BootCamp not working - not enough space left on disk

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

i'm trying to set up BootCamp, but i'm getting a weird error. 

it's saying there isn't enough space left on the disk, even though there is 61GB of 62GB left on my usb drive. i'm using an ISO that i just downloaded from the Microsoft website. 

 

my SSD has 982GB free so that's not the issue either. 

 

i'm using a mid-2012 13" macbook pro if it matters. 

 

@DrMacintosh can you help?

 

[KarathKasun]

Win 10 cant be installed on FAT disks.

The drive, AFAIK, needs to have no partitions on it.

Use the disk management tool to delete partitions from your target drive.

[DrMacintosh]

That USB if FAT32, you need the drive to be exFAT

[YaBoiWill]

Mine is formatted in NTFS

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

3 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

That USB if FAT32, you need the drive to be exFAT

ok I changed it. trying again now... 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

11 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

That USB if FAT32, you need the drive to be exFAT

same error. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

@DrMacintosh I also noticed that if I format it as ExFat and then go to bootcamp again it formats it again as FAT32... 

[DrMacintosh]

14 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

@DrMacintosh I also noticed that if I format it as ExFat and then go to bootcamp again it formats it again as FAT32... 

Now that I think about it, 2011 Macs don’t support Windows 10. Could be running into that. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Now that I think about it, 2011 Macs don’t support Windows 10. Could be running into that. 

it's a 2012. I just got it  

 

the BootCamp assistant says that I need a Windows 10 ISO... I suppose if it doesn't support it it would tell me. 

[DrMacintosh]

How much space does the internal boot drive have? This is apparently a common issue and Reddit doesn’t have any concrete solutions. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

How much space does the internal boot drive have? This is apparently a common issue and Reddit doesn’t have any concrete solutions. 

It has a 1tb ssd, which has 981gb free. 

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

It has a 1tb ssd, which has 981gb free. 

Yeah, maybe run some first aid on all the drives? Do all the reset key combos? 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

6 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Yeah, maybe run some first aid on all the drives? Do all the reset key combos? 

that ssd is a few weeks old... so.. I doubt it's the problem. 

 

I googled it and I found a page saying there are issues with 1809 iso's and older versions of macOS so... I'm downloading an 1803 iso now just in case it also applies to Mojave... 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

@DrMacintosh yeah that was it. using an 1803 ISO fixed it. 

[PineyCreek]

"...And this one time, at Boot Camp, I shoved an ISO in my PC..."

 

I think I can claim copyright on that parody if anyone wants to make a T-shirt >_>

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

3 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

how's installing w10 going so far? o_o I got a weird issue on mine (15" though) that needed a very specific install method

it installed correctly and worked, but I tried it as more of a just in case scenario. I took it off immediately. I'll put it back on if I need to for school but that's it.