Windows 8 was bad enough that it forced me — a lifelong Windows user up until that point — to switch my entire family over to Macs. But after seeing how (the Start menu is finally back and Internet Explorer is nearly gone), I’m now interested in giving it a try once again. Like most people using MacBooks, I have no interest in getting rid of my laptop, but thankfully I don’t have to buy any new hardware to use Windows 10.
For many Mac users, using Windows is a necessity, for running Windows apps and playing games that are unavailable for OS X. The recent Step 6: Once your Mac restarts for the second time, you are ready to begin installing the required Apple drivers. Insert the USB drive that you used earlier. Put the iso on a usb stick (drag it into your mac hard drive and mount it). Format your usb stick with the disk utility tool. I've tried many tutorials on how to create a mac bootable USB drive from Windows but none of them worked. So, I've come up with my own solution that worked fine with any DMG I've.
Thanks to Apple creating some helpful tools and some solid third-party options, it’s rather easy to get Windows 10 up and running right alongside OS X. Virtual Machine or Boot Camp?
There are two easy ways to install Windows on a Mac. You can use a virtualization program, which runs Windows 10 like an app right on top of OS X, or you can use Apple’s built-in Boot Camp program to partition your hard drive to dual-boot Windows 10 right next to OS X.
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Virtual machines like Parallels and VMware cost upwards of $70 on top of what you already have to pay for Windows 10, and while you can run OS X and Windows simultaneously, the drain on your processing power can force both operating systems to run less than optimally. Boot Camp is the easiest way to get Windows 10 on your Mac Boot Camp doesn’t allow you to easily transfer content between OS X and Windows partitions like virtual machines do, and you can’t run the two operating systems simultaneously. But it does give Windows full access to the processing power of your Mac. It’s also completely free (apart from the Windows 10 license), and a shared Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive folder can make data transfers a bit easier. Right now, the easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to get Windows 10 on your Mac is Boot Camp, and that’s what we’re using for this tutorial. The first thing you should do is to make sure your Mac can actually run Windows 10. Your Mac needs at least 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM would be better) and at least 30GB of free hard drive space to properly run Boot Camp.
You’ll also need at least a 16GB flash drive so Boot Camp can create a bootable drive to install Windows 10. Read Next: Our. Installing Windows 10 with Boot Camp Before we go any further, you should back up your Mac. While Boot Camp is very stable, anything can go wrong when you partition your hard drive, and you want to be protected.
Once you download your copy of Windows 10 — the full version, not the upgrade — we can begin the installation process. (You can also buy Windows 10 on a USB flash drive.) Open up Boot Camp Assistant, which can be found in the Utilities folder in your Applications list. Boot Camp will prompt you to back up your Mac, which you should have already done. The next page will ask you to select the tasks you want Boot Camp to complete. Check all the boxes, make sure your flash drive is plugged in, and click continue. Select the Windows 10 ISO location (Boot Camp automatically found it in my Downloads folder), and choose the USB drive as the destination, and click Continue. Boot Camp will create a boot drive with all of the necessary drivers.
Now is the time to go outside and clean out the garage, start building a new vision board, or get a head start on your taxes — this is going to take a while. It took a bit over an hour for Boot Camp to finish the boot drive in our test. (Since Windows 10 is fresh out the box, Boot Camp doesn’t officially support it yet, which could mean some drivers are missing. After a few initial issues including an unresponsive Start menu that was fixed by a restart, The Verge’s MacBook Air running Windows 10 ran flawlessly, with no noticeable driver errors. But still, install at your own risk until Apple issues an update for Boot Camp.) If you want to play games, make sure your partition is large enough After Boot Camp creates your USB boot drive, it will prompt you to choose how much of your hard drive you want to partition for Windows. This is a critical decision: after you choose, you cannot shrink or expand the partition without completely reinstalling Windows.
If you just want access to Windows 10 and only plan on using a couple apps, 30GB will suffice (a minimum of 20GB is necessary). But if you’re looking to play PC games or use Windows 10 as your main OS, you’re going to want to ramp up the available space in the partition. Once you make your decision, click Install. During this part of the installation, your Mac will restart a few times, ultimately landing you at a screen that will ask you which partition you want to install Windows 10 on. Select the partition labeled 'Boot Camp,' format it for NFTS, and continue with the installation. You’ll go through the setup wizard where Windows will ask you for the product key and you’ll be on your way. The Windows 10 experience on Mac To switch back and forth between OS X and Windows 10, you’ll need to restart your Mac.
