Hi. Kirk from Tech News Made Simple here. Today, I’m going to show you how to Bootcamp your Mac, your MacBook Pro, iMac, whatever it maybe—anything that is Apple.
Alright, a few thing you need to know before we get started—One, back up your important documents in a flash drive or a hard drive, whatever it may be. You always run the risk of losing information. Two, you need a Windows operating system. Luckily, Microsoft has released their Windows 7 candidate that you can download for free at Microsoft.com, I’ll link this up on the website. You can download the 32bit version if you have less than two gigs of RAM. Or you can download the 64bit version if you have more than three gigs of RAM on your computer. You also need your original Mac OSX install CD. So that’s all you need. You do need a blank DVD if you decide to download and burn the Windows. Other than that, we’re ready to go.
Alright, so here we have our Mac, my MacBook Pro. What will I do now is in order to start Boot Camp, what you want to do is you can go to your applications window and—let’s make this a little bit bigger. Scroll in to the utilities folder and the in the utilities folder, there should be a Boot Camp Assistant. I want to run that. Alternatively, you can go to the search menu and search for Boot Camp. There’s a little warnings—it says—you’re going to install a Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, here we’re going to be installing Windows 7, which is just as fine, so click continue.
This particular MacBook Pro came with a 320 gig hard drive, you have the option of setting how big Windows hard drive will be. I will make this Windows hard drive 65 gigabytes and we’re going to partition this, it will actually split your physical hard drive into two separate hard drives—one for your Mac OS and the other one for your windows operating system. And that’s partitioning, I'm going to get my Windows install CD ready.
Alright, once done partitioning, it allows you to start your Windows installation. It says, insert your Window’s installation disk and click start installation. So, because my MacBook has four gigs of RAM, I'm going to install the 64bit version. Copy in the install CD, but it sits for a couple of seconds while it loads and I'm going to click start installation.
So it goes through some thinking. It can’t find it, it’s still loading. I’m just going to start installation again and I’m going to start recoding here on our MacBook. I use the camera here—restart with the new hard drive. It will going to start up, boot from the CD and then try and install Windows onto the new partition.
Alright, Windows 7 is loaded from the disk and where I chose English as the install language, time, currency, English, US keyboard, click next. It does take a little while to load, it is booted from the CD, it might take you at least half an hour to an hour. So, I'm going to click install now, and it will go through a round of setups and a round of restarts. You don’t necessarily have be here, you can actually leave for about—anywhere between five to ten minutes, come back, and check it once and a while. It’s something that you don’t need to sit around for.
So accept the license agreements. Next, and we’re going to install a new copy. And here what you see is where you want to install Windows. You have multiple partitions. Most of these are actually for the Mac operating system, here is the last one is the Disk 0 artition 3 Boot Camp. We want to install this and as you can see and maybe not so much well in the video camera, maybe we can zoom in a little bit here, a little backwards.
This is the Disk 0 Partition 3 Boot Camp. About 66 gigs and we want to install it here. And it says Windows cannot install the Disk 0 Partition 3 which is Boot Camp, I want to show you the details and it says, you need to format as an NTFS format. So what we’re going to do is click drive options, advance here and we’re going to format. Even though it’s already formatted, we need to format it to this particular Windows operating system. So, we’re going to click okay. It should be relatively quick, okay, and then, we’re going to click next once this is done.
And there we go, let it sit for a little bit, come back and see what happens.
Alright so we have our Windows screen, first thing we’re going to do—see if we can eject our install disk, it’s a little different set up here. I don’t know if you see it well, but we have one main task bar and a recycle bin up top. Let’s click in our Windows Explorer, Computer, and let’s see if we can eject this disk. Alright, ejected the Windows disk, What we’re going to need to do next is once you have the Windows install, you take your Mac OSX install CD, I'm going to pop it in. What this does is it installs all of the Mac hardware onto Windows so that everything is compatible.
So here in this case, for MacBook Pro, the multi touch pad will work as it should like it does in OSX versus in Windows. Okay, we’re going to run the set up and it says the program name is Boot Camp, and we’re going to let it take control and we’re going to run the program, it says check for solutions online—we’re going to skip that and run the program. Then we click next, accept, install. Here is the wonderful reflection that I'm talking about.
Here we go, it started up, we just type in our password here. Everything should be installed, your video card, sound drivers, wireless, Bluetooth, your eyesight camera, CD drive, any keyboard shortcuts that happened to be built into that, everything else should be up and running, and you’re all set. That’s the install of Boot Camp and Windows Operating System on your Mac. If you have any questions, just leave us a note or drop is an email kirk@technewsmadesimple.com Thanks.
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