But you posted in the Bootcamp forum so we assumed you wanted to create and use a Bootcamp partition. If you had posted in a Virtual Machine forum, or asked if you could install Windows using other than Bootcamp Assistant then someone would have advised you to use a Virtual Machine like Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox. Luckily i didn't take apple's word as a written law and i use my own brain. I installed virtualbox, created a virtual machine with the full disk access, started installing windows, when the copy of the files ended and the vm was rebooting i simply closed it and rebooted my imac and finished the installation directly on the imac, everything went well. So it is possible, even if you and apple said it's not. There is your answer, now stop stressing and move on without it. You can't install Windows on your machine as it stands. I'm running out of ideas, someone can help me installing windows on my imac? thanks in advance So i thought that maybe if i can install windows on an external drive and boot it from there i will be able to launch the install directly from windows skipping the problem, but you can't install windows on an external drive. I tried with an external usb dvd drive and it didn't work (you can't install windows from a non apple dvd drive, it is a known problem) but it don't work, so i tried to create an usb installation key of windows with microsoft official tool and also with boot camp tool, both doesn't work (when i select them on the boot i get an apple alternated with a prohibition mark and a folder with a question mark, exactly as with the dvd drive). I'm trying to install windows but i don't know how without a superdrive.

I already did it 2 years ago without problems, but in the mean time i formatted the drive and my optical drive stopped working so i replaced it with an ssd. Hi, i have an iMac 27 i5 11.1 where i want to install windows 7 (or 8).

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