Help with installing bootcamp without sighted assistance

By The Evil Chocolate Cookie, 17 September, 2021

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Good morning everyone. So yesterday my bootcamp partition effectively ate itself for dinner. I need to reinstall it right away, and I don't have sighted assistance available. I know there is a guide here, but I have a late 2016 MacBook Pro, so the steps are slightly different. Can someone help me fix this? Because of my creative work, I can't afford any down time.

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By White Stick Bloke on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 10:29

My question would just be what's happened to that partition and do you need to reformat that partition before you continue? You should be able to see it in Disk Utility. Because you have a 2016 Mac, you shouldn't need to create a support files USB drive so you should just be able to go into the Boot Camp assistant and start the process and it should be fine. You just need to make sure you have enough space on your drive (64gb recommended from memory) and that you have a Windows image ready to install, you can usually download that from Microsoft if you don't have it.

By The Evil Chocolate Cookie on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 10:29

I honestly don't know what happened. It won't boot into windows, which I know because the sound cord doesn't turn on. It was fine yesterday, but I restarted into the Mac to check on something. When I try to boot back into windows, it's a no. I've tried restarting it several more times, but nothing seems to fix it. My biggest concern is getting into the windows installer itself. As I said, I don't have cited assistance available and since this is going to take longer than five minutes, Aira is not an option.

By White Stick Bloke on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 10:29

So you did successfully install Windows and it has worked but its stopped working? I wonder if its a sound issue, ie, it is booting but you're not hearing anything? And what's the prices you're using to boot in to windows? Start the Mac, hold down OPTION, you'd probably need to arrow to the right and then press ENTER to boot in to windows? Maybe Aira would help just to confirm that you can get to the windows login screen then figure out what you might need to do. You can redownload sound drivers from the Boot Camp Assistant if you need to. If that's the issue.