How To Download Windows Support Software For Mac Without Bootcamp
I have windows installed without a mac partition now.
How to download windows support software for mac without bootcamp. It is the time to start the installation of windows 10 mac without boot camp. Open boot camp assistant which is in the utilities folder of your applications folder. Insert the usb drive than from the keyboard press the option key. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant. 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.
Therefore you have the created usb bootable drive with yourselves. Installing windows on a mac should be a piece of cake with bootcamp but that rarely is the case. 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. Download the bootcamp support drivers.
The boot camp support software did not work for my installation of windows 10. Open boot camp assistant which is in the utilities folder of your applications folder. In order to download newer drivers for my mac i have to have boot camp installed on mac. When done i clicked the x to close the window. To do this you should download and install windows support software with the help of boot camp assistant.
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. Now choose your windows installer usb as the target location to store the driver files. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant. It s specifically designed to extract the drivers we need without having to start the apple made installer from macos. 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.
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. The apple support page says that it is for up to windows 8.