I've got an Early 2015 MacBook Pro (128GB, MacbookPro12,1) and I'd like to run Windows 10 on it but as its own OS instead of via a virtualisation program. Due to the space constraints imposed by the 128GB flash drive, I've installed Windows 10 (using Rufus) as a Windows To Go installation on a 32GB Sandisk USB 3.0 stick I've got.
Windows 10 works perfectly normally from the stick (I boot into it via EFI) but I can't get the drivers for the hardware from Boot Camp. Whenever I run BootCamp on my Mac, it tells me I don't have the 50GB free on my boot disk that I need to be able to partition (I don't), but it won't go any further and give me the option to download only the drivers.
The only thing I want from Boot Camp Assistant are the drivers for Windows 10.
Is there a way to fix this? The Boot Camp 6 drivers (needed for Windows 10, apparently) don't appear to be anywhere online – I could only find version 5 on Apple's website, which I believe is only designed for Windows 8 (the setup program doesn't work on my MacBook when running Windows 10, anyway).
Any help is much appreciated, I'm rather noobish with all this stuff!
Cheers,
Dan
Best Answer
I'm on a Mid 2012 Macbook Pro w/ Retina and El Capitan 10.11.2.
I was able to do boot camp assistant > download drivers (no other options selected) Bootcamp would ask for a usb drive, ignore it and close the pop up. From here I took my mouse up to the menu bar, and did Action > Download Windows Support Software.
The first time I tried this I got the error "The Windows support software could not be saved to the selected drive. An error occured while saving the Windows support software".
The second time I tried it, a day later with a reboot, I tried it again and it worked. Not sure what made the difference. Finder might have not been running as I'm running a trial version of Path Finder.