bay 2, bay 1 is OC. Booted into the windows 11 stick, formated bay 2, and when I want to start, it says that the installation is not possible on this Partion :( I did a little bit recherch and the problem comes from the fact, that windows wants to creat files on the first boot drive.
Hi when i got to the drives bootcamp was showing so i clicked that it took only about 10 minutes to be up and running, i hada usb 3 but thanks it got me there.
Don’t quite get what you are saying here, what Mac OS are you on and what version of Opencore? Bootcamp is not needed except for drivers for apple peripherals, I did not use bootcamp at all.
Thanks so much, it worked after i made sure there was not partitions on the new ssd, after a few times trying there was a partition that my mac could not format in exfat, I fixed doing the format in a windows pc, slow format. Now my question is, should I update windows 11 with the latest uodates? Or it is going to give me some issues? Thanks and i hope someone could answer my question.
@@Robpavezc I have run updates but turn off auto updates, so I do it manually but have not had any issues so far.
I have an issue with my windows 11 installation. I did exactly as you said, and I have no sound at all. I’m running a Mac pro 5,1.
I tried to download the boat drivers, but the latest Boot Camp installation doesn’t come with the Apple audio drivers at all. Can anyone help me?
Need more info, no sound in Mac OS or just Windows? What port, built in sound output? I have to power up my board m32r connected via usb 2 port after I boot windows or while it’s already booted my new trick is to switch the sampler rate from 48k to 44.1 and back to 48k that wakes it up. I did have to install drives but built in Mac ports don’t need drivers. Go to the device manager in windows / usb and maybe you have to enable something, that being said I have not used my built in ports for sound with windows, if my board is not powered on it usually reverts to hdmi audio out my monitor so if you have a hdmi display your audio could be going there. You don’t need Boot Camp drivers
@@MacSoundSolutions just windows that I have no sound in, I tried to download the cirrus drivers but that didn't work
@@MacSoundSolutions the port is through the audio headphone jack port in the rear
@@Spartanshaq777 and does it not work in Mac OS as well? Try a smc reset if that doesn’t work try a pram google them for Mac Pro 5,1 you need a wired keyboard to do pram reset.
@@MacSoundSolutions oh it works beautifully in mac os, it's just windows that it doesnt work. At least the headphone jacks
Thanks a lot….. brother
Did the install work?
Hi Lance, i followed your instructions step by step, everything runned well, until i did a NVRAM Reset ! Now, i can't see Windows 11 from boot screen, OC will only show me Mac OS and the recovery partition. I was able to see Windows 11 before doing NVRAM reset. Any idea please ? I spent hours 😢
What was the reason for pram reset? Mount your efi with opencore in it and see if there is a Microsoft folder in it. Sometimes pram reset will erase the Opencore blessing, you can try and re bless opencore, make sure sip is off.
@@MacSoundSolutionsI did it , just thinking it was good to perform a nvram reset after a fresh install . Yes there is a Microsoft folder inside my efi folder
@@lyndon9210 hmm not sure, I have done pram resets and it did not effect my windows install. One thing to try is to move the microsoft folder to the windows drives efi and delete it from the opencore folder. So it's EFI /EFI folder / Microsoft. Both my OpenCore and Windows drives have a Boot folder with bootx64.efi and the Microsoft folder which also has a boot folder within it. What opencore are you using and what Mac OS? CHeck out this pic the opencore efi is on the left and the windows in on the right. www.dropbox.com/s/zlogucha80yw3k0/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-17%20at%203.27.09%20PM.png?dl=0
@@MacSoundSolutions I'm going to give a try, thanks. I'm using Mac OS Monterey and Martin Lo latest package. BTW, i noticed if i replace Martin Lo Package by the OCLP , it shows again my windows partition. I don't understand what's wrong..
@@lyndon9210 i added a pic in my last message have a look. Not sure how you could be swapping Martin's with OCLP?
It start to install then I get the “Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation “ I followed exactly what you did with same Rufus, same windows 11 version except I am using open core legacy patcher.
One thing to check is mount the EFI on the drive you are trying to install windows on there should be nothing on the EFI as in no EFI folder. Also remove all other drives accept for OCLP drive and the one you want to install windows on. Older drives might have EFI on the them with firmware etc, and that can mess with Windows install. Read some comments below as well as one other commenter had the same issues and resolved it.
@@MacSoundSolutions I was installing it on its own SSD on bay 1 disk 0 and I do have the other drive loaded with Ventura and that is where the OCLP is on. Is it possible to install open core on a usb thumb drive and then install windows from another usb thumb drive
@@robertwilliams2762 I would head over to Mr Macintosh channel and see how he says to install Windows with OCLP. You cannot mix the two versions Martins with OCLP. But if you look in The comments someone had the same issue. Or use a friend’s computer to install windows on the SSD and then put it into the Mac pro but I have a feeling “legacy Patcher uses a very different method to install windows just not sure cause I don’t use it.
@@robertwilliams2762 the two thumb drive idea could work, again look at the efi of the drive you are installing windows on, how was it formatted before the install?
