How MAC OS x installs Win7

How MAC OS x installs Win7

To be prepared for:

1.Windows 7 installation disc, if it is a MacBook Air, you must prepare an external optical drive.

2. The notebook to be installed should be connected to the Internet (air only).

3. To prepare a U disk larger than 600MB (air users only, and must be FAT32 format)

Everything is ready to start the Boot camp install Windows 7 tour below.

Find the boot CMAP Assistant under the Use tool

Click the utility below "go" in the Finder, and then click the boot CMap Assistant in the tool folder.

Read the instructions click Continue

After the click is opened, the instructions for the boot Camp assistant are executed, and so on, click Continue.

For the Windows partition that you want to install

Then the program appears please partition the hard disk of the screen, you can stall the middle of the dots, moving around, to adjust how much you want to partition to Windows use, and then press the split on it. Because Windows 7 is installed, it is recommended that the space for this partition preferably be above 20GB.

Put into Windwos system disk to start installation

After the program partitions the hard drive, you will see a partition called Bootcamp on your desktop, and then just put the Windows CD-ROM you have prepared and press start to install. It is worth mentioning that if it is air, because it does not provide the original CD or restore U disk, so it will be the Windows 7 driver download to the MAC system desktop. You must keep your computer connected to the Internet during the download drive.

Format the partition as NTFS

The next Windows installation process is the same as the normal PC installation process, the only thing to note is that in the process of the diagram above, it is important to format the labeled Bootcamp partition as NTFS before it can be installed.

Install drive

Now that Windwos 7 is installed, the next step is to install the driver. The Macbook Pro offers a recovery CD with all the drives in the machine, just put the CD in the CD drive, press the "Run setup.exe" and "Yes", and you'll see the following figure, welcome to the Boot Camp installer, The driver is then automatically installed on your computer. The MacBook Air is then transferred to the USB drive by the boot Camp assistant download and then copied to the Windows system for installation.

Can read content from MAC partitions

After installing the driver reboot, you'll see a MAC partition on my Computer, "Macintosh HD" in the red box below, so you can share the Mac file on Windows, but unfortunately, it can only read, not write, Maybe it's for security reasons.

Press "option" key during reboot to select Enter system

After installing Windows on the Mac, you are free to switch between two operating systems, as long as you hold down the "option" button on the power-on, the icon above will appear, using the left and right keys or the mouse, and even Apple remote can choose to start the Mac OS x or Windows.