Crashes trying to install Win 10 LTSC 2021 – then resets macOS user account

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Crashes trying to install Win 10 LTSC 2021 – then resets macOS user account

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: pullman

Created: 4 days ago

Updated: 3 days ago

pullman - 4 days ago

Hello Serhii

I am trying to install Win 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 using "legacy boot" on a 2015 11-inch Macbook Air.

I was booted off a macOS Monterey clone running from an external SSD and had created a 50GB partition (not volume) on the internal SSD, formatted ExFAT. The app crashed when I pressed Install. Then everything disappeared from the Desktop. When I rebooted and logged in to my normal user account macOS had me go through the setup process for a new user account (choosing GUI options, data sharing, Siri on or off etc).

Perhaps the app does not work with LTSC or on older Macbook Air models?

Cheers and thank you for your work
philip

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pullman - 4 days ago

Just posting back the solution I found. I created a new user which had all its user folder contents on the external SSD. My normal account, which I above, has its user folder on a separate partition on the internal SSD, which I believe was the cause for crash. So putting the Windows Install app plus the Windows 10 LTSC iso in the new account's Desktop folder (located on the external SSD) made the installation complete in 4 minutes and 24 seconds.

cheers
philip

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Serhii - 4 days ago

Hi. Glad everything worked out for you. But I was sure the 2015 MacBook Air doesn't support Windows in Legacy BIOS mode (legacy boot mode), only UEFI boot mode. This is news to me.

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- pullman - 3 days ago
  
  This is interesting. I did have a look at the Wikipedia page about which processors have the various instructionz and Broadwell, which my MBA has, does have SSE 4.2 for instance. So I suppose it would have worked. What would be the difference/benefit of using UEFI? I only have the native Monterey on the computer, no open core.
  
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Serhii - 3 days ago

Easier installation. You wouldn't have to install Mac OS on an external drive and then install Windows from there.

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- pullman - 3 days ago
  
  Brilliant, so no difference in use of the system then. Thanks again for replying so quickly and for your excellent software.
  cheers
  philip
  
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