How to install windows 8 on ssd

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I assume you are booting from a flash drive to install windows. Is your Mac a MacBookPro9,2 (13-inch), MacBook9,1 (15-inch) or MacBookPro10,1 (Retina)?ĭo know if your firmware is up to date? See EFI and SMC firmware updates for Intel-based Macs.

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Why do you feel you need to make the extra effort? What do you hope to gain?

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Most Windows users just rely on the MBR in the hybrid partition table. You seem to be trying very hard to use the GUID partition table to boot Windows. I also tried the procedure here: I get the error code above in step1 of the install.ģ Microsoft Basic Data Windows 249.1 GB disk0s3ģ Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB diskls3Ĥ DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC 314.6 MB diskls4Ħ DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC 314.6 MB diskls6ĭiskutil cs list: CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found) I have tried all the solutions on this thread: which is basically try formatting exfat, then installing the setup stops at 89% in step2 and gives the above error. Verify that the installation sources are accesible, and restart the installation everytime' I am getting the error code: 0xC0000005 'Windows installation encountered an unexpected error.

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I am trying to install Windows 8, efi, on my SSD.