Apple Adds Windows 10 Support to Boot Camp. To install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp, you need to be running Mac OS X “Yosemite” or newer, and you need the latest Boot Camp version.
1) Which is exactly why the process appears to hang for hours because it can't write to the NTFS drive. I performed a dual boot install with a FAT USB drive and didn't even notice the windows support file download, it took less than a minute. Then a week later I decided to update to Win 8.1 to performed the process again, but forgot that in the interim period I had reformatted the same USB to transfer a large file, for which I needed to format to NTFS.
Oddly then the windows update seemed to be taking forever. I cancelled bootcamp, reformatted the drive to FAT, began the process again and hey presto, virtually no download time. 2) Apple's servers have nothing to do with it 3) Hard as it may be to comprehend, people still need help when attempting this procedure for the first time and this thread was top of the google search when I needed help performing this procedure myself for the first time. 1) Which is exactly why the process appears to hang for hours because it can't write to the NTFS drive. I performed a dual boot install with a FAT USB drive and didn't even notice the windows support file download, it took less than a minute. Then a week later I decided to update to Win 8.1 to performed the process again, but forgot that in the interim period I had reformatted the same USB to transfer a large file, for which I needed to format to NTFS. Oddly then the windows update seemed to be taking forever.
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I cancelled bootcamp, reformatted the drive to FAT, began the process again and hey presto, virtually no download time. 2) Apple's servers have nothing to do with it 3) Hard as it may be to comprehend, people still need help when attempting this procedure for the first time and this thread was top of the google search when I needed help performing this procedure myself for the first time. Click to expand.The format of the USB drive does not affect the download speeds, though it may cause other issues. Sometimes Bootcamp Assistant can take hours to download the files, sometimes the download is very quick. But downloading the files manually is always very fast.
I've checked the Bootcamp Assistant download rates many times, and on many occasions, using Activity Monitor, and they are consistently slow, even on stable high speed connections. And I've always used FAT formatted drives. Click to expand.There's nothing wrong in making sure the format is right. And if there's an issue writing to the drive, sure, Bootcamp Assistant could hang. But like I said, sometimes some people, me included, have had issues with download speeds with Bootcamp Assistant. The post I quoted was pretty much dismissing this, and stating no such issues exist. This is contrary to my own, and other forum members experience.
Edit: I've always used freshly FAT formatted USB sticks. The download speeds vary greatly between attempts even when the same stick is used. I've done this in a couple of different locations. I've checked the download speeds with Activity Monitor.
I've checked the connection speeds, and have had no issues downloading other files (or even directly downloading the Bootcamp driver package). I've tested the USB drives with Disk Utility and Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, I've formatted them in OS X and Windows, etc, etc. Nothing points to anything else being the issue, but Bootcamp Assistant.
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