If you have an external display connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the display will be blank black, gray, or blue for up to 2 minutes during installation. When you install Microsoft Windows on your Mac, Boot Camp Assistant automatically opens the Boot Camp installer, which installs the latest Windows support software drivers. If that doesn't happen, or you experience any of the following issues while using Windows on your Mac, follow the steps in this article.
After downloading the Windows support software to your flash drive, follow these steps to install the software. If you're attempting to resolve issues with a Bluetooth mouse or keyboard, it might be easier to use a USB mouse or keyboard until these steps are complete. If a Mac feature still doesn't work after updating the Windows support software, search for your symptom on the Apple support website or Microsoft support website. Some features of your Mac aren't designed to work in Windows.
Your Apple mouse, trackpad, or keyboard isn't working in Windows. Force Touch isn't designed to work in Windows. You don't hear audio from the built-in speakers of your Mac in Windows. The built-in microphone or camera of your Mac isn't recognized in Windows. One or more screen resolutions are unavailable for your display in Windows.
You can't adjust the brightness of your built-in display in Windows. You have issues with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in Windows. You get an alert that Apple Software Update has stopped working. You get a message that your PC has a driver or service that isn't ready for this version of Windows. Your Mac starts up to a black or blue screen after you install Windows. Start your Mac from macOS. Plug the USB flash drive into your Mac. Open Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
Select the drive name, not the volume name beneath it. Click the Erase button or tab. Maybe if a person has only ever used Macs then they would not notice how unusual and cumbersome the current system is. Aug 8, AM. I'm not worried in the least bit about downloading the right driver.
Meanwhile, bootcamp needs you to reformat a thumb drive. Reformatting is a big deal. If something goes wrong, the user can lose ALL of their data. The instructions even go into troubleshooting for reformatting a drive, which is really digging in to helping a user complete a dangerous operation. On the other hand, other companies have mastered the art of distributing installers that check your system for compatibility, or they work in a way that does not break your system if it is done improperly.
Aug 8, PM. The transition from BC5 to BC6 changed the software delivery model. Formatting a disk can be problematic. Apple recommends using a USB2 Flash drive. IN the past, with downloadable drivers, many attempts have been made to install incompatible drivers on the incorrect Windows versions.
For example, many MacPro users use BC5. The BC5. If apple is worried about users installing the wrong drivers, I'd respond from the world of Windows by saying "we call that Tuesday".
Well actually installers are pretty good at detecting devices and doing things right nowadays without the help of using a model identifier, but I get it.
Apple's going to limit the options for users to mess things up. I rebooted into windows, and when I run "Setup" I only get the option to "repair" my existing Boot Camp installation. Surely a typo. So I can't really find any documentation about what the latest version of the software is but I heard they've only incremented to 6. When I poke around on the BCA stick, the drivers are dated On the internet I've seen news about 6. I'd say it's probable that the files on my memory stick are from 6.
BTW I'm on a mid 13" macbook pro. At this point I'd like to blame the BCA procedure, but it looks like the Boot Camp Installer isn't programmed to check if the existing installation is old. Some version history note on Wikipedia says "only support new installation.
It looks like I'm going to have to find some hack to get the new drivers to install, or risk uninstalling everything I currently have for boot camp so I can get the installer to install, and cross my fingers that I can run my system in-between boot camp installations. Aug 19, AM.
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