Initially when Windows 7 was first released Apple did not update Boot Camp to fully support the new Microsoft OS.
To get Windows 7 installed you will need Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and the Boot Camp 3.1 Update.
– Mac Pro (Mid 2006, Intel Xeon Dual-core 2.66GHz or 3GHz) According to the Apple website the following models are not supported: This is made possible by the fact that underneath all the Mac and Apple branding the components are basically a standard Intel PC.īoot Camp works by creating a partition that is recognized by the Windows installation media on certain Intel-based Mac. Naturally you don’t want to get rid of OS X when installing Windows, so thankfully Apple created Boot Camp which allows safe installation of a Microsoft Operating System ranging from Windows XP to the newest Windows 7. Well there are numerous valid reasons for having Windows 7 installed on one’s Mac and today we will guide you through the set up. Mac fans will view this as blasphemy and Windows lovers will probably ask “why didn’t you get a PC if you wanted to run Windows”. So you picked up your shiny new copy of Microsoft’s latest OS offering – Windows 7 and want to install it on your (cue dramatic music)……. This name will appear in your boot screen. Select Type in the dropdown to “Generic x86 Pc” and give some name in the text box below. Open it, click “Add/Remove entries” navigate to “Mac”. Windows should fix the boot automatically, then click Fix and reboot button.īoot into windows and download EasyBCD (google it). Now your vista /windows 7 should boot, If it doesn’t try this:īoot with installation disk into windows setup, choose recovery again, and select automated recovery of boot area. Then do go to CMD and typeĭISKPART> list disk // displays the available HDDĭISKPART> select disk n // select the disk which has windows installationĭISKPART> list partition // list partitions on the selected diskĭISKPART> select partition n // select the partition number where windows was previously installed. When installation starts, it will ask for “Start up Recovery”. To boot in to Windows 7 or Vista, put in your windows 7 or Vista disk, and boot from it. If you have problems boot in to windows, please try the following step. When you want to boot in to Windows, when the machine boot, press any key, you will see options for selecting the boot disk (if you have windows 7, there will have a partition called System Reseved) that is the partition you should select to boot in to windows. You should be able to automatically boot into OS X at this time. After the installation is over, machine will Reboot. It will take more than 20 minutes, according to your machine. Now your DVD will be checking for consistency (if you want, just skip it, its not be a problem) Checking the disk and Installation of System files (if you select all, it might give problems)Īfter you selected all the relevant patches press Ok.ħ. That means, if You have NVIDIA geforce VGA on your laptop, you should select exactly compatible Driver from the “Graphics” section, DO NOT select all. It’s better to select only the important thins such as sound drivers, Graphics drivers, USB patches.
Dont add extra Drivers (.KEXTS) which might cause conflicts. Tip: For most of the INTEL based systems Default selected Kernel works very smoothly(do not want to change the Kernel) & for AMD system try Voodoo kernel. If you want, you can use If you have doubts also.
Here you can find the sample hardware examples and compatibilities. Here you have to choose the components/patches which support your hardware. Then select the partition which you erased recently. Then, Close the disk utility and agree to the terms and conditions
Here you can see a Top Menu Bar, from the menu Click Utilities > Disk Utility.Then, select the destination drive where you want to install Mac OSX which is the partition we have created earlier in step 2.Then click on ERASEon right hand side menu paneThen, for the format option select “MAC OSX Journaled Extended” and click Erase. After boot, you will see a Graphical interface.