Editor’s Note: Previously, we published a post by Daniel Pataki on. Alvaro is one of the many readers who left a comment on that thread. Below is his version on how to get Windows Boot Camp, and thus, Windows, on your Mac. I have a late 2009 27' iMac which has a built-in Optical Drive, one that is not operational anymore. I’m not sure why it refuses to work, but I tried cleaning it with canned air, which improved its condition a little because now at least it 'swallows' the dvd and spins it – it just never recognises it. I also have a MacBook Air which I successfully installed Boot Camp on with the use of an external drive.

Select the Windows 10 ISO file that you have previously downloaded and set the Destination disk to your USB drive. A prompt will appear to inform You can now use it to install Windows 10 on any PC. Note: if you have not upgraded to BootCamp 6, you might face the issue that “saving windows. Now, launch Boot Camp Assistant from Launchpad.Click on Continue and then check Create a Windows 8 or later install disk and Install Windows 8 and later version options and Continue. Select location of the Windows.iso file, you can see the attached USB Flash drive as Destination Disk.

Still, I wanted a way to install it without the drive. What Didn’t Work So I tried lots of things. The first one, was enabling the Boot Camp Assistant app to create bootable USB drives. It didn’t work, because after the application created the USB drive, it made a partition and rebooted. I was supposed to see the windows installer, but instead, all I saw was a blinking white line on a black screen. After several minutes of this, I gave up and force-booted my computer.

Camtasia powerpoint add in for mac windows 10. Next, I tried creating a partition on my own, using disk utility, formatting it as FAT32 and then attempted to boot from the USB. This did not work either.

When I booted my Mac in the boot option menu, it did not show the partition, nor the 'bootable' USB. And that’s when I found by Daniel Pataki, which I tried on my MacBook Air and it worked like a charm, despite the long and complex process.

When I tried it on my iMac, however, things didn’t go well. When I tried to boot the VM from the Boot Camp partition and install windows, the VM booted into a black screen saying 'Missing Operative System'. Finding Plan B I had given up on other methods, and I decided to sleep on the problem of installing Boot Camp on my Mac when I suddenly thought about the Apple Watch.

You see, what Apple has always wanted is for us users to buy a new model of Mac whenever the older one cannot do something. Nintendo switch emulator ios. It’s the answer to why certain Mac models can create bootable USB drives while others can’t. I then asked myself if USB drives have the same restrictions. One thing led to another and this is the way I install Windows on My Mac now.