I recently got a new Mac and I'm trying to move my old Windows 10 Boot Camp partition from my old Mac (Mid-2011 MacBook Air, Model Identifier: MacBookAir4,2) to my new Mac (Early-2015, MacBook Pro 13', Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1). I purchased the newest version of Winclone (5.3) and backed up the image to my NAS drive on my local network. Windows 10 will now boot fully, and you'll be able to use Windows normally. How to install Boot Camp software on your Windows 10 partition. When Windows 10 loads for the first time on your Mac, a Boot Camp software installer will automatically pop up. Click Install. Click I accept the terms in the license agreement. Click Install.
So the Windows 10 technical preview is out and i was eager to test it out on my MacBook Pro. I am discussing only installation through bootcamp. While following the instructions that found on the web, i had to encounter many issues.
Hence i am trying to consolidate everything i know or did, in this post. Register for Windows 10 technical preview. 2. Download the Windows 10 technical preview ISO file from the windows website. 3. Lauch Bootcamp Assistant (Applications Utilities Bootcamp Assistant) and click continue.
Basically it should look like this: 4. “Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk” If this option is available, you can use the ISO file directly in the next step and continue with the installation.
If this option is not available you are left with two choices: a. Enable the option Close the application. In Finder, go to Applications Utilities. Right click on Boot Camp Assistant, select ‘Show Package Contents’ Right click the “Contents” folder, select ‘Get Info’.
In ‘Sharing & Permissions’ section, enable ‘read & write’ for all and add one more entry admin with ‘read & write’ privilege. For this you need to unlock the folder by clicking the lock symbol and prompt for the password will appear. You can use your admin password to unlock Once you have updated the permissions for “Contents” folder, open the folder and do the same ‘Sharing & Permissions’ changes for the “Info.plist” file. Now open the “Info.plist” file using TextEdit or Xcode application.
You need to make modifications in below sections: DARequiredROMVersions: Here you need to add you computer’s Boot ROM Version. You can find this by clicking the apple icon (top left corner) on the finder window, select ‘About this Mac’, then ‘System Report’, then ‘Hardware’ Note down the ‘Model Identifier’ and ‘Boot ROM Version’ In Info.plist file section add you computer’s Boot ROM Version like below: (Please ensure its in the logical order) DARequiredROMVersions IM41.0055.B08 IM42.0071.B03 MB11.0061.B03 MBP12.0061.B03 MBP71.0039.B0E MM11.0055.B08 PreESDRequiredModels: Here do the similar addition. Instead of Boot ROM Version you add the Model Identifier (MacBookPro7,1) /first section of your Boot ROM version (MBP71). PreESDRequiredModels MacBook7 MacBookAir5 MacBookPro7,1 MacBookPro10 MacPro5 Macmini6 iMac13 PreUEFIModels: Here also add Model Identifier or first section of Boot ROM Version as suited. PreUEFIModels MacBook7 MacBookAir5 MacBookPro7,1 MacBookPro10 MacPro5 Macmini6 iMac13 USBBootSupportedModels: Do similar addition in this section too. Note: If you file has PreUSBBootSupportedModels as the section, remove the ‘Pre’ USBBootSupportedModels MacBook7,1 MacBookAir3,2 MacBookPro7,1 MacPro5,1 Macmini4,1 iMac12,2 Win7OnlyModels: Remove this section Save the file. Now saving the file just won’t get the work done.
You need to sign the file. For that goto to Applications Utilities Terminal Run the command: sudo codesign -fs – /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app You will be prompted to enter the password. Do the same and click enter. Now your boot camp assistant is updated.
Reopen the application and try. Create a installation disk and use it. You can create an install disk for Windows 10 using the Disk Utility application in Mac. (Applications Utilities Disk Utility) Choose the burn option and select the ISO image and burn it to the dvd.
This will be your installation disk. Continue with the instructions on screen the Boot Camp Assistant, plugin the USB drive that you are going to use. (Remember this drive will be formatted during the installation) The USB drive can be of size 8GB or more.
Insert your flash drive and then select the ISO file’s location. Boot Camp will then download all the necessary drivers to run Windows and transform your USB drive into a boot disk. This step takes a while, so be patient. You’ll then be asked to partition your hard drive.
This is a critical step, as you can’t expand or shrink the storage later on. Instead, you’ll have to wipe that part of the drive and start from scratch. It is recommended you select at least 20GB, but 30GB or more is best, as Windows 10 itself will take up a sizable chunk. Partitioning will take time as well as installation. When you’re done, click Install to start installing Windows 10.Computer might restart several times during the installation and you don’t have to worry about it. If for some reason your computer boots back to OS X, reboot and hold the Option key. This brings up a menu where you can select which operating system to launch. Enjoy trying Windows 10.
I ran into some problems, but easily fixed them. This might help someone else: If you experience an error message stating your Mac only support 32-bit operating systems – even if you downloaded the 64-bit TP – do the following: 1. Open up the info.plist file again, and locate the 32BitSupportedModels entry.
Do as you did with the earlier edits, simply edit in your Mac’s model identifier. Save and sign the file. If the ISO’s filename contains “Windows10,” change it to “Windows7.” Apple has added an extra layer of security, that checks the filename – oddly enough. I changed the filename to “Windows7TechnicalPreviewx64EN-US9926”).
Installed windows 10 via bootcamp on my MBP running macOS Sierra, but I'd like to expand the Windows partition and shrink the macOS partition, avoiding a reinstall if possible. I did a search already, but the other questions I've found on this topic are 1) about windows 7 and 2) just suggest using WinClone or similar. How would this be done manually without the use of paid utilities?
