Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to. What you first want to do is install Windows 7 on Boot Camp. I installed Windows 8 fresh on both a 27' late-2009 iMac and a 21.5' mid-2010. Mac Mini: Boot Camp 4.0 will only install correctly on Windows 7 or Windows 7.
Sooo I have been investigating this for a couple of weeks now, and here are the results and conclusions that I have come to: I wanted to install a bare metal version of Windows 10 on a late 2009 Mac Mini that a friend recently gave me. I did not want to run Bootcamp. Just good ole' Windows. When I did an initial install from a Windows 10 creation tool listed HERE: I was able to get 10 installed, but it kept trying to install a video driver update for the Nvidia Geforce 9400 automatically, and created a boot loop upon reboot. I was unable to recover at all through any methods. So I then reformatted and installed again, and turned off automatic updates, then ran a reboot.
Success in blocking the updated driver install, but generic Windows driver now. So I attempted using the GeForce site's recognition tool as well as downloading several drivers through their site, all with the same results as before.
I THEN attempted to use Nvidia drivers listed in Bootcamp to no avail as well. Further research brought me to this forum page, and upon learning that Apple indicated that this hardware is not supported for Windows 10, I decided to take it as a personal challenge. Keep in mind each of these attempts involved reformatting the drive through a separate drive reader, quite annoying. My next attempt was to install Windows 7.
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First through a bootable USB drive, no go. I was then able to get a Windows 7 Professional install on the drive from an install through external optical drive (the on board one was hosed hardware wise).
Unable to run Windows updates. I THEN got one of the earlier Bootcamp zip files to support Windows 7, unpacked it. I was able to update manually through device manager, both the video adapter and the weird co-processor error that you will see cleared out. Several other items updated through Device Manager, make sure to go through and test them all. Still no good on Windows Update.
Tried running Windows Update fix utility from online, found some problems, fixed them. Windows Update still won't run. Back to the Windows 10 installation tool from URL mentioned above. Tried running it and letting the tool run Windows updates during install, updated just times out like the one built into Windows 7. Re-start the installation process, do not select to run updates during installation.
WINDOWS 10 SUCCESS!!! Co-processor error still gone, video adapter still sees the Geforce adapter, but with an exclamation mark. Check the message, asking for a reboot.
Reboot the box, full resolution showing, ERROR GONE!!!! Currently installing updates, which are finally working, crossing fingers. My initial gut feeling that this hardware should be able to support Windows 10 bare metal was correct. Hoping this information helps some folks out there from jumping through all the hoops I did, good luck. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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