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Follow Apple’s instructions there to use Bootcamp. Using BootcampĪpple did a great job of documenting the procedure

So I had to format the drive as shown before so I could reinstall the Mac OS X.Īll this to show that installing Windows on a Mac without Bootcamp is an unnecessarily cumbersome activity that should be avoided. I had to reformat the hard drive because without the reformatting, it would not even show up as an option during Mac installation. Meanwhile, I messed up the original Mac OS X installation while trying to install Windows and had to reformat the entire drive and reinstall the Mac OS: I tried to fix this from command line but it was a lot of hassle and should be avoided: I could not even format the unallocated space into NTFS.

It did not install even when I deleted the partition so I had plenty of unallocated space. For example, when I tried to boot my Macbook Pro off of a USB drive containing Windows installation, it got to the installation screen but then would not let me install Windows on the disk as shown below. Unnecessarily long process and using Bootcamp is recommended. Installing Windows and the relevant boot configuring without Bootcamp can be a painful and Bootcamp is Apple’s native utility for installing Windows on a Mac. Bootcamp: To Use or Not to Use?ĭefinitely use Bootcamp. But the process itself can get convoluted and there are some pitfalls to be avoided so I decided to document it here. I’ve installed Windows 7 on a 2011 iMac without a problem so this procedure should work at least as far back as 2011 Macs in my personal experience. Installing Windows on a Mac may or may or may not go smooth depending on how old the Mac is. On a PC, I would usually dual boot Windows and Linux, and on a Mac, I usually dual boot Mac OS X and Windows.

Create a new partition, and install Windows from your installation media by following the instructions in the assistant.I like dual booting my systems since I switch between Windows, Mac OS X and Linux fairly regularly.

Under Applications, and then Utilities, open the Boot Camp Assistant.

How to create a Windows 10 installation disk.

MacBook Air laptops from 2012 or later.

MacBook Pro laptops from 2012 or later.

The one after it contains the steps for installing the latest version of Windows on your Mac computer. The first section lets you know if your computer has Boot Camp. When another operating system is installed, your computer can boot into macOS or the new operating system (in this case Windows) from the Startup Manager. Since 2006, Apple has included the Boot Camp software with every Mac, thus officially supporting the use of other operating systems on computers that run macOS by default.