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I have got MacbookPro5,3 - Macbook Pro 15” Mid 2009 with GF9400M only without Legacy Bios Boot. There is no intel vga onboard and just one Geforce 9400 M old graphics.

I tried over 15 different iso and dvd but this Macbook boots only in newer EFI mode and while trying to boot legacy Bios version of WINDOWS installer it always goes straight to black screen and showing no screen forever (caps lock) working after few minutes.

something is blocking legacy boot of win 7,8,10,11 and any other bootable os from usb, dvd, etc.

I also tried using working legacy bios mode Windows installed on other Mac in bios mode or over usb into bios mode but legacy version Windows always goes straight into black screen and do not work on this Mac.

Efi boot Windows version always works but then it gives several problems with drivers vga, audio, no backlight after installing and that is why I would prefer to install legacy bios mode from dvd..

1. Any idea why legacy bios windows 10&11 installation mode always goes into black screen and maybe some way of fixing it and adding working gf9400m driver to windows installer?

2. Any idea how to fix Windows installed on some other Mac in BIOS mode to work and show screen output on this Macbook 15 Mid 2009 ??

Best and thank you for your help.

Michael

Today I tried to boot into my Windows 7 on my older iMac, but it couldn't find it at all. It appears in Disk Utility, but not when I hold down option or in the Startup Disk menu.

I recently installed windows on my iMac to play games on Steam, However, after launching the game I get an error reading:

"Your video card drivers seem not to support the required Vulkan version.

If possible, consider updating your video card driver or using OpenGL 3 driver

You can enable the OpenGL 3 deiver by starting the engine from the command line with the command:

"Buckshot Roulette.exe" --rendering-driver opengl3

"

I tried running the command in the command line, but I keep getting errors. I'm not familiar with windows command line though. Is there any way to get this to work? FYI, my iMac specs are:

iMac (21.5-inch, late 2015)

macOS Monterey 12.6.3

Sorry if it is breaking the rules but I'm seeking to see if it's possible to install Windows 11 on my iCloud MacBook Pro, I'm new to this. Thanks.

i have a 1 cord jack 3.5 headset so its not cause i didnt plug in the cords

ive had a problem with headset audio not working but it fixed and it would recognize it when i plugged it in but every time i unplug and plug back in the headset it doesnt do it for the input and it just uses the built in mic for the mac ive tried so many things to fix it ive tried all the privacy settings still doesnt work

if anyone knows how to fix please contact my discord because im not active here my username is sillyboymax

I have a late 2015 iMac , I want to play Jurassic world evolution 2

I’ve bought the game to realise I needed windows I’ve done YouTube videos and I’m so lost and confused now why the game won’t work due to my directx11 which it has but also it wouldn’t allow me to download the graphics card it needed

I’m sorry I’m just a girl that likes to play computer games I’m not really technical atall I’ve been at this for hours now please can someone help me

( and be kind and dumb it down for me 😅)

Hi, any fix for Windows 11 23H2 build 22631.3527 only mounting hardisks & not SSDs, including Flashdrives?

My SSDs are NTFS (GPT) and ExFAT (MBR).

It wasn't like this on Windows 10 and Windows 11 version 22H2.

Thank you. God bless Boot Camp users.

I used to play valorant perfectly fine up until to where my game keeps dropping from 300 fps to 50 when I move my mouse, it turns out is had to lower to the polling rate from 1000 to 500 but it feels weird so I was wondering if there was any solution to this problem

Hi, I am looking for a solution so i can boot windows with both GPU's enabled. because i plan on using a windows only MacBook because i happened to of bought a MacBook Pro 2019 (A2141 - Intel i9) and noticed when i dualboot Windows and MacOS. is there any way to Spoof a MacOS boot when its booting Windows so i can get both working? (it will be a Windows Only MacBook)

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Video tutorials preferred please (i dont understand what is meant in the guides)

This is the ONLY guide i could find when i do my researching, i am hoping for there to be a better solution. - https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/how-to-keep-mbps-irisiris-pro-activated-when-booting-into-windows-boot-camp/

Hello Apple and Boot Camp Windows friends.

The usual DISM /Online /Clean-Image /RestoreHealth doesn't work when for my drive C: when I'm on Windows PE (Boot Camp Windows 10/11). It always produces an Error 2 which is some kind of access denied error even though I'm Admin. What's the proper syntax to use DISM when you're on Windows PE?

