#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB HOW TO#
#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB INSTALL#
#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB PC#
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#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB MAC#

This will install the necessary drivers and Boot Camp Control Panel for Windows. Once Windows 7 loads to your desktop, open the USB Drive and go into the Boot Camp folder and run the setup.exe Choose Windows to boot back into Windows 7.Ĥ. You will now have both a rEFIt item and a Windows item. Reboot and hold down the Option button to bring up our boot menu. Open it and copy all of its contents to our just formatted USB Drive.ģ. There will be a WindowsSupport.dmg file in here.

#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB MAC#

Your Mac > LIbrary > Application Support > BootCamp Next, go to this location in your Finder. We now need to get our Boot Camp Windows files.Įxtracting Windows Support Files / Installing in Windows 7ġ.Open Disk Utility and Erase the Windows 7 Installation USB Drive we used to install Windows with. Once you finish the Windows 7 installation, let it reboot and boot back into OS X Snow Leopard.

(if you don’t boot to rEFIt menu, just reboot from os x and hold Option right as it reboots and choose Windows.)Ħ. Click on our “Boot Windows from Partition 3” selection. When Windows 7 reboots, you will be brought to a rEFIt boot screen. Installation should take about 7-9 minutes. Click on Format (this will format our drive to NTFS) and then click Next.ĥ. On the next screen, be sure to choose the Partition called: Disk x Partition x: BOOTCAMP (mine was Disk 0, Partition 3) and then click on Drive options (advanced) link. Once the Windows 7 installation wizard starts, choose Custom Installation.Ĥ. This will take about 4-5 minutes to load (depending on usb drive speed)ģ. Choose our Windows USB drive and let your Macbook Air reboot into the installation CD/DVD (like you would normally see when installing Windows 7 from DVD). This will bring up our new rEFIt boot menu (see video below).Ģ. Reboot your Macbook Air and hold the Option button right as it powers on. Installing Windows 7 to our Boot Camp partitionġ. Once it completes, we will have our Bootable Windows 7 USB Drive installer. It will warn you that ALL contents will be erased, click on Erase USB Device and let it run.ĥ. Choose the proper drive and click on Begin Copying. Step 3 will have you select your USB drive from the available drives. Once you have the ISO, click on Browse and select it and click Next.Ĥ.

#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB ISO#

You can either make one from your physical disc or find a download of it online (I used MagicDisc to make an ISO of my Win7 Install DVD).

It will guide you through creating the Bootable Windows 7 USB Drive. Open the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool app. This will eliminate the need to do any command prompt work to make the USB Drive bootable.Ģ. Download and install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.

#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB PC#

On your Windows 7 PC or virtual machine of Windows 7. Making our USB Drive a bootable Windows 7 installation driveġ. We now have our Macbook Air and OS X Boot Camp prepped for our Windows 7 install. Once it finishes partitioning (probably will take about 5 minutes), it will ask you if you want to start Windows Installation or Quit and Install Later. Once your ready, click on the Partition button. Again, remember we limited and need about 10GB for Windows 7 itself. I personally only used 30GB for my Windows 7 installation since I will only be using it for VPN and some remote apps that have Windows only clients. Once the files are downloaded, we will be at the partitioning screen. Next, it will ask us if we want to download the Windows support software, be sure to check it since we will need these files later for getting our mac hardware working in Windows 7 and click Continue and it will download the files. Notice how Boot Camp warns that you need an external cd/dvd drive not us! We will be doing two things here, partitioning our harddrive and also downloading the dmg file of our Boot Camp Windows files. Next, we will boot back into OS X Snow Leopard and run the Boot Camp Assistant. Once installed, be sure to reboot your Macbook Air twice the menu will not show up until after the second reboot (trust me, i noticed this first hand and after one more reboot could boot to my usb drive).ġ. Download the DMG and open it and then run the rEFIt.mpkg to install it.Ģ. First thing you will want to do is to download and install the rEFIt utility on your Macbook Air in OS X Snow Leopard. – rEFIt 0.14 (free, DMG file, download here)ĪLWAYS DO A Time Machine BACKUP BEFORE TRYING ANYTHING WITH BOOT CAMP!ġ. Copy of Windows 7 Installation DVD in ISO format – Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (free, download here)

– Windows 7 PC (to make usb drive bootabl

#INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON IMAC 2010 WITH USB HOW TO#

Keep reading for the full guide on how to get Windows 7 installed and running on your Macbook Air. However, we show how to work around this issue. Boot camp typically requires the use of an external usb cd/dvd drive because the EFI does not allow booting to a USB drive. Using a windows 7 dvd, windows 7 pc and a usb drive, you can install Windows 7 on your Macbook Air.

Install windows 7 on imac 2010 with usb