It succeeded, was far easier than few years ago with Windows 7, but ended up without voice.
#2011 macbook pro bootcamp windows 10 install#
Since this was non-standard installation done long ago, I had another brilliant idea - let’s remove the SSD drive with Windows physically and let’s try to install it again on the second drive, next to macOS. This approach also failed, I had far too many versions of Visual Studio and some servers that were very deeply integrated into the OS, that didn’t want to be removed. I started removing software from it, having a hope I will eliminate the conflicts and it will bring back to normal. It was primarily designed for Windows 8, not Windows 10. I have noticed Bootcamp installation got broken. I don’t recommending watching it, below you will find everything streamlined and with my comments and failed attempts. My biggest inspiration was this video, even if it’s too long, too boring and voice is terrible. Here you can find a recipe, how I did restored this MacBook Pro 2011 and make it working fine once again. Long story short - both ended up on a shelf more than a year ago until now… Similar problems appeared on my Kruger&Matz Edge 1080 tablet, but that’s a different story. Those system updates also caused the whole device to hold, sometimes reboot or even BSOD, leaving it whole unstable.
#2011 macbook pro bootcamp windows 10 windows 10#
Some time between version 18 of Windows 10 upgrades the keyboard and trackpad started to work strangely (only left button worked, no scroll, no right button, no lights under, no Fn-key combinations). One thing was somehow faulty and broken meanwhile. I already put a lot of effort to make it a top quality stuff for developer (by installing Windows 10 in dual-boot on or upgrading its RAM to 16GB, not mentioning replacing HDD and internal DVD with Samsung 860 EVO disks, so even after almost 9 years, it’s still usable, hard to kill machine and powerful enough to handle their needs. Instead of going and buying some used or post-leasing equipment (as suggested here) I came out with an idea of letting my kids play and do their homeworks on an old MacBook Pro 13'' from 2011. Then they were playing with some on-line courses… I really found this video matching my situation. They started occupying my critical devices each morning just to check if something new to do was assigned to them by teachers. I was already practicing remote work from longer period and their appearance came as unfunny disturbance. Fix keyboard in Windows 10 on MacBook Pro (Early 2011)ĭue to corona-virus pandemic my kids stayed at home and started distance learning.