Apple picker Today we will show how to install windows on macbook or any other device with OS X. An ardent Mekař may consider it sacrilege, but unfortunately even today not all types of printers, scanners, mortgage calculators and much more are compatible with OS X. Not to mention the fact that expensively purchased licenses for CAD, Adobe and others would not leave easily either.
The installation method that we will show uses a solution directly from Apple, which is very simple. It's called Boot Camp and thanks to it, unlike virtualization tools, it is possible to run only one system at a time, i.e. either OS X or Windows. However, installation is very easy and we will go through it step by step.
To install Windows, you need a USB flash drive of at least 8 GB and an installation CD or ISO image with Windows.
- Let's start by opening the Finder.
- Select "Applications" from the menu on the left.
- Open "Utilities" in the "Applications" folder.
- We find the "Boot Camp Wizard" application and launch it.
- After opening the program, click on the option at the bottom right Continue.
- Now insert a blank USB flash drive formatted with FAT file system into the USB port.
- If you are installing Windows from an ISO file, in the window that opens, mark all the options and then click the button Continue. If you are installing from a CD ROM, then click only the second and third options; click on Continue and skip to point 10 in the instructions.
- We click the button Choose…
- We select the ISO file with the Windows installation and click the button Open.
- We mark the USB flash drive that we connected earlier (if only one is connected, then it is already marked automatically) and click on the button Continue.
- Now the MacBook will download the support program and any drivers needed for Windows. This can take up to 2 to 3 hours depending on the load on Apple's servers.
- If you have a password protected MacBook, you need to enter it. Then confirm with the button Add utility.
- Now on the slider we set how much disk space is allocated for Windows and how much for OS X. This distribution can then no longer be changed. It is therefore necessary to think ahead. Then we click on Install.
- Once the installation is complete, the computer restarts and the classic Windows installation continues.
- During the installation of Windows, the Boot Camp application is launched, which installs all drivers. Click the button on the window that opens Další.
- The drivers will now take a few minutes to install.
- We click on Complete and we are done.
- From now on, when starting the MacBook, hold down the Alt key on the keyboard and a menu will appear with the name of the disks. Just select which of the required systems you want to activate.
The main advantage of Boot Camp compared to system virtualization (Parallels, Virtual Box) is that the second system "sleeps" and therefore does not burden the MacBook in terms of hardware (performance). The disadvantage is the need to restart the MacBook when changing the system.
What inconveniences can you encounter? There are three main ones:
- After installing Windows, they do not respond to USB connections.
- Windows won't find the bootable media when the installation starts.
- When starting the Windows installation, they crash with an error message that the installation media is damaged.
In the vast majority of cases, the wrong version of Boot Camp is responsible for all the above problems. So mainly that you are not installing the correct version of Boot Camp for the given type of MacBook. All versions of Boot Camps for all kinds of MacBooks can be found for download on the Apple website.
This guide is intended mainly for complete beginners. If you still don't know how to do it, you can use the support of the MacBook shop via online chat on macbookarna.cz or by calling 603 189 556.
Hello, even if I restart the macbook, the installation won't start, but the x-axis normally... PS: in Bootcamp, I had to set it somehow via .plist so that the option to create a disk on a flash drive was shown to me there at all (macbook for 2011 late)
I believe this is an old procedure. Not to mention that the bootcamp version is handled by osX, so I don't know how anyone would use the wrong one. Another thing would be to download it manually and install it manually in Windows, but that is not done with this procedure. And I also get the fact that the setup warns about the wrong version.
I commend your intention, help and dedication of your time to create this guide. However, there are some inaccuracies.
1. The screens contain an outdated OS X operating system. If one has El Capitan installed, it is not possible to create an installation of a lower version than Windows 8.
2. There is no need to format a USB flash drive or other external storage to FAT, because the bootcamp wizard will take care of the format of this media itself when choosing to create a bootable media.
3. In the new version of bootcamp under El Capitan, it is sufficient if you purchase the Windows version (sold in a box with a Flash disk from Microsoft), which itself serves as a boot medium, then you only need to download the drivers for bootcamp in the image step 2 and 3 and perform the installation.
A very important step is after starting the windows installation, the Mac will restart itself, choose the partition (called bootcamp) and format it, otherwise no installation will take place.
