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Aug 13, 2015  Boot Camp 6 will support Windows 10 on Mac hardware going back all the way to 2012, which is a lot. If you want to make doubly sure you can dual-boot, here's the complete list! Apple has released Boot Camp 6, an update to the company's dual-booting assistant that let's the Mac run the latest and greatest Microsoft has to offer: Windows 10. Boot Camp Assistant prepares your Mac by creating a new partition for Windows named BOOTCAMP and downloading the Boot Camp support software. Important: If you’re using a portable Mac, connect it to a power source before continuing.

UPDATE:See comment section below this post.

This guide is so complicated because the iMac's 27' Mid 2011 SuperDrive doesn't recognise the windows install disc. It's useless.

IMPORTANT: Unplug all external and physical hard drives (where possible) that you won't be installing to to avoid accidentally erasing them. Also make note of which drives and partitions remain (e.g. System and Storage hard drives), and be super careful to not erase the wrong one.

RECOVERY: If you nuke your machine, restore your time machine backup. Instructions here.

Windows 8.1

UPDATE: Because of the issues listed later on, I've decided that Windows 8 via Boot Camp is futile. Trying Windows 7 SP1 instead.

  1. Remove your firmware key by restarting, holding alt, choosing recovery, then in 'utilities' choose 'firmware assistant' or something
  2. Download the 'bootcamp drivers' from here, as of 15 September 2014, for the iMac Mid 2011, these are the latest
  3. Create a Time Machine Backup
  4. Create a mac bootable windows usb drive by either (windows install dvd will not boot on EFI systems):
  5. Using 'Bootcamp Assistant' on your Macbook Air
  6. Or by modifying your iMac's Bootcamp Assistant using sudo vi /Applications/Utilities/Bootcamp Assistant/Contents/Info.plist and adding it to the HAR listing, the USB listing and the EFI listing. Remove 'Pre' from the USB and EFI listings if it is there
  7. Create the partition by either:
  8. Using 'Bootcamp Assistant'. Then to avoid the error Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks. use gdisk to delete the 'Hybrid MBR' setup that 'Bootcamp Assistant' created, gdisk instructions here
  9. Using 'Disk Utility' to resize the OSX partition and leave the free space free
  10. Boot into the installation media by restarting, hold alt key, and selecting 'EFI'
  11. Install windows on the partition
  12. To avoid the error Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation. later when installing, delete the first partition called EFI on the partition screen1. UPDATE: This is likely the cause of Issue 1
  13. On the partition screen delete partitions 4 and above and use the unallocated space for the windows partition

Issues

  • Once all installed. Windows can boot to OSX, but OSX and Windows cannot boot to Windows (error No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key). Instead you must use the 'alt' on startup technique. Doing a Windows Repair & Diagnose Startup Problems does not fix the issue.
    • Other possible fix. this one works

  1. Audio doesn't work. Updating to latest Realtek drivers doesn't fix it. May be related to Hardware updates with Windows Update. Could be AMD drivers instead.

  2. Only 2.5GB of Memory is available out of my 16GB. I have four 4GB sticks inside the iMac and running Windows 8.1 x64. Can not figure out how to fix this.

Windows 7 SP1

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  • Doesn't work when using the Macbook Air's Bootcamp Assistant to create the USB Drive. Errors with: No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key error
  • Testing via unbootin now.

Ubuntu

  • Don't use the 14.04 AMD64 MAC image, it doesn't boot! Ironic and ANNOYING! Same annoying result for unetbootin on GUID, MBR, and via dd, and dcfldd methods.

  • Instead use the 14.04.1 AMD64 image, it does boot. Tested with unetbootin on GUID and MBR, both work.

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Troubleshooting

Mac Boot Camp Mid 2011 Mac Mini

  • Install rEFInd, it's the next version of rEFIt. It will show all the available boot devices, even ones that can't be booted (No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key error). Often the 'Fallback' boot device is the one you want. You always want the EFI boot device.

  • There is a 'EFI Boot' that is a Windows 8 Recovery still persistant, even though the entire HDD has been wiped and reinstalled via the OSX USB Install.

    • This guide which uses diskpart's clean all works for getting rid of that recovery sector.
      • If you then install windows 8.1 ontop of the new cleaned partition it still has the audio and memory issues as before. Seems like it could be an EFI thing.

  • This may be a better install guide than the usual ones.

  • This may work for booting from the external superdrive.

    • Without Bootcamp (just the alt on startup) just get a black screen with blinking cursor
    • Have not yet tried with bootcamp.

  • This tool or this tool may also work.

    • Rufus EFI only on ? only boots, but doesn't load. Just hangs on boot.
    • Refus EFI&BIOS on MBR doesn't boot, shows windows logo then does the No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key error
    • Microsoft's tool doesn't detect the USB drive (tried on VMWare Virtual Machine and on a Windows Physical Machine)

  • This guide could work for using VMWare to get the initial setup going.

  • This guide could work for getting Windows 7 to boot on EFI.

    • Didn't work. Had the same hard freeze issue as Rufus EFI only had.