I am well aware it is old (and unsupported), but it is very upgradable and was affordable. I bought it at a great price, and it is immaculate as it just sat in a corner of a business unused. I have other Apple computers that are new enough to officially support installing W10 through Bootcamp Assistant (a late 2013 MacBook Pro and a late 2015 iMac), but I want to try making it work on my Mac Pro so that I can make use of its beefier hardware (more plentiful RAM and stronger processor and graphics card.)Īny guidance/success stories or reference to an existing and working tutorial would be appreciated.ĭoes Catalina No Longer Support Bootable MacOS X Partitions on Flash Drives when Formatting as Mac Journaled? I am having great difficulty trying to install a MacOS X that actually works on my mid 2011 27" iMac.
Apple keyboard (wired) and speakers, non-Apple mouse and monitor.AMD Radeon RX580 Sapphire graphics card (flashed with the Mac BIOS by MacVidCards, so I can access the startup options).I want to use a separate 500GB+ SSD dedicated just to W10.Unpartitioned HDD running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.I've also read that newer versions of W10 are problematic (like update 1903) when installed on an older Mac, so I'm not even sure if installing W10 is even possible nowadays. There's also the fact that some of these threads and videos are a few years old now, so for all I know, they may be outdated. not bothering, how to install the necessary Bootcamp drivers, etc.) or install W10 on a different machine than the one I'm using, so I'm now confused on the best way to go about trying to do this on my computer. a DVD to install W10, trying to use Bootcamp Assistant vs. I'm aware that running W10 on virtual machine (e.g., Parallels) is an option, but I may end up having to run 3D graphics software in Windows, and I don't think that would work well on VM.īetween the threads and how-to videos/articles I've seen on this topic, each one seems to use different approaches and steps (like using a bootable USB stick vs. I want to try installing Windows 10 on my Mac Pro 5,1, to use for an online college program that requires this OS (instead of dropping like $1000+ on a dedicated Windows machine that I may never touch again after I finish.) From what I've seen on Apple's documentation, installing W10 on any Mac Pro model before 2013 isn't officially supported, but I've read that it's still possible though not exactly easy.
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