![]() ![]() I just want to find a way to boot the installer, get 7 installed, and get the wifi driver working so I can do the Windows 10 upgrade and install the supported Windows 10 Boot Camp drivers afterward. It's amazing how smooth this was on my 2012 MacBook Pro and how impossible it seems to be on the 2015 model. ![]() Since the Windows 10 installer boots and installs just fine (well, mostly), I did some googling as to why the Win7 installer won't boot while the Win10 one does and I think it may be because Windows 7 can't boot from a USB 3 port? Could that be what's going on? To try to boot the Win7 install disk, I used an older MacBook Pro (a 2012 model) that supports Windows 7 to create a bootable Windows 7 USB install stick using Boot Camp Assistant and I tried booting the CD from a USB CD drive, but neither boot. I need to be able to boot the Windows 7 install disk. But with no license, it's useless of course. If you own a Mac and you wanted to install Windows on it to run maybe some Windows software or games, Apple makes it possible by releasing Windows drivers. It took a bit of fuckery, but eventually Win10 got installed. The Windows 10 disk lets you complete the installation even without a license key, so I went all the way just to see if it would work. I was able to get the partition created by feeding Boot Camp Assistant a Windows 10 disk for which I don't have a license. In order to do that, I have to find a way to get 7 installed first. Unfortunately, I can't install a newer version of Windows because I have a retail copy of 7 that I want to upgrade to 10 using the free upgrade. Apparently Apple dropped support for Windows 7 in Boot Camp on newer Macs. ![]()
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