@@robertwilliams2762 look at my pinned post he had the same issue
When i click UEFI NTFS i just get a blank screen then it throws me back to the boot picker?
Any ideas please? Thanks
did you format the drive you are installing windows on in exFAT?
@@MacSoundSolutions yeah! I have my opencore drive installed on a pcie nvme. And the windows drive is installed on sata formatted as exfat?
Id appreciate help as itll save me having to reinstall opencore from scratch etc
@@mikevarney405it may be because Opencore is installed on the NVMe and not a sata drive but not sure though. Where is your windows drive installed? I saw a guy who has Mac OS and windows on a NVMe, windows is a finicky bitch sometimes. I did this a year ago and off a pre existing windows 10 system, put 11 on a new ssd in sata bay and it just worked for me. I just installed Windows on my Mac Pro 6,1 but after all was good I could not get audio working and installed bootcamp drivers and that screwed up the whole install so have to try again.😢
@@MacSoundSolutions macos is installed on a sata and a pcie nvme. Its so frustrating, i reset the whole system and the UEFI NTFS installer just wont start :(
Im on martin los package (latest) and honestly have no clue what to try next.
I really want the dual system but I’m starting to give up.
@@mikevarney405maybe try pulling out the NVMe, is opencore installed on sata bay 1? Also check that the EFI on the target Windows’s system is empty. Sometimes older efi info left on the drive even if it was reformatted. Sorry can’t help further, but I would pull any drives that don’t need to be involved which I know is a pain in the ass. You do need to have opencore so if it’s on the NVMe you can move it to SAta bay 1 and rebless it then remove the NVMe and try again. And you used Rufus to create your windows thumb drive and it gets stuck during the install? Or is it stuck once you try booting off windows after it installed. If it won’t boot off the installer maybe something went wrong with the setup of them thumb drive. You’re not the only one to have issues with this. Maybe get on Mac Rumours search and or ask around, there seems to be several approaches to installing windows.
when I get to the windows setup language/time/keyboard selection my mouse freezes after a couple seconds and keyboard stops working, I made new usb with older Rufus same as you where using same result.. mouse freezes
are you using a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard? or wired
tried Jon5784 his version through sata drive same result mouse freeze
tried windows 10, same result mouse freezes first setup screen.. im lost at this point, I know these things are trial and error but common.. a bit of luck sometimes
wired, tried different mouse and keyboard already@@MacSoundSolutions
@@victorklaes5782 you didn't answer my question are you doing the install with a wired keyboard?
thank you, when i heard rufus i was happy 😁
then got to know the hurdle rufus saved you and i was like meh i know this bugs and how get around them
but since am new to mac world my experience was like this
after successfully installed win 11
i installed stable diffusion 3 and started poking to finally was able to generate a 512x512p pictur in 18 seconds using invidia quadro p4000
but i noticed a problem with windows anytime i restart i have to keep restarting and force shutdown couple times before i get back again to windows ....
anyone had same problem...
are you using opencore? Without it you can brick your mac by corrupting your boot rom with windows certificates.
This is didn't work, After the media creation with Rufus I stick the USB int Mac Pro 5,1 and hit the drive to install Windows, I get a black screen and I wait nothing happens I wait for a bit longer the Mac Restarts.
You have opencore installed? Did you see Rufus copy the iso to the thumb drive? Someone else on here said they had to do a pram reset, but I did not. Jimicob here in the comments just did it successfully today, read our comments it might help, but his issue was not the same as yours.
@@MacSoundSolutions it didn’t work, yes I checked Rufus, it did create the media based on what iso was downloaded in the downloads so then it selects it its a no brainer operation it just fails to actually boot into the drive with black screen. I’m on oc 0.8.3
@@peterdotb I’m on OC 0.8.6 , not sure what your issue is… a few folks have followed the video on it worked, maybe try installing 0.8.6
@@MacSoundSolutions I need update it seems like, Can you link me up to the oc zip file?
@@peterdotb are you using Martin Lo’s OC package? Just download it from here forums.macrumors.com/threads/activate-amd-hardware-acceleration.2180095/page-53?post=28255048&fbclid=IwAR19ccv8q-lFLjLAJX1wcrI6TaUJ8hBKYLuMWDjEvOfRKubKWMtmxkP4vLw#post-28255048 Scroll down past the video links he is now up to 0.8.7 but I have not tried it yet.
Other than nanonanoUK pointed about wich Martin Lo opencore use for the installation, I want to add another very important advice: USE ONLY USB 2 THUMBS!!! Otherwise you will end in frustrating installations procedure with a lot of absurd windows sh*t that will never complete the installation process..
Hmm interesting my thumb drive is USB3 but most likely used a usb 2 port to install but not sure.
