![]() As a result, Apple has an interesting way to manage it. Since late 2012, iMac have fusion drive, which means its hard-drive is combined with SSD and traditional hard-drive. On iMac, here is how you can get Windows 8.1 (Professional) to install. But again, I haven't tried for very long. So far I haven't gotten Mac Pro to work, because it has the most particular type of hard-drive, perhaps Windows simply does not support. IMac (2014) and Mac Pro (2014) have different types of hard-drive. ClaitonLovatoJr's solution works on Macbook Pro Retina but not iMac or Mac Pro. For example, I have Macbook Pro Retina, iMac, and Mac Pro. As it turns out, not all OSX are the same. After 10 hours, I finally have resolved this. I was stuck with this challenge last night as well. (Not EFI) This time when you see the partitions it will be select-able as the installation disk.ĭuring installation Windows rebooted 2 times and I use Alt-Option button just to be sure that proper disk was booted. At this point reboot with the Alt-Option button and select the Windows DVD. Then I go to Disk Utility and manually divide Mac OS partition in two parts to add space (not formatted) for windows installation.Īfter that, when I rebooted with Alt-Option button, I was able to choose EFI Boot option on inserted DVD disk and successfully install Windows by create appropriate partition on space that I prepare with Disk Utility. I removed Bootcamp partition with Bootcamp utility - this reverts partition table to GUID. Now when Win 8 installer have EFI boot mode, we actually don't need Bootcamp utility at all. Bootcamp utility creates hybrid-MBR table and this prevents Windows 8 to be installed. I also was looking for solution to this issue and find it by understand the roots of problem. Also quick format works too - will save you 2 hours on a 1TB disk. I managed to make it work by buying a USB SuperDrive and booting from the Windows disk (not EFI). This solution doesn't seem to work when booting from the bootcamp created USB.
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