Installing Windows 7 on your Mac using Boot Camp Assistant
Hi guys,
Decided to share this information with all of you after having install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro Retina 15" and a friend installing Windows 7 on his iMac on Dual Boot.
Open Mac App Store on
your iMac/Macbook Pro/Air. Check for any updates on Mac OS X and Boot Camp
Assistant. Complete all updates on operating system and software.
Have a thumbdrive loaded with the latest Windows support software from Apple ready. (This is important to install all drivers for Mac hardware onto Windows 7 system)
Insert the Windows 7
DVD into your iMac.
On your Mac, Open
Boot Camp Assistant.
Uncheck “Create a
Windows 7 install disk” & “Download the latest Windows support software
from Apple”
Check only “Install
Windows 7” & click Continue.
This will bring you to
create a partition for your Windows 7. You may choose to divide equally or up
to your own preferences. However do remember that you will need at least 25GB
space on the new partition for Windows 7 to be installed.
Once you have
allocated the disk space for Windows partition, click “Install” / “Continue” /
“Partition”
Your iMac will start
partitioning and once completed, your iMac should restart and start loading
Windows files from the DVD.
Once loading has completed, it will prompt you to choose
your Language settings for Windows 7.
Set your preferred
language and click “Next”
Click “Install Now”
Setup will begin and
come to the following page.
Select Windows 7 Version in DVD and click
“Next”
Accept the license
terms and click “Next”
Select “Custom
(advanced)”
Click on the
partition that you have allocated for Windows 7.
Click “Drive Options
(advanced)”
You will have to
click “Format” and it will be formatted to NTFS format. Click “Next”
Once formatted, you
may click “Next” again.
Windows will continue
installation.
At the end of this,
the system will restart to continue installation.
Upon restarting, the
above screen will come on.
Enter the user name
you would like to use. Click “Next”
Enter the password
you would like to use for your account. Click “Next”
You will come to the
above window.
Check “Automatically activate Windows when I’m online”
Key in product
key. Click “Next”.
Choose recommended
settings.
Set the timezone and
time. Click “Next”
Windows 7 will
finalise your settings and prepare your desktop.
It will come enter to
the Windows 7 Desktop.
Insert your
thumbdrive and open Boot Camp Folder. Launch Setup.exe.
Follow through the
Boot Camp installer all the drivers required for windows 7 will install
accordingly.
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