@@MacSoundSolutions From yesterday Lance I have tried different Macs and various combination From OC, OCLP, Rufus 3, 4, and so on. On 2 Mac Pro 4,1 and a MacBook Pro 13 2012 was impossibile to start and later finish a single installation. On the MacBook too without OC. Then i reasearch and found that the main problem Is when the Windows Installer Is uncertain of the disk presente in the system and stuck itself from preventing damages. Using a simple USB 2 thumb gas worked in all the Mac i have tested using or not OC. Hope this could help relieving a lot of headache :)
FOR THOSE GETTING ERRORS DURING INSTALL READ Olav's post below
@OlavAaF’s findings:
"I found the solution here, aided by some googling too. Turns out both the Win 10 and Win 11 installers gets very confused when a system has several disks with EFI partitions, if these are marked with partition id System, which they often are by default. So, this is not Open Core related at all (OCLP or other packages..). The simple solution is to press Shift+F10 before selecting the drive to install to in the GUI. This brings opp the CLI. Here run diskpart. Go through all the drives in order, and select the EFI partition for each drive. If it has the partition type GUID named “System”, then change it to “Basic data partition” (Primary for short). This can be done with the command “SET ID=Value”, where you get Value by typing “help setid”. It’s a long alphanumeric string. After doing this the Win installer never gets confused! :) You can delete all partitions on the drive to install to before selecting it and pressing next (of course if you don’t keep anything on it), also the EFI partition if any. The installer will make necessary partitions on it, and Open Core can boot the vanilla boot partition set up by the installer as it can boot UEFI systems. After installation the GUIDs changed can be set back to “System” by the same tool. Enjoy!"
May it be edited to “@OlavAaF’s findings:” at the top there, and the rest “quoted”? 👍🏻
Thanks!
@@olavaaf2218 done
Day 3 no success. Following this but during the installing of Windows 10 (yes ten, OC 0.8.96) after it copies the files it says "Windows could not prepare..into the next phase...". Setting the ID like mentioned above sounds good but there is no mention of the open core drive with an EFI partition. It would seem to me that you can't pull the OC drive nor can you tamper with the ID of the partition.
@@sozonpv so you booted off your USB Rufus installer? Try removing all drives accept for opencore and the drive you are installing windows on. Also look at the efi of the drive you are installing on, there should be nothing there no efi folder, and the drive should be format in exFAT then Rufus should reformat in NTFS
@@MacSoundSolutions As I have watched this video for more than few times I believe you may have made typo in 1st line by typing "accept" instead of "except". (just saying this, that there might be many beginners who don't know much about this stuff)
Hi, can you help us with audio problems?😢😢😢😢
I use my mixer for audio via usb, had to install a driver, with Apple you can install the bootcamp package but don’t install the AMD GPU drivers, it also makes switching os easy. Not installing bootcamp just the drivers. I will see if I can get audio out of the Mac Pro mini port.
Also what is your audio problem?
I keep getting an error where windows could not prepare the computer to boot in to the next phase of installation, I have restarted the installation several times with several different, restarted the Mac, changed to windows 10 installer drive (official) same error, I am going to see if open core recognizes my windows 7 dvd and I will try no other windows 11 install usb. It’s a Mac Pro 5,1 with open core 6.1. I also can’t find any references to this issue doing a quick web search, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Are you using Martin Los opencore package, it is now up to 0.8.8 update opencore to the latest first. Are you using Rufus to do the install off a usb drive plugged into your Mac Pros built in usb port? sounds like you don’t already have an older version of windows installed? It must be a UEFI install for opencore to see the boot installer.
@@MacSoundSolutions I had the exact same issue. What he refers to is something that happens instantly after selecting the disk to install to. Progress screen starts, never gets past 0%, then error. OCLP has written about this on their Windows install pages, it is however possible to install manually by CLI.
It indeed seems to me there is a difference in Martin Lo’s package and OCLP.. it makes the automatic install work for the former.. not for the latter. Probably comes down to config.plist differences… both seem to use open core 0.8.8.
@@olavaaf2218 yes! Thanks for posting, I never mention OCLP in my video and people are trying to do this install with OCLP. They like to call opencore “opencore” Martin’s OC and OCLP are two completely different beasts. Mr Macintosh has a video on how to install windows when running OCLP. My video is strictly based on using Martin’s package which does have changes in the config.plist for windows to work.
@@olavaaf2218 I feel kinda dumb for not realizing that there is a difference between Martin lows open core and OCLP is it possible to just to install to just install Martins open core just like you would to update open core or would I need to reformat the main drive.
And I did use Rufus and yes it is UEFI with the tpm and secure boot check disabled via Rufus, this is much easier than going through the registry editor. I also made sure to use the internal ports of the Mac even though I can boot of the usb 3 card , I do have a Mac mini(2009) that I got Monterey installed successfully and I used it as a daily for a little over a year. I am well versed in windows and Mac OS so no worries on that front.
Not worked for me
Sorry to hear it, it can be a tricky install. What version of opencore are you using?
I ❤ Windows. Fight me.
Let the games begin!
Welcome to the viruses
windows 11 on the mac pro 5,1 is a killer combo and faster by a good margin than any of the mac operating systems...make sure you disable secure boot and tpm by using rufus...