Original Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch installation Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 methods

Objective

This thought there is bootcamp artifact in hand, MacBook installed win system should be a cinch, did not think really toss a. During the period because of misoperation caused by OSX also hang fell not to go to the disk to erase all the network recovery installation. In order to make people less detours, to provide a successful personal installation experience, it may not be suitable for all equipment.

Windows 7

1. Download the 64 official image files of Win 7, not ghost or other modified version, I am under this (recommended): Cn_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_677408.iso

2. Prepare a USB flash drive with a capacity of 8GB or more (I have prepared two, a USB2.0 a USB3.0, if your USB stick installation process encountered the following issues, may need special treatment).

3. Plug in the USB, open the Boot Camp assistant on your Mac, select the first and second items, i.e. make a Windows installation disk and download the support software and copy it to the installation disk to start execution.

3.1 My USB2.0 u disk always stop in 40% of the place can not go on, but use USB3.0 USB stick to complete the 3rd step.

3.2 If you are confident enough, you can tick the third option and allocate disk space to start the installation automatically. But! If your machine is the same as my model, reboot and enter the Windows 7 installation interface you will find that the mouse and keyboard are all malfunctioning, because of the lack of USB3.0 drivers.

3.3 If you perform a 3.2 of the steps can not be installed, please restart the Mac, press and hold the Option/alt key, select OSX boot, go to boot Camp assistant, only select the third item, the window partition first killed.

4. Key steps, add USB 3.0 driver for your installation USB drive (need to be done under Window OS, take window 7 for example).

4.1 Set up the DRV directory under D, set up the USB3 folder, the Wim folder, and the Mount folder in the DRV directory.

4.2 Open the installation drive you just made in Windows.

4.3 Locate the following directory on the USB drive:/$WinPEDriver $/intelxhcisetup/drivers/

4.4 Copy the 12 files in the \hcswitch\win7\x64\ and \xhci\win7\x64\ to the D:\DRV\USB3 folder.

4.5 Copy the Boot.wim and install.wim two files from the Sources folder in the Windows7 installation disk to the D:\drv\wim subfolder below.

4.6 Open the cmd window and enter the following command line :　　　

d:\ CD \drv\wim DISM/mount-wim/wimfile:d:\drv\wim\boot.wim/index:2/mountdir:d:\drv\mountdism/image:d:\drv\mount/add-driver/driver:d:\drv\usb3\iusb3hub.infdism/image:d:\drv\mount/add-driver/driver:d:\drv\usb3\iusb3xhc.infdism/image:d:\drv\mount/add-driver/driver:d:\drv\usb3\iusb3hcs.infdism/unmount-wim/mountdir:d:\drv\mount/commitdism/mount-wim/wimfile:d:\drv\wim\install.wim/index:4/mountdir:d:\drv\mountdism/image:d:\drv\mount/add-driver/driver:d:\drv\usb3\iusb3hub.infdism/image:d:\drv\mount/add-driver/driver:d:\drv\usb3\iusb3xhc.infdism/image:d:\drv\mount/add-driver/driver:d:\drv\usb3\iusb3hcs.infdism/unmount-wim/mountdir:d:\drv\mount/commit

4.7 Boot.wim and Install.wim with integrated USB 3.0 drivers are covered back into the sources folder in the Windows7 installation disk.

5. Insert the integrated USB3.0 installation disk into your Mac, open Boot Camp assistant in OSX, tick the third entry to start execution, allocate disk space, start the installation automatically after reboot, and select the last disk named Bootcamp when installing Windows 7.

5.1 I came across a problem is that my USB 3.0 flash drive in the production of the installation disk has become very unstable on the Mac, often can not be mounted out of the unrecognized. But my USB2.0 USB flash drive is unable to use boot camp to make the installation disk. If you have a similar situation, you can make your own setup disk as I do. I use the USB2.0 that can't make the installation disk in the PC's Windows using UltraISO and other software to make a normal Windows 7 installation disk, and then the USB3.0 in the Bootcamp folder and $winpedriver$ folder copied over, Finally, starting with the 4th step, Windows 7 was successfully installed.

5.2 In the Windows installation select the disk interface, do not casually delete/format disk, my blood and tears experience to tell you, if the operation is wrong, it will cause the MAC partition table is destroyed, and so focus on the OS X system!

6. After installing Windows 7 into the system, remember to install the Boot Camp tool (driver) on the USB flash drive!

7. Window 7 is not good for retina support, a better solution is to use the N Card Setup tool to set the resolution to 1440x900, and to adjust the font dpi of Windows to 100%. It is recommended that you install Windows 8.1 without resolution issues.

Windows 8.1

1. Download the Windows 8.1 image file, and note download the official version! My next is (recommended): Cn_windows_8_1_x64_dvd_2707237.iso

2. Prepare a USB flash drive with a capacity of 8GB or more.

3. Open the Boot Camp Assistant in OSX, and all 3 are checked and started.

4. Key steps, 2nd to restart the time to press the Option/alt key, re-enter into OSX, open the Disk utility, select the disk into the Partition tab, will give Windows assigned to the bootcamp partition point minus sign Delete. Then click the plus sign to reassign a piece of bootcamp space, the format chosen as "Unassigned" and so on, I remember is 4 words (important!) Do not choose fat or exfat etc., it turns out that it is easy to fail in the installation and cannot be formatted. The reason is that Windows 8.1 needs to be installed in the NTFS disk format, and OSX does not format this format.

5. Restart, press and hold the Option/alt key, select EFI to start the installation of Windows 8.1, select the disk interface, select the newly divided partition, general in the last side, click the New button, and then use the new partition to install.

6. After installing Windows 8, remember to install the Boot Camp tool (driver) of the USB flash drive after entering the system. The resolution is also adjusted automatically.

Original Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch installation Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 methods