Finally managed to install Windows 8.1 Enterprise on MBP2010.

Hi.
After several hours of tweaking, I finally managed to install Windows 8.1 - or ANY Windows, for that matter - on my old MacBook.
Bootcamp has a few major flaws right now. I do no longer have an internal optical drive, so I had to use a usb flash drive or my usb optical drive. Both are unable to boot into the Setup for a MBR installation, only EFI works. That's looks like a bug in the firmware.
This in turn creates a major problem: the Boot Camp-Assistant creates a hybrid MBR, and Windows Setup can ONLY start in EFI mode - which does not allow installation on a hybrid MBR, only protected MBR.
You can try and use gpart

Seriously? Accidently hit submit, edited my post to complete it and now everythings gone? Great!
So, for the second time - you can try and use gDISK to reroll to the protected MBR, then reinstall, fail at the end of the installation, fix the EFI, fix the BCD, resume the installation and fail again because the "hardware is incompatible"; I guess the Bootcamp EFI is still incompatible to the one Windows expects.
Means: no native EFI installation. At least for my hardware. I needed to install Windows on MBR, while booting into the EFI installer, because no other Setup would start. This meant installing Windows manually.
I needed to recreate the Bootcamp partition with the Assistant, then reboot into the Windows setup (DVD or flash shouldn't matter)
Hit Shift+F10 for the console.
Manually create the partition with diskpart:
     dism /apply-image /imagefile:D:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:C:\
     Notice: C is the newly formatted NTFS drive, D is the DVD/whatever.
After that's finished, write a new MBR and new Bootloader:
     bootsect /nt60 C: /force /mbr
     bcdboot C:\Windows /s C:
     I guess you could also pick a language there, with /l de-DE or whatever.
Then reboot and hope for the best. Setup should continue from the hard drive and finish.
Since that's pretty much again (...) off the top of my head, I might've missed something.
I did install rEFIt before, but that should not be required for this to work.
Good luck!

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