Edit: I've used gParted from an ubuntu live USB to resize the windows partition. The only issue now is that windows throws an error on boot. Online sources suggest using gdisk to somehow sync the GPT and MBR tables?
(I have data backups and mac OS boots fine, so now it's just a matter of curiosity and avoiding a reinstall if possible). Don’t ever touch the partitioning from Windows! No Windows app can figure out how it is being ‘fooled’ into thinking it’s in charge. There are only 2 apps that won’t simply break Boot Camp completely, Paragon Hard Disk Manager & TwoCanoes WinClone. Afaik, neither can yet handle APFS. Carbon Copy Cloner can safely back up HFS & Boot Camp partitions, but cannot by itself recreate them, you must complete the underlying formatting first.
Apple’s own Disk Utility will not allow you to even attempt this. The Apple-recommend method is to completely remove Boot Camp & start over with a bigger partition size. Indeed, it is a valid point. I've been on the other side of the table, having to work with people who either dont want to spend much money or they did the previous mistake and it is me who has to repair it by hand, thats why I allways try to find the non-conventional way. I've screwed many disks, but I only lost information once because dd didn't copy the disk properly but didnt throw a warning. Since then I allways check manually if backups are done correctly and never made a client lose a single bit.
Btw: removed the downvote and gave you a +1, considering possible mistakes from future users – Nov 21 '17 at 19:57. You have to use a partition utility like GParted. If you are using APFS as filesystem GParted cannot modify it. You'll have to find a tool able to do so, and do the resize in parts, first the physycal APFS partition and then the Windows NTFS. If there's no software which automatically does it it involves a VERY HIGH RISK of data loss.
Keep this in mind and backup your data (or whole disk) before. If you want to try the 'easy way' first follow this guide about. It will only work properly if the NTFS partition of the Windows installation is a proper NTFS partition. Keep in mind that BEFORE doing this you'll have to shrink your mac partition using mac's Disk Utility. It will not allow you to make the bootcamp bigger, but it will make room for you to enlarge it with MiniTool (or any other tool capable of working NTFS under the partition layout your HDD has).
The full procedure is explained: Yesterday expanded my bootcamp partition from 50 up to 100 Gb using Mini Tool Partition Wizard Home Edition, a Freeware Windows Program after seeing this video: Note that I have OSX Mavericks, Steps are: 1) backup all your files (optional but strongly reccomended). 2) Using OSX Disk Utility resize MacintoshHD partition leaving unallocated space as much as you need to add to bootcamp partition. 3) Set Bootcamp as Boot Disk and restart the mac. 4) in Bootcamp with Windows running launch Mini Tool Partition and select the bootcamp partition. 5) Choose 'expand' option in order to expand the partition using all the unallocated space.
6) The program prompt to you to restart the mac for apply the task, cause is not possible while the partition is mounted and windows running. 7) Restart the mac and then automatically Mini Tool Partition will do the job in a 'graphic msdos like' form.
Now the long way around: First of all, before doing anything MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR HARD DISK. For zero risks use dd (diskdupe) to backup every single bit of the harddisk into a disk image. You can check how to do so. If you dont want to risk to reinstall everything from scratch make sure your backup contains the partition table and the partitions, or that you are totally able to restore that backup, even if you bought a new hard disk.
This is a critical step if you're not confortable with partition modification (its recomended even if you are). Whenever you touch a partition you are risking your data, and even though most times there will be a way to recover your info even if you screw it up without a backup, there are chances you'll overwrite important data and loose it forever. The risk depends on the operation performed and resizing is a particularly risky operation! If you are curious about what partitioning is about, you can check this to get some insights of what you are actually doing. Then you have three chances:. Install a partition edition software on your Mac.
I'm not a mac user, so I can only give you one example, which I believe it is included in mac distros. You can check to find more examples. All I could find on google was comercial software, but as I said, I'm not a mac expert, so there may be a GParted port around or something like that. Boot using a liveCD/USB like or and use GParted which is installed in the live distribution. There are many CDs to do this, like Partition Wizard, Partition Manager, Partition Magic, etc. In order to use thid method you will check, which is a different topic.
Do it from your Windows OS instead from MAC following a Windows tutorial. There are plenty around, like. Personally I allways use liveCDs to modify partitions, as they are much safer. Because if you resize a partition you are using (from whithin the native OS) your system has to reboot and enter in some short of 'special boot envinronment' (its not that, but just to simplify) and resize the disks from there. Those aditional steps add many failure points to an operation which is enough risky by itself. If you can, allways resize OS partitions from liveCDs.
And remember, make backups! This is a critical step, and deserves to be repeated over and over my post. MAKE BACKUPS! I'm sure you can shrink (or increase) the virtual windows partition first and then the actual partition. I don't know if the guy who said it is impossible took all his knoweldge from youtube tutorials or he's an actual computer engineer, but as a compute engineer i'm telling you there's no such thing as impossible, specially if apple provides a tool to resize.
However, take into consideration what he said and DO A BACKUP! More questions about APFS resizing. @tetsujin This is for older versions: This uses disk utility and then partition magic,but could be gparted from boot disk.This guy does it in the wrong way using partitiion manager from windows. They changed the filesystem, but there has to be some tool to handle it, for sure, and if not, he can allways drop the info to a new FS. If you are right (which i highly doubt) and there's no tool to do it in a single step with the new FS you could enlarge the APFS and THEN the virtual partition underlying. – Nov 21 '17 at 19:19.