![]() ![]() To fix, I had to actually burn a copy of the installation media and put it in the optical drive. Second, it turns out the Boot Camp Assistant won’t actually partition the drive unless you have a Windows installer disc in the optical drive.To fix, I ended up using my 15″ Retina MacBook Pro to re-create the USB stick because you can’t create in MacOS a Windows installer stick unless you do so on a Mac without an optical drive. A Mac cannot be booted off of a USB stick unless it has a GPT partition table. It formats the USB stick using a MBR partition table. First, I used the Microsoft Store utility to burn the Windows 8.1 Enterprise 圆4 ISO to the USB stick – big mistake.My goal was to simply burn a USB-stick installer, put Windows 8.1 on it, and then put the Bootcamp 5 software on it and install Windows. It turned out to be much more of a (mis)adventure than I anticipated. ![]() This weekend, I put Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition 64-bit on a 15″ mid-2011 MacBook Pro. ![]()
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