(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading...First make sure that you have the additional software you need, such as Windows drivers for your Mac hardware. Then, once you launch Boot Camp Assistant, you will get to the screen that asks you to partition your Mac hard disk to carve out a Windows partition, as shown in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: Carve a Windows partition with Boot Camp Assistant
By default, you may be asked to create a partition as small as 20 GB. That’s far too less for any practical use. Use as much space as you can spare, yet do not get tempted to use the Divide Equally option if you have a very large hard disk. As you can see in Figure 2 below, I decided to carve a 200GB Windows partition. Click the Partition button to proceed.
Figure 2: Choose how you want to divide with Boot Camp
Boot Camp Assistant will now partition your hard disk, as shown in Figure 3 below.
Figure 3: Partition being created
Once the partitioning is done, note that your Mac OS X desktop will show a new hard disk partition called BOOTCAMP, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: New partition displayed
Boot Camp Assistant will prompt you to insert your Windows installation disc, as shown in Figure 5, below.
Figure 5: Insert your Windows install disc
Insert your Windows install disc, and click the Start Installation button. In the next post in this series, you will learn what happens next.
Related Posts
If you want to install Microsoft Windows 7 on a Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, using Boot Camp, you will need to fulfill the following req...
Boot Camp is a technology built into Intel chip-based Macs that allows you to create a separate partition on your Mac OS hard disk that can run Micros...
Once you click the Start Installation button within Boot Camp Assistant, it is assumed that your Windows install disc is in your optical drive, either...
If you have fulfilled all requirements for installing Microsoft Windows 7 on your Mac using Boot Camp, then spare an hour or two and get started: (mor...