I would expect sophistication and expertise in such a post, of such a fundamental nature, and not looting the internet and downloading (various screenshots) just to increase viewership and ultimately cause readers and users to suffer for hours as to why it doesn't work.
But otherwise the effort is appreciated.
Good evening
How simple and idyllic it all looks... Unless, of course, you are installing on an older MBP (early 2011 in my case), in which you replaced the DVD drive with a second disk. After about 20 man-hours of reading comments on the net in English, German and Russian, I finally compiled a procedure, after which I managed to install Win 10 (even though this Mac doesn't support tens!) - and it felt like climbing Everest :) ). Among other things, Info.plist must be rewritten (as Martin describes below) and the only booting that took place was via rEFIt. There are still a lot of things that have to be done, it's not for a short description ;). I just have to sarcastically note that 3 guys from my neighborhood broke their teeth on it (and they have many years of experience with both Mac and Win).
Did it work out for you in the end? I know I once tried installing on a similar Macbook and ended up swapping the drive back into the DVD drive, installing Windows, and then putting the other drive back in again. However, I don't know how I would proceed if I needed to get Windows onto the second disk :).
It's a long write-up, I'm at work now, I'll somehow pay it back together in the evening. And I must state that it is scratching with the left hand behind the right ear :))
Here is the tutorial, hopefully it will work on your MAC:
MBP early 2011, 2x disk: SSD for Mac and Win, second disk at least 3 partitions. 1. 10.11.4 (from which BootCamp will be created), 2. data (I made a DOS format so that all systems can use it) and 3. (about 20 GB) I format with Tuxera to NTFS. Tuxera is free for 14 days! I have Snow Leopard installed on my SSD (but it doesn't matter what OSX is there).
a) I boot into El Cpt and edit the Info.plist file in Boot Camp Assistant (BCA - I'll make a copy somewhere):
I will find
PreUSBBootSupportedModels
MacBook 7,1
MacBookAir 3,2
MacBookPro8,3
MacPro5,1
Macmini 4,1
iMac12,2
I will edit the first line - I will delete "Pre", i.e. USBBootSupportedModels, and if I have a different Mac model than is in the list, I will add it (I have 8.3, so I don't have to). I will save. Then I have to replace the original BCA in the Utility directory with the modified one (the sys app couldn't be replaced, so I rebooted into the other system and will replace it). Back to El Captain and now it breaks out
b) I start BCA (the modified one) and load the installer and drivers for Mac onto the prepared flash drive (DOS format) and divide the SSD into Mac and Win.
c) the computer restarts and:
I. either the installation starts and then I follow the instructions (format the disk to NTFS and the installation itself), or
II. won't start and now it's getting interesting ;)
d) reboot into ElCpt, download UNetbootin (https://unetbootin.github.io/) and rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) – both freeware and both run on all OSX.
e) using UNetbootin, I copy the installer iso to the 20 GB NTFS partition
f) install rEFIt, then reboot and the initial boot screen should change (otherwise try with ALT)
g) I select the disk image with win (there are a lot of them - trial/error method) and start the installation (the flash drive MUST still be connected) - now according to the instructions on the screen
h) it can happen that the installation freezes when installing the drivers (in my case the audio driver) - then restart, delete the file on the flash drive and install the bootcamp again.
And this is where all the fun (in my case) ends: I have an SSD with OSX and Win and a second drive with another OSX, Data and 20 GB with the installer. The installer has to stay there - if I delete it, win won't start. Maybe it can be removed in some sophisticated way, but I'm a Macař and I didn't feel like solving it any further - I don't miss 20 GB from the ter disk that much ;). Then I just delete rEFIt (instructions on the net) and when I start with ALT I see only the installed systems.
Quite a rodeo isn't it :)) – so fingers crossed!
ugh..that's pretty thick :) anyway thanks. now it has a fairly functional configuration, but I think the instructions will definitely come in handy at some point. I admit that I was looking for something about it, but I did not find such a complex procedure
You're welcome... I paid this off from about 5 instructions, I always moved a step forward, then got stuck, a few days of Googling - in total I spent about 3 Sundays with it. When I can't lose with a "stupid" machine :))