Setting up bootcamp with Windows 8.1 Pro on MacMini Server (2012)
After getting a refurbished MacMini Server (2012 model quard core) from Apple Store, my first action was installing Yosemite on the second 1Tb hard disk so that I could switch between older Mavericks and newer Yosemite. The second thing to do was setting up BootCamp so that I can use the machine to do software development at work. After all, that was kind of my main incentive of getting the quad core MacMini in the first place. Here's my journey of getting that done.
After I got Yosemite set up completed, I launched boot camp assistant, which is right there in Yosemite (no need to do extra download). The first thing it asked for was a thumb drive. I had a 16Gb thumb drive ready, so that's no problem. Second thing it asked for was the Windows 8.1 ISO. That's also fine too since I had ISO downloaded from my company MSDN account. With that the application started doing it's work.
And darn that it took ALMOST 2 HOURS to complete that whole preparation process, but eventually the machine rebooted into Windows 8.1 installation process.
Everything seemed to go smoothly as expected UNTIL the Windows 8.1 installer prompted me for choosing a disk partition, as NONE of the partition in the list ready to install! I was puzzled for a short while, and then I saw the partition called Bootcamp, which is in the same 300Gb size that I assigned while running the Bootcamp Assistant application. I clicked the "detail" on the message and it says that it couldn't install in that partition because it's not in NTFS. So I clicked the "Format..." link and formatted that partition. With that the installation was continued.
Next was a long process of multiple reboots, and then Apple driver installation was prompted, and continue. During that process the USB keyboard and mouse use lost connection a few times. That problem was easily solved by unplugging and plugging the USB connector of the mouse and keyboard dongle. Hopefully this is just something happening during installation process.
With the Windows 8.1 Pro was installed. As usually, after that I needed to run Windows update, and that was a long long long process.
But with that, I have bootcamp set up properly.
After I got Yosemite set up completed, I launched boot camp assistant, which is right there in Yosemite (no need to do extra download). The first thing it asked for was a thumb drive. I had a 16Gb thumb drive ready, so that's no problem. Second thing it asked for was the Windows 8.1 ISO. That's also fine too since I had ISO downloaded from my company MSDN account. With that the application started doing it's work.
And darn that it took ALMOST 2 HOURS to complete that whole preparation process, but eventually the machine rebooted into Windows 8.1 installation process.
Everything seemed to go smoothly as expected UNTIL the Windows 8.1 installer prompted me for choosing a disk partition, as NONE of the partition in the list ready to install! I was puzzled for a short while, and then I saw the partition called Bootcamp, which is in the same 300Gb size that I assigned while running the Bootcamp Assistant application. I clicked the "detail" on the message and it says that it couldn't install in that partition because it's not in NTFS. So I clicked the "Format..." link and formatted that partition. With that the installation was continued.
Next was a long process of multiple reboots, and then Apple driver installation was prompted, and continue. During that process the USB keyboard and mouse use lost connection a few times. That problem was easily solved by unplugging and plugging the USB connector of the mouse and keyboard dongle. Hopefully this is just something happening during installation process.
With the Windows 8.1 Pro was installed. As usually, after that I needed to run Windows update, and that was a long long long process.
But with that, I have bootcamp set up properly.
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