However, with the release of Boot Camp 5.0 for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in version 10.8.3, only 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 are officially supported. Boot Camp 6.0 added support for Windows 10. Boot Camp 6.1, available on macOS 10.12 Sierra and later, will only accept new installations of Windows 7 and later; this requirement. (I use quotes since look on the right to several potential problems getting windows 10 running even with boot camp). – bmike ♦ Nov 22 '17 at 12:17 I am interested in this as well as I have a perfectly good, almost like new, MacBook Pro 17' late 2011.
- After Windows 10 is installed, you will be offered the Creators Update as a normal part of the Windows Update process, or you can trigger the update manually by booting into Windows 10, visiting the Windows 10 download siteand choosing “Update Now”.
- Cause: older versions of the MacHALDriver.sys driver supplied with the Boot Camp Utility are not compatible with Windows 10 1903. Solution: Basically you need to update to Boot Camp 6 or later. First you need to disable the old driver to allow Windows to boot normally.
Summary
For a new installation of Windows 10 Creators Update on an Apple Mac using Boot Camp, you must first install the Windows 10 Anniversary Update using the ISO file, and then update to Windows 10 Creators Update.
If you try to do a clean install of the Creators Update, you will get a Stop error with the code 0xc000000f in winload.efi.
Resolution
To clean install Windows 10 in Boot Camp, first download the Windows 10 Anniversary Update ISO:
Bootcamp Support Windows 10
From your Mac, go to https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
Note The download site detects what Operating System you are using, and will only give you the correct options to do this if you go to the site from a Mac.Review the information under Before you begin, and how to create installation media.
Under Select Edition, choose the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that matches your edition.
Press Confirm.
Install Windows 10 using the Windows 10 Anniversary Update ISO media. You can find more info here.
After Windows 10 is installed, you will be offered the Creators Update as a normal part of the Windows Update process, or you can trigger the update manually by booting into Windows 10, visiting the Windows 10 download siteand choosing “Update Now”.
If you already attempted to install the Creators Update and see the Stop error with the code 0xc000000f, you will need to use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the Windows partition using the steps found here.
Problem: the latest Windows 10 update 1903 runs into BSOD (Blue screen of death) with error message WDF_VIOLATION on some mac models (MacBook Pro 2010/2011, MacBook Air 2011, Mac Mini 2012, iMac 2010/2011 and some others). This fatal failure occurs when Windows is already loaded and system tries to start Apple Boot Camp Utility (BootCamp.exe). This tool is responsible for controlling screen brightness, volume, functional keys, backlit, etc with Apple keyboard. On some machines crash happens only if you try to start our Macs Fan Control app.
Cause: older versions of the MacHALDriver.sys driver supplied with the Boot Camp Utility are not compatible with Windows 10 1903.
Solution: Basically you need to update to Boot Camp 6 or later.
First you need to disable the old driver to allow Windows to boot normally. The driver file located at c:windowssystem32MacHALDriver.sys must be renamed, e.g. to “MacHALDriver.sys.old”. There’re 2 options here:
- (from Windows) Boot up in safe mode (holding the F8 key) and rename the file.
- (from macOS) Install Tuxera NTFS or Paragon NTFS for Mac to allow write access to Windows drive/partition and rename the driver file. Both apps are commercial but have a trial period.
After that you can boot Windows 10, but Apple Boot Camp Utility won’t work. Macs Fan Control is able to work without the Boot Camp driver but slowly.
Install 7Zip and Brigadier. Run the latter to download and install the latest official Boot Camp from Apple for your machine. Sometimes it may still download a faulty old version (e.g. for mid-2010 iMac), in this case we recommend downloading Boot Camp for another model using the –model parameter:
Boot Camp Update Windows 10
and run the Boot Camp installer manually (run your command prompt as administrator):
Bootcamp Updates Windows 10
Tip: to avoid this problem, we highly recommend updating your Boot Camp using the Brigadier app before updating Windows to 1903.