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Aug 13, 2019  Format a USB flash drive. Start your Mac from macOS. Plug the USB flash drive into your Mac. Open Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Choose View Show All Devices from the menu bar. From the sidebar in Disk Utility, select your USB flash drive. Sep 14, 2015  Hi Rahul, I'm trying to install windows 7 on a macbook 5,2 (mid 2009, white, non pro) and the superdrive on it has gone bad. I was able to make a bootable usb windows 7 by modifying the boot camp assistant plist file (DARequiredROMVersions, USBBootSupportedModels; I used Macbook5,2 in USBBootSupportedModels). Install Windows on your Mac. Boot Camp is a utility that comes with your Mac and lets you switch between macOS and Windows. Download your copy of Windows 10, then let Boot Camp Assistant walk you through the installation steps. Apr 15, 2020  Douglas, The OS itself appears to be ok - not lightening fast but no different from Windows 7. Where it is laggy is in playing video, what you can see is the video pause for a fraction of a second and then jump slightly to catch up. Same video, played by the same software on Windows 7 played. Boot Camp is a Mac OS X utility that lets you run Windows on your Mac without relying on virtual machines or crippled emulators. Boot Camp supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (with OS. Jul 09, 2016  Question: Q: Getting Bootcamp (Windows 7) on Mac Mini Late 2014 This is an account of what it took to install Windows 7 on a brand new Mac Mini (Late 2014 model) as of March of 2016. I started the process same day I purchased the basic $499 Mac Mini.

Boot Camp Assistant User Guide

You need an external USB drive to install Windows on older Mac computers. To find out whether you have a Mac that requires an external USB drive, see the “Learn more” section in the Apple Support article Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant. If your Mac is a newer model that doesn’t require a USB drive, follow the instructions in Install Windows on your newer Mac using Boot Camp instead.

What you need

  • The keyboard and mouse or trackpad that came with your Mac. (If they aren’t available, use a USB keyboard and mouse.)

  • A blank 16 GB or larger external USB 2 flash drive, formatted as MS-DOS (FAT).

    To format an external USB drive as MS-DOS (FAT), use Disk Utility, located in /Applications/Utilities. In Disk Utility, choose View > All Devices, select the USB drive in the sidebar, then click Erase in the toolbar. In the dialog, enter a name for the drive, choose MS-DOS (FAT) from the Format pop-up menu, choose Master Boot Record from the Scheme pop-up menu, then click Erase.

  • A full-installation, 64-bit version of Windows 10 on a disk image (ISO file) or other installation media.

    You can download a Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File) from Microsoft.

  • Sufficient free storage space on your startup drive. For information about the amount of free space needed, see the Apple Support Article Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant.

Before you begin

Before you install Windows, make sure you back up important files.

You can use Time Machine or any other method to back up your files. For information about backing up files, see Back up your files with Time Machine and Ways to back up or protect your files.

Perform the installation

Do the following steps in order.

Step 1: Check for software updates

Before you install Windows, install all macOS updates.

  1. On your Mac, log in as an administrator, quit all open apps, then log out any other users.

  2. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Software Update, then install all available updates.

    If your Mac restarts after installing an update, open Software Update again to install any additional updates.

Step 2: Prepare your Mac for Windows

Boot Camp Assistant prepares your Mac by creating a new partition for Windows named BOOTCAMP and downloading the Boot Camp support software.

Important: If you’re using a portable Mac, connect it to a power source before continuing.

  1. Connect an external USB drive or insert a flash drive into the USB port on your Mac; keep it connected or inserted while you install Windows and the Windows support software.

  2. On your Mac, open Boot Camp Assistant , located in /Applications/Utilities.

  3. At the introduction screen, click Continue.

    The system is checked for total available disk space. Older Time Machine snapshots and cached iCloud files are removed to make space for Boot Camp. This process may take a long time to complete (you can click the Stop button to skip this process).

  4. At the Select Tasks step, select all the tasks, then click Continue.

  5. At the Create Bootable USB Drive for Windows Installation step, choose the Windows ISO image and the USB drive, then click Continue.

    The Windows files are copied to the USB drive. This process may take a long time to complete (you can click the Stop button to interrupt this process).

