El Capitan Windows 10 Bootcamp

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Download Mac El Capitan; Boot Camp Mac Os El Capitan Download; What you need to install Windows 10 on Mac. MacBook introduced in 2015 or later; MacBook Air introduced in 2012 or later. Then, when Windows 10 was successfully installed, I ran the Windows Boot Camp support software – and was told that it wasn’t compatible. Having heard that before, I ignored it and instead of running the main setup executable, installed the drivers via the Windows driver package that was also available with the support software (BootCamp.msi). On supported Macs running OS X El Capitan, Boot Camp comes with a modified interface that places the ISO image selector and partitioning on a single screen, allowing a user to easily select an ISO.

This article explains how to install Windows 10 on an old MacBook running El Capitan. Apple made sure to make our lives difficult but installation is still doable.

Download the Windows 10 .iso file from your preferred location (MSDN, torrentz etc) and place the .iso file on the desktop.

Insert a USB drive in one of the Mac’s ports. This USB drive will be formatted so make sure that all its contents are backed up.

Launch the Disk Utility, select the USB drive from the list, then press Erase on the top of the window and make sure MS-DOS (FAT) format is selected. Then click Erase button to start the process.

Once formatting is complete, launch Boot Camp assistant and click Continue. Make sure all three options are selected as per below screenshot.

If the first option “Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk” is missing, please follow the article of the link to make it appears before continuing the process on this article.

Then click Continue again. If the .iso file is placed on the Desktop and the USB drive is FAT formatted, Boot Camp Assistant will automatically detect them as per screenshot below.

Click Continue again to manage the size of the Windows partition and then the installation process will initiate!

Once Windows 10 are installed, you will notice some key mac features like right click of the Track Pad are not working.

In order to install Boot Camp drivers, please follow the article “Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model“.

In the past, setting up both FileVault encrypted macOS/OS X and BitLocker encrypted Windows on a Mac with Boot Camp required manually configuring the disk partitions in a specific way to work around limitations in the MBR (Master Boot Record) partition scheme. This now works by default using Boot Camp Assistant provided you have the following:

  • a Mac that supports booting Windows in EFI mode (all Mac computers that support Windows 10)
  • Boot Camp Assistant 6 or later (included in OS X El Capitan or later, and OS X Yosemite via update)
  • Windows 8 or later

This is due to Boot Camp Assistant 6 using a different method to create the Boot Camp partition to support EFI booting for Windows 8 or later. The best explanation I have found is in the article How El Capitan Boot Camp is Affected by Apple’s New System Integrity Protection (SIP):

Modern Macs always boot via EFI, but Windows hardware has only recently started natively booting EFI. While there was some support for EFI booting Windows 7, Apple didn’t support EFI booting Windows until Windows 8. With the newest Apple hardware, Windows 8 or later is required, and EFI booting is the only way that Windows will boot on the Mac.

Mac Os El Capitan Bootcamp Windows 10

El Capitan Windows 10 Bootcamp

Usually you don’t have to worry about any of this, since Boot Camp Assistant and the Windows installer will set everything up correctly.

If you use Boot Camp Assistant to create the Boot Camp partition, you’ll get a standard EFI “guard” MBR

The hybrid MBR has an entry for each of the first 4 partitions. The guard MBR has only a single entry that covers the entire disk

The key that allows having both FileVault and BitLocker is Boot Camp Assistant creating a “guard” MBR with only a single entry.

Why this didn’t work previously

Older versions of Boot Camp Assistant create a hybrid MBR to support running Windows 7 and earlier in legacy BIOS mode. The MBR partition scheme, however, has a limit of four primary partitions, and the hybrid MBR set up by Boot Camp Assistant uses all four.

As BitLocker requires a second partition, a hybrid MBR set up by Boot Camp Assistant has no spare partitions available for BitLocker.

Two partitions are required to run BitLocker because pre-startup authentication and system integrity verification must occur on a separate partition from the encrypted operating system drive. This configuration helps protect the operating system and the information in the encrypted drive.

—BitLocker frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Previous solutions worked around this by setting up the MBR manually.

Macs that support booting Windows in EFI mode

The Boot Camp Assistant configuration file (/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/Info.plist) provides an indication as to which Mac models are supported:

According to this, Macs with a model identifier higher than those listed above will be set up to boot Windows in EFI mode.

Mac Os X El Capitan Bootcamp Windows 10

This matches Apple’s official list of Mac computers that support Windows 10.

Note: Apple’s list of Mac models you can use with Windows 8.1 includes older models. Presumably, these will be set up in legacy mode.

Configuring BitLocker on a Mac

BitLocker encryption normally requires a computer with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). As Macs don’t have a TPM, the other requirement is to configure Windows to allow BitLocker without one:

Conclusion

Os X El Capitan Windows 10 Boot Camp

On recent Macs, the combination of Boot Camp Assistant and allowing BitLocker without a TPM is all that is required to have both FileVault encrypted macOS/OS X and BitLocker encrypted Windows.