Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation.

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Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation.

I am having issues with installing windows on my imac. Everything installs until it finishes up and then it says it cannot go on to the the phase. I am showing the setup log of the failed installation below if anyone can help.whats also weird is when I restart and hold down the option button I see two windows disks when I should only see one as I deleted the previous windows installation that I had.I have had this problem for 2 days now if anyone can help it would be great.

Posted on Jan 3, 2025 12:35 PM

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HWTech

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Jan 3, 2025 2:16 PM in response to saikou19

Looks like the Windows installer was trying to install the Windows bootloader on the hidden EFI partition and could not create the necessary folders. It appears there was likely more error messages preceding that line which may hold more clues. You would need to keep scrolling backwards in the install log from this point to see where the errors began.

The line immediately before it is having trouble "removing the MultiEdition key from the blackboard". I have no idea what this may be referencing.

One possibility is a failing drive, but there is not enough information here to make any determination other than noting these two items.

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saikou19 Author

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Jan 4, 2025 6:26 PM in response to HWTech

Took me a while to get back but I fixed my issue, you were right about the hidden EFI Partition. I completely wiped my hard drive reinstalled Macos and then tried bootcamp again. The windows 10 installation went smoothly from there.

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HWTech

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Jan 4, 2025 6:48 PM in response to saikou19

Glad it worked out. Thanks for the update.

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