How To Download Windows Support Software For Mac Without Bootcamp
I have windows installed without a mac partition now.
How to download windows support software for mac without bootcamp. It s specifically designed to extract the drivers we need without having to start the apple made installer from macos. The boot camp support software did not work for my installation of windows 10. I ended by going to the apple menu and shutting down my mac as usual. As usual launch boot camp assistant app on your mac and click action tab on menu bar where you can see an option named download windows support software. Installing windows on a mac should be a piece of cake with bootcamp but that rarely is the case.
When done i clicked the x to close the window. Next up i had to go back to my. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant. Download the bootcamp support drivers. It is the time to start the installation of windows 10 mac without boot camp.
To do this you should download and install windows support software with the help of boot camp assistant. When the download completes quit boot camp assistant. Now choose your windows installer usb as the target location to store the driver files. From the menu bar at the top of your screen choose action download windows support software then choose your usb flash drive as the save destination. Then hold the option key for some seconds till the usb drive should appear on the screen.
In order to download newer drivers for my mac i have to have boot camp installed on mac. In fact i would personally say that boot camp assistant is one of the worst apps that comes with os x and unlike the rest it doesn t work seamlessly. The apple support page says that it is for up to windows 8. From the menu bar at the top of your screen choose action download windows support software then choose your usb flash drive as the save destination. Insert the usb drive than from the keyboard press the option key.
Therefore you have the created usb bootable drive with yourselves. The wonderful tim sutton wrote a script that allows us to download the bootcamp drivers for a specific mac from the command line under windows.