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Thank you, God bless Boot Camp Windows users.

I honestly did not think the improvement would be so dramatic. The responsiveness and speed of the system is night and day. Would take 10-30 seconds some times for folders/apps/settings to open on MacOS. On Win11 Pro it's almost instantaneous. Main use is web browsing and light office work using web based programs on Chrome.

As well, the battery life was significantly longer. I got about 8-9 hours of heavy/constant office use on a single charge. It would only do about 4-6 hours tops before on MacOS. I haven't tested the parasitic loss while off yet, but so far seems to be about equal. While asleep for several hours lost only about 1% which was about tied with before.

I followed this guide that tells you how to bypass all the TPM/RAM/etc checks and even create a local offline account.

While I just wanted to share my positive experience, as this legitimately saved me buying another laptop and has made this one useful again, has anyone else noticed such a dramatic transformation on older hardware?

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So recently i decided to delete my old bootcamp partition and start clean. I deleted it no problem but when i wanted to reinstall it again it said i had to connect a usb drive so i connected my external hdd and let bootcamp do its thing. I then booted into windows (Note: On the boot picker screen the windows option was showing the hhd icon instead of the bootcamp logo) once i booted and came to the part where i had to choose my partition (Image above) it said i could not install windows on any partition. I then unplugged my hhd restarted and windows was gone. I have no idea on what to do next.

Partition 1: No idea

Partition 2: Main Mac OS Drive
Partition 3: The bootcamp partition

Partition 4: My Ext HDD.

Basically the title. I saw one of my disks had barely any space left, so I went through and deleted the games I no longer played (including Valorant), but this didn’t really seem to help. I check my setting and find that Valorant is tacking up 1.36TB of storage!!! Since I deleted the folder, I can’t uninstall it through my settings. Any idea on what I can do to fix this?

Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you ♥️

Whenever i downloaded bootcamp on my imac, everything went smoothly except for the wifi connection. I wasn't able to connect to the internet just simply because it didn't show when i tried. Are there any ways to fix this issue?

When I am using Windows through bootcamp I have the disk usage capped at 50% and uses 50% of my disk's speed. How can I get it to use the disk's full potential?

I can't boot into windows at all, when i select it it goes black or it sends me to the windows recovery screen, if i click something, it either just sends me back to the recovery screen or turns off my computer

My MacBook Pro 2012 default boots into Windows tiny10. I tried to "Restart into OS X" but it says "Could not locate the OS X boot volume". I'm not sure if Catalina or tiny10 is the issue, or if there's some other setting I need to turn on in one of the OS's. Any ideas?

Also I've noticed in Windows it will only get to about half the full brightness of the screen even when at 100%. Thank you!

Hi, everyone. I found this question already but no answer. After starting boot camp the windows logo would blink on the screen. And then the screen turns black and nothing. A narrator didn’t work or I just pressed the wrong buttons on Mac’s keyboard. Any solutions or answers.

Hello! I have an intel iMac (Retina 5k, 27-inch, 2017) and am looking to install windows via bootcamp. I was following this video, but it ended by noting he had wiped his computer and installed Sonoma via the OpenCore Legacy Patcher beforehand. Unfortunately I am still on Ventura 13.6.6. I was wondering if it was necessary to upgrade to Sonoma before downloading Windows 11, because i'd rather not. Thank you!!

TITLE PS: Also, can I preinstall the bootcamp drivers?

My motherboard on my Dell windows laptop died, but its SSD is working fine. My only spare laptop, until I buy a new one, is a 2015 macbook air. Can I use the MBA to boot my surviving Windows SSD from my crashed laptop?

My understanding is that I can, but I will need to have bootcamp installed to get the mac drivers. So, can I pre-install it/them before using the macbook to boot my Windows SSD?

Potential Problem

What I'm not sure about is if I need to do a fresh Windows Install just for use on the apple motherboard.

The Windows OS on the windows SSD was installed for my Dell motherboard. I did not use macOS to create a Windows ISO and fresh Windows OS install. All the guides and instructions online use macOS/bootcamp to install a fresh Windows OS install on a formatted SSD. I couldn't find any guides/help on using a pre-existing Windows SSD.

