Install Mac With Bootcamp For Windows 8 Installation Guide

Hello all Here is how you install and set up Bootcamp on your mac. I will assume you have set up your Bootcamp partition with Bootcamp Assistant and nothing else. At this point your mac should have restarted with the Windows Installation Dvd booting or booted up. I will also assume you have downloaded and stored the latest Bootcamp Support software. I will assume you are using a retail Dvd of Windows.

Make two bootable usb one for windows8.1 [used bootcamp to make mine by modyfing it] and a mac recovery usb. Running 10.10.1 Yosemite and Windows 8.1 pro) I did a smc/pram reset and inserted a recovery yosemite usb. In diskUtility on the recovery yosemite usb i cleaned out both drives. Apr 6, 2013 - How To Install Windows 8 On Mac Using Boot Camp [Tutorial]. Your computer should reboot from the Windows installation DVD or USB stick.

I am unsure whether this guide will work with Oem versions. An Oem version of Windows is the same as the retail Dvd, except the product key will be tied to your machine and will not work beyond that. If you have met the above requirements, and Windows still does not install, one possibility is an incompatibility with the mac's keyboard, whether built in or connected somehow, such as via Usb. I should imagine bluetooth keyboards are out of the question. As a workaround, try connecting a standard pc keyboard. Now that is out of the way, please read the below guide carefully to install Windows. I shall assume you will be installing Windows 7 onto your Bootcamp partition, since the current version only supports Windows 7.

Update - as of Os X 10.8.3, Windows 8 is also supported, however no testing has been done as of the time of this writing. The first screen is the language, keyboard input and currency display. Press enter at this point to select English. You can change this later in Windows Control Panel, Region and Language. Press enter again to select the install button. The Dvd should spin up at this point. Wait until the Dvd spins right down, and accept the license terms by pressing the space bar.

Press enter to select the next button. Press c to select the custom (advanced) button.

Press down arrow four times. Where is mac address in stb emulator. This should select your Bootcamp partition.

Confirm where your Bootcamp partition is located in Disk Utility. The number besides the partition indicates how many presses of the down arrow key are required, which is usually 4. Press alt-a or option-a depending on your keyboard to select the drive options (advanced) button. Note the option key is equivalent to the alt key while the command key is equivalent to the Windows key. Press alt-f or option-f to select the format option. Press up arrow once, and press enter. You should hear a little disk activity from the hard drive.

This is setup doing a quick format of the Bootcamp Partition to the Ntfs file system. Press alt-b or option-b to select the back button. Press c to select the custom (advanced) button. This ensures that the newly formatted Bootcamp Partition, now labelled Untitled, is displayed in the drives list. Press down arrow as many times as required (usually four) to select the above partition, and press enter. At this point, the Dvd will spin up, slowly.

You will also hear disk activity coming from the hard drive. Windows is now installing. Note This may take up to 30 minutes initially while the files are extracted and copied from the Dvd. Allow the mac to reboot once so that setup can continue. When the mac reboots for a second time, press and hold the option key, and press right arrow once or twice to select the Mac partition. This may involve some trial and error.

Note The following steps only apply if you have Vmware Fusion installed. Open Vmware Fusion.

From the file menu in the menu bar, select Import. In the select a virtual machine window, press the escape key.

Press down arrow once to focus to an unlabelled button. If you Vo-right arrow, you will see that this will create a virtual machine using your Bootcamp partition. If so, go ahead and activate with Vo-space. Wait a while, and your Bootcamp Partition will start up.