--> Pre-requirement
Licensed Window-OS 7 cd/dvd and a good internet connectivity
--> Steps
1. Boot Camp Assistant
- Open Boot Camp Assistant
- Let the first option be selected 'Download the windows support software for this Mac'
- Click on 'Continue' button. Remember this download is only of supporting drivers, it does not download the OS software.
- Let it download all the supporting drivers for your machine.
- Once download is complete it will ask for storage location.
- Store it on external hard drive(Pen Drive). For me it got stored with the name 'WindowsSupport_underBootcamp'
- Now if 'Boot camp Assistant' is not opened then re-open it.
- Select the second option ' I have the Mac Os X installation disc that came with my mac or ……..'
- Click on 'Continue' button. It will open next window 'Create a partition for Windows'.
- Decide how much you would wish to let windows use for me I choose 50GB and click on 'Partition' button.
- Click on Partition button then Insert 'Licensed Window-OS 7' disk and click on 'Start Installation' and system will automatically reboot.
- It will now open in windows environment. Complete the windows7 set-up.
Issues
- Now even though you have installed complete new OS on your machine you still will encounter lot many troubles and most of them are because of drives misplacement. For eg. with me my installation failed to load network drivers so I wasn't able to connect to the internet. Then I realized even audio drivers too were missing.
Solution:
- Insert the 'Pen Drive' and unzip the 'WindowsSupport_underBootcamp' folder.
- Navigate inside the 'Boot Camp' folder and run the 'setup.exe'
- Reboot the OS and your windows machine is ready to use at it's best.
--> Note:
- Holding down the option key at startup brings up the boot manager, allowing the user to choose which operating system to boot.
OR
- If you are inside Mac environment and want to go to windows then open 'Startup Disk'
And press 'Restart...'
OR
- If you are inside Windows-os environment then 'Bootcamp' will appear in your menu options. You can navigate to Mac from here.
--> Video guidelines are also available here
All the best for your installation.