But I saw one person online where a previous Windows install couldn't work on different motherboards. Would this be a problem with the macbook?

Thank you.

Follow this steps; (not mine links real source below)

1. Boot into Recovery mode (by pressing CMD+R while boot macOS)

2. Unmount APFS volumes automaticaly mounted by Recovery (where /dev/disk2 is your APFS container)

   $ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful

3. Unlock APFS volumes (in case FileVault enabled for this volume)

   $ diskutil apfs unlockVolume /dev/disk2s1 -nomount Passphrase: <enter password here> Unlocking any cryptographic user on APFS Volume disk2s1 Unlocked but did not mount APFS Volume

3.1. To verify that volume unlocked (look for "Yes (Unlocked)"):

$ diskutil apfs list
...
|   +-> Volume disk2s1 73D0148D-36A2-429D-AE11-8FFB7E89EED7
|   ---------------------------------------------------
|   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s1 (Data)
|   Name:                      BigSur - Data (Case-insensitive)
|   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   Capacity Consumed:         349155135488 B (349.2 GB)
|   Sealed:                    No
|   FileVault:                 Yes (Unlocked)
...

4. Run APFS repair command

   $ fsck_apfs -oys /dev/disk2 ... warning: overallocation detected on Main device: (0x128e04+1) bitmap address (0x7c93d) Fix overallocation (0x128e04+1) bitmap address (0x7c93d)? YES ... ** The volume /dev/disk2 appears to be OK.

Original links from github; https://gist.github.com/varahash/9fc02e5b88c3259796e7b740b1963202

Hi,

I am stuck in a very unique condition where i cannot boot my mac ( Macbook air 2019 intel )

so what happened is in recovery mode, I tried to delete bootcamp, idk it got partially deleted, then I tired to delete but it didn’t happen, so then I thought I’d reinstall the whole macOS, then I deleted the whole MacOS Volume from reocery mode.

after this point nothing is working. If i enter recovery mode it apparently intenet recovery mode opens ( it return 1008F error at end ) tried all network options ( even with very fast network connection) if i just normal boot my mac, corrupted windows panel open showing 0xc000225 error & recovery mode cannot be opened at all.

also i tried bootable usb, even that is not working, even if i choose bootable mac from startup options it opens up internet recovery mode which fails at end.

can someone please help! 🙏

Looking for ways to delete bootcamp as no options are available and reallocate the disk to mac.

PS i also reset the NVRAM also

I installed bootcamp with 365gb and it successfully worked, once I tried to change back to macOS the partition didn’t pop up, I went to recovery mode and it showed how bootcamp took up all of my Mac storage even though it clearly didn’t use 1 Terrabyte

A bit ago I opened up windows and saw that it had a update if I restarted it so I did that and carried on, trying to open windows now it’s showing me a black screen and or my wallpaper frozen with nothing opening, was me updating and restarting it what caused this and what can I do to fix it? My iMac is from 2013 and I’ve used windows a handful of times on this computer ..

How do I take away storage from bootcamp and partition it back into the regular mac disk? I use mini partition wizard

Hi! I have this old MacBook, from 2008. It had OSX 10.7.5, but it got corrupt so I had to erase the disk. Now it's empty. I tried installing Windows 7, the maximum version that the bootcamp could support for that OSX, and the installation disk wouldn't boot from the MacBook, but it would boot fine from th HDD after installing it with a different PC. But it would only boot 32-bit Windows.

The MacBook has a 64-bit CPU, but a 32-bit EFI firmware. I tried once booting my daily PC's Windows 10 64-BIT drive from it, and it booted a LOT of tims, before I had to reformat the PC. I tried using rEFInd to boot a 64-bit OS, but it didn't work. I learnt that the ISO needed to have a "bootx32.efi" or "bootia32.efi" to boot from 32-bit EFI firmware. I tried using some "pre-made" Windows 10 64-bit WITH 32-bit EFI file (bootia32.efi or bootx32.efi), but it wouldn't boot.

Should I try using a GRUB2 bootloader USB? Is there any modded Windows 10 ISO file with 32-bit EFI file?

i saw online that i could use mini tool partition to delete the drive by wiping the disk however i’m not sure how i would go about doing this if i could perhaps keep a little bit of the mac os and have the rest as windows that would be okay however i would rather get rid of it completely

I really need help