Install Mac With Bootcamp For Windows 8 Installation Guide
This entry was posted in MAC, WINDOWS and tagged boot camp, bootcamp, how to install, mac, macbook pro, windows, windows 8 by admin. Bookmark the permalink. 5 thoughts on “ How to install Windows 8 on a Mac running bootcamp step by step guide. Dec 5, 2017 - Check out two main ways of installing Windows on Mac: Boot Camp and virtualization. To use — Boot Camp Assistant guides you through the installation process. You need at least 8 GB of RAM for Mac to run smoothly.
Couldn't install win8 in bootcamp on my 2008 mbp (4gb ram, 2.6ghz, no fucking problem running win8) So I followed this guide: You'll need a windows 7 disc. If that guide's down, here's a text mirror: ================ START MIRROR ================ • Gather your Windows 8 install disc AND a Windows 7 install disc (you can surely find one by searching the net, use your old one, or borrow a colleagues.
We are licensing Windows 8, NOT 7, this is just for my trick to fool bootcamp assistant and no i do not condone piracy) • Inside BootCamp Assistant, the driver download may hang,it did for me, twice.could be heavy usage due to the popular new update.so i recommend downloading it faster, and manually here and get 4.1.4586 yes this is for windows 7, ALSO while you are there, download the windows 8 support pack 5.0.5033, as we will need that later as well. As a matter of fact, DO IT THIS WAY and dont bother • That being said and done, in BootCamp Assistant (OSX), only check off Install Windows 7, leaving the download support software unchecked • Partition your hard drive as youd like, this splits up your storage space however you like, keep in mind which OS you plan to run the most, and obviously give that one more room, i.e you do all your Photoshop work, and app development in OSX, and only use Windows for office stuff, you'd want to give yourself more room on the OSX side. I however bought a huge new internal drive to split them basically in half, as i use them both frequently. • This step is where the trick comes. OSX 10.8.3 / BootCamp will advise you there is no support for Windows 8.only 7 with your Mid 09 Macbook Pro if you have put your Windows 8 disc in, upsetting you as it did me.possibly bringing you to this post, thats not FAIR is it?
Your 09 MacBook Pro is still JUST AS GOOD as a lot of PC's running Windows 8, why they excluded this model i have no idea.im sure they had reasons, but i dont care at the moment.lol • INSTEAD place a Windows 7 install disc in, and click next. BootCamp Assistant will now partition your drive, make the windows side bootable and restart your MBP. • Let it do its thing, and eventually you will land at the Windows 7 installation interface. We don't really want that, we want Windows 8 right? • Click the 'x' to close the installation for Windows 7, it threatens your MBP will restart, and allow it to do so.
• IMPORTANT Once you hear the beloved Mac chime, quickly press and hold the 'option' key. • This brings you to an area where you can select a startup disk. At this point, lets get rid of the trick.
Hit your eject button and get rid of the Windows 7 install disc, we are done with it now. • You now, well in my case anyway, should only see your Mac HD, and the Recovery Disk.
Horror games on steam. • Insert your Windows 8 install disc • Now WAIT. Eventually, you should see a new DVD looking icon that says Windows pop up next to the MacHD and Recovery Disk. (depending on what you called your iso, it may something else.not sure, but you cant miss the new entry) • This is where a wired mouse will be needed, or use tab/space/enter to navigate to the new Windows Disc icon and launch it. • You are now in Windows 8's installation interface, cool! • Follow the steps until it asks you where you want to install it.
You should see a partition about equal to what you set earlier in BootCamp Assistant, and it SHOULD say Bootcamp right on it. Select this partition. (mine was the last one, the fourth i believe) • OH NO, it says you cant install it to that partition, this is normal. You need to highlight/select this partition, and click format.