How To Download Windows Support Software For Mac Without Bootcamp
It s specifically designed to extract the drivers we need without having to start the apple made installer from macos.
How to download windows support software for mac without bootcamp. In order to download newer drivers for my mac i have to have boot camp installed on mac. Insert the usb drive than from the keyboard press the option key. Installing windows on a mac should be a piece of cake with bootcamp but that rarely is the case. When done i clicked the x to close the window. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant.
Open boot camp assistant which is in the utilities folder of your applications folder. From the menu bar at the top of your screen choose action download windows support software then choose your usb flash drive as the save destination. In fact i would personally say that boot camp assistant is one of the worst apps that comes with os x and unlike the rest it doesn t work seamlessly. I ended by going to the apple menu and shutting down my mac as usual. Next up i had to go back to my.
Moreover the install disk and the recovery disk are showing that the mbp is still on lion the install disk is still showing the install snow leopard dialogue box while the recovery disk is showing the option set up and restore lion or something like that i can t remember while when choosing the startup disk it shows macintosh hd mac os x 10 6 7. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant. The apple support page says that it is for up to windows 8. Therefore you have the created usb bootable drive with yourselves. As usual launch boot camp assistant app on your mac and click action tab on menu bar where you can see an option named download windows support software.
Now choose your windows installer usb as the target location to store the driver files. Download the bootcamp support drivers. The wonderful tim sutton wrote a script that allows us to download the bootcamp drivers for a specific mac from the command line under windows. The boot camp support software did not work for my installation of windows 10. To do this you should download and install windows support software with the help of boot camp assistant.
Then hold the option key for some seconds till the usb drive should appear on the screen. I have windows installed without a mac partition now.