Once it begins to reboot, hold down the Option key until you see the boot manager. Click on the partition with the corresponding operating system you want to use. Removing Windows 10 is as simple as installing it If Windows 10 is giving you issues or you just want to get rid of it, removing Windows from your Mac and restoring it to the original, single partition state is a simple process: open Boot Camp, and check the 'Remove Windows 7 or later' box, then click Continue. To remove the entire Windows partition, click Restore on the next screen. Boot Camp will ask for your password and then restore your Mac to its original state. Windows 10 runs well on the Mac — on our early-2014 MacBook Air, the OS hasn’t shown any noticeable sluggishness or major issues that you wouldn’t find on a PC. The biggest difference between using Windows 10 on a Mac and a PC is the keyboard.
You can’t remap keys easily, which means if you were used to using Cmd+c for copy on OS X, you’ll have to remember that it won’t work on Windows (it’s Cntrl+c). It’s definitely an inconvenience, but not one big enough to say you shouldn’t give Windows 10 on Mac a try. The main issue you’ll have is battery life, as we barely got 3 hours of usage on a full charge.
Will it change when Apple updates Boot Camp for Windows 10? Possibly, but if you’re looking for anything close to the 10 hours of battery life you normally get from a MacBook Air, you should probably just pick up.
RECOMMENDED: There are a couple of reasons why you would want to create Windows 8.1 bootable USB flash drive on your Mac. Maybe you’ve decided to install Windows 8.1 on Mac without Boot Camp; or maybe your PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on your external hard drive; or you want to easily without installing new tools. If you are using a recent version of Mac OS X, preparing Windows 8.1 USB is fairly simple and can be done without having to install additional software on your Mac. The only thing is that you need to have a Windows 8.1 ISO image file in order to prepare bootable Windows 8.1 USB on your Mac. Follow the given below instructions to create Windows 8.1 bootable USB on Mac. Step 1: Connect your USB flash drive to Mac and backup your files as all data will be formatted during the process. Step 2: Next, transfer Windows 8.1 ISO file to your Mac.
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If you already have a copy of the ISO file on your Mac, you can safely skip this step. If you don’t have the ISO on Mac, you can follow our guide to quickly transfer the ISO file. And if the PC unbootable, you can follow our guide to copy ISO file to the USB drive first and then copy the same to your Mac. Step 3: Launch Boot Camp Assistant software. To do that, click on Launchpad icon, click Other, and then click Boot Camp Assistant icon to open Boot Camp Assistant software.
Step 4: Once Boot Camp Assistant is launched, click on the Continue button. Step 5: Uncheck the option titled Install Windows 7 or later version (we use this option while installing Windows on Mac using Boot Camp), and also uncheck Download the latest Windows support software from Apple option if you’re preparing this bootable Windows 8.1 drive to install Windows 8.1 on a PC. Make sure that the option titled Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk option is checked before clicking on the Continue button. NOTE: As mentioned earlier, keep the option Download the latest Windows support software from Apple checked if you’re going to use this bootable USB on your Mac (this Mac) and not on a PC. As the support software is designed specifically for each Mac, it might not function properly if you try to run the downloaded support software on a Mac other than the model that you’re using to prepare the bootable USB. And if you plan to install Windows 8.1 on this Mac, keep that option checked to automatically download all support software on to the USB so that you can easily install all drivers after installing Windows 8.1 on your Mac. Step 6: In the following screen, click the Choose button to browse to the Windows 8.1 ISO image file.
Select the ISO image file and then click Continue button to proceed further. Click Continue button again when you see “The drive will be erased” warning to begin formatting the drive and then copying Windows files. If you have selected the option Download the latest Windows support software from Apple option, Boot Camp Assistant will also download required drivers from Apple servers. So if you have selected that option, make sure that your Mac is connected to the web.
Step 7: Once Boot Camp Assistant completes its business, you’ll see “The selected drive has been formatted and the Windows installation image has been copied” message. And if you have selected Download support software from Apple option in Step 5, you’ll see “Install this Windows support software after installing Windows” message. Click Quit button. You can now connect it to a PC or your Mac and begin installing Windows 8.1 operating system. The problem that most users have is that bootcamp formats automatically in FAT32. The problem is that it creates the Fat32 partition and immediatly restarts the computer. Now your guide is helpfull for creating an NFTS partition manually, but the problem is, once you create the bootable usb stick with windows, it does not initiate boot.
In other words, it simply doesn’t boot from the usb stick unless you create the partition automatically with bootcamp. In my case I am using a MacBook Pro Retina without optical drive. Lets assume I create a NTFS partition manually, and have the USB Stick prepared with bootcamp. How do I initiate a startup of the usb stick the next time I restart?
I have been reading many forums and this is a universal problem.