The problem is definitely isolated to Mac models with an optical drive – as I did not have this issue on my Retina MacBook Pro or MacBook Air without optical drives. To fix, I ended up installing from the recently burned DVD. The error was totally non-obvious – it said that the hard disk was partitioned as MBR but it needed GPT.
#Windows 8 mac mini 2011 install#
I think I can install Windows10 with out a problem via Bootcamp since Catalina will permit the compatibility. Third, it turns out there is a bug (either in Apple’s firmware or Windows 8/8.1 setup – my suspicion is its an Apple problem) that will not let you install from a USB stick. Hello, I just installed Catalina on my mac mini 2011 model.To fix, I had to actually burn a copy of the installation media and put it in the optical drive. Second, it turns out the Boot Camp Assistant won’t actually partition the drive unless you have a Windows installer disc in the optical drive.To fix, I ended up using my 15″ Retina MacBook Pro to re-create the USB stick because you can’t create in MacOS a Windows installer stick unless you do so on a Mac without an optical drive. A Mac cannot be booted off of a USB stick unless it has a GPT partition table. It formats the USB stick using a MBR partition table. First, I used the Microsoft Store utility to burn the Windows 8.1 Enterprise 圆4 ISO to the USB stick – big mistake.
My goal was to simply burn a USB-stick installer, put Windows 8.1 on it, and then put the Bootcamp 5 software on it and install Windows. It turned out to be much more of a (mis)adventure than I anticipated. This weekend, I put Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition 64-bit on a 15″ mid-2011 MacBook Pro.
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