  6. At the Create a Partition for Windows step, specify a partition size by dragging the divider between the macOS and Windows partitions. If you have multiple internal hard drives, you can select a different hard drive from the one running macOS and create a single partition on that drive to use solely for Windows.

  7. Click Install.

When this step is complete, the Windows installer starts.

Step 3: Install Windows

  1. In the Windows installer, follow the onscreen instructions.

  2. When you’re asked where to install Windows, select the BOOTCAMP partition (you may need to scroll through the list of partitions to see it), then click Next.

    WARNING: Do not create or delete a partition, or select any other partition. Doing so may delete the entire contents of your macOS partition.

  3. Continue following the onscreen instructions to finish installing Windows.

    After you install the Windows software, your Mac automatically restarts using Windows.

  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to set up Windows.

Step 4: Install Boot Camp on Windows

After installing Windows, Boot Camp drivers that support your Mac hardware start installing.

Note: If the support software doesn’t install automatically, you need to install it manually. For instructions, see the Apple Support article If the Boot Camp installer doesn't open after using Boot Camp Assistant.

  1. In the Boot Camp installer in Windows, follow the onscreen instructions.

    Important: Do not click the Cancel button in any of the installer dialogs.

    If a message appears that says the software you’re installing has not passed Windows Logo testing, click Continue Anyway.

    You don’t need to respond to installer dialogs that appear only briefly during installation, but if a dialog asks you to install device software, click Install.

    If nothing appears to be happening, there may be a hidden window that you must respond to. Look behind open windows.

  2. When the installation is complete, click Finish, then click Yes to restart your Mac.

  3. After your Mac restarts, follow the instructions for any other installers that appear.

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See alsoGet started with Boot Camp on MacTroubleshoot Boot Camp Assistant problems on MacApple Support website: Boot Camp Support

This is an account of what it took to install Windows 7 on a brand new Mac Mini (Late 2014 model) as of March of 2016.

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I started the process same day I purchased the basic $499 Mac Mini. I set up the Mac side and started Bootcamp Utility. After downloading the support files, the drive partitioned and the Mini rebooted. To a blank screen. I had no idea what was (not) happening. The SuperDrive made noises and it sounded like something was being loaded, but no display. I tried another display. Same thing. Reboot, reboot, reboot. Same thing. Monitors worked fine with my MBAir. On a lark, I swapped the VGA adapter to a DVI cable and adapter and voila, I get a picture.


Windows 7 starts loading the installer. Reformatted the Bootcamp partition to be NTFS no problem. Coped/extracted/installed files. Restart to continue. Windows starts and the animated logo displays, and then an error screen displays, Windows Boot Manager. A file's digital signature can't be verified. AppleSSD.sys. After looking on the innerwebs, I see that you can DL/install Paragon NTFS on the Mac side to gain access to the NTFS partition. Then you find the file (windows/system32/drivers/applessd.sys) and delete it.


Reboot. Launch Windows normally. Perfect. Starts the configuration process. Screen comes up to enter an account name and I can't enter a thing. There's no mouse and no keyboard whatsoever. Check cables and USB antenna for the wireless mouse. Nothing. Swap to a wired USB mouse. Nothing. Wait for like 20 minutes to see if it just takes a while to load. Nothing. Try PC keyboard, Mac keyboard, reboot to use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Nothing.Contacted Apple support; they advised reinstalling the Windows OS by recreating the Bootcamp partition, etc. Nothing; same behavior. Several accounts of using the Bootcamp Assistant through several iterative processes to get results. I can't make head or tails of them. I get one glimmer of a nugget on a post about an iMac or MBPro regarding USB 3. Someone tried to find a compatible hub or something.


USB 3. Yes, this late 2014 Mac Mini uses USB 3 for all four ports. Hmm. Innerwebs search: Windows 7 install usb 3... aHA!


Turns out that Windows 7 was created before USB 3 existed. Therefore, the install disc or iso hasn't got any drivers for USB3. Turns out Intel has a solution for that. You can add USB 3 drivers to a Windows 7 iso. Check this out: USB 3.0 Creator Utility.


Follow the instructions on Intel's PDF for this tool. You will also need to use the Microsoft tool to create a USB flash drive installer. It's noted in the PDF.

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After updating the standard .iso with USB 3 drivers, I was able to complete my installation of Windows 7 on Bootcamp.

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