” cd /efi/refitħ.)Restart your Mac and hold down the option key (Alt key). If you don’t see the Refit menu on boot, use this command on terminal to bless it. Copy the contents from that flash drive to the newly formatted NTFS partition that was created earlier.Ħ) Download and install Refit from here.Format the partition as NTFS (It’s important to use Tuxera for the NTFS format)ĥ) Once the partition is formatted, insert the flash drive that contains Windows 10 installation folders.Once Tuxera is opened, locate the partitioned drive that you created earlier with disk utility.(Tuxera might prompt you to restart after installation.) Click start and let Rufus create a bootable disk.Ĥ.)Open the Tuxera app that you downloaded earlier.Double-check that the flash drive is connected to Rufus.Make sure to change the partition scheme to MBR (This is very important).Rufus is crucial for this process because it allows you to create a Windows bootable flash drive in either MBR or UEFI.ģ.) Open the Rufus app and select the Windows 10 iso.(If you don’t have a windows computer, install parallels and run it in a virtual environment) In our case, MBR is our target.Ģ)Use any Windows computer and install Rufus. In simple terms the flash drive and the partition you made with disk utility have to both be in the same partition style. The selected disk is not of the GPT partition style”. However, if the setup installation is meant to target an MBR partition and the partition was formatted in GPT, Windows installation will say ” Windows cannot be installed to this disk. If the partition is formatted in GPT Windows will install, but you will face all those issues and BSOD errors.NOTE: Mac OS will create a hybrid GPT/MBR partition. It’s important to format it in MS-DOS as the system will create it in MBR (Master Boot Record), which is needed to successfully boot Windows.Once Disk Utility is opened, partition your hard drive and format it in MS-DOS.This process will not use Bootcamp assistance. 1.)The first step is to open the disk utility app and partition the hard drive.

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