I managed to bring up the boot menu and selected the USB Windows
drive. No joy, just a black display.
I may scrap this project. All I need Windows on the Mac for is
amateur radio software and Duxbury. I am waiting to hear from Apple so
its on hold for now.
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On 8/19/2015 1:42 PM, eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
You may need to do a force shutdown of the Mac or if it's off, press the power
button while holding down the option button at the same time. This will bring
up ' the startup dialog box. There should be some different disk drives listed,
but get ready for this one because voiceover doesn't speak on this screen.
Before attemting to jump over this hurdle, I made sure that the screen
brightness was cranked up 100%. This way I was pretty sure if I needed to use
Knfb Reader from the phone, I had enough light to capture the print. Somewhere
in that list should be your thumb drive, but I'm not sure how Apple will label
it. You should be able to start the Windows installation from there. I'll have
to dig out my notes later to see if I'm missing anything.
Best,
Eileen
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On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:06 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Eileen,
Thanks. The screen was definitely blank. After I rebooted this morning, I
made sure of what had been successfuly done. The Windows partition was the
right size but not formatted to NTFS. I never got to the point of telling the
Windows installer to format the partition. I verified that Bootcamp had copied
the Windows files from the ISO image to the thumb drive and those files appear
to be intact. I have the Bootcamp drivers ready on another thumb drive.
I do not see an option in Bootcamp to start the Windows installer on the
thumb drive. How am I to proceed from here? Thanks.
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On 8/19/2015 12:08 PM, Eileen Misrahi wrote:
Hello,
I’m not sure if this will help you, but I had all sorts of issues a few months
ago getting Win 8.1 installed. I have a CD media disk for Windows, but I also
download the ISO version as well. At least on the Win 8.0 side of the
installation, there’s no speech, as you well know. I also had handy the article
posted from Applevis on how to install Windows without sight. Even though the
order of the screens were not in the same order explained in that article, it
gave me the necessary keystrokes to assist in the installation process of
Windows. In this tedious task, I also used KNFB Reader from my phone to read
the screen, and the app BeMyEyes” to access sighted assistance. The last resort
I used was FaceTime with an sighted AT support friend. When you get to the
screen where you need to select the bootcamp drive (usually in the 4th position
or arrow down 3 times), you will need to reformat the disk. The “Next” button
is all the way in the bottom right hand corner (if memor
y
serves), which was not accessible with the command ALT-N. This is where I
needed the FaceTime sighted assistance in using the trackpad and detailed
directions on when the mouse cursor was exactly on the button to perform a left
click. I performed the left click from the trackpad. Once you get through this
tedious and frustrating task, you still need to install the bootcamp drivers
from your USB thumb drive. I hope this helps in getting your Windows 7 OS
installed into bootcamp.
Best,
Eileen
On Aug 19, 2015, at 8:56 AM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Update. Had to reset PRAM. The Mac side is fine. The Bootcamp partition is
there as well. Its not formatted with NTFS because the Windows install did not
get that far.
Not certain what went wrong but the Mac had apparently crashed which was
resolved by resetting the PRAM. How should I proceed from here? Thanks.
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On 8/18/2015 11:54 AM, E.T. wrote:
Hello,
I started this project this morning. I have gotten as far as
resizing the partition for Windows. At what point will speech not be
available? I am not sure the actual Windows install has started yet. If
the Mac restarted, its not apparent, the screen is blank. What next?
Thanks.
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