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1. #PUT WINDOWS 8 ON A USB FOR MAC INSTALL#
2. #PUT WINDOWS 8 ON A USB FOR MAC DRIVERS#

What? Where is Mac? Did I lose it? I messed it up!! Panic! (Make sure to remove the USB drive otherwise you will get into Windows 8 setup again). After installing Windows 8, the setup will reboot the machine and you will directly get into Windows 8. Once you get into Windows 8 setup, select the partition you created and format it to NTFS. You can then reboot the machine with bootable USB drive attached.

#PUT WINDOWS 8 ON A USB FOR MAC INSTALL#

You can then go back to boot camp assistant and select Install Windows 7 option as below:Īfter hitting continue, it will take you to the screen below where you can select the partition size. iso file of Windows 8 installation, and make the bootable USB. After this, open the Windows 7 Download tool ,select the. You can either copy the support software to the DropBox folder or the SkyDrive or another USB drive. The USB drive is required for the Windows 8 installation. Users need a precise error message as soon as possible in the process, not after waiting for half an hour. If the drive is not FAT32 formatted, it just errors out saying it cannot copy the support software after waiting for the whole download to complete. This support software requires FAT32 USB drive and is about 1 Gig in size. You can open boot camp assistant and select the second option, like below, to download Windows support software on the USB drive. You will find out why in the next section. You will need to format the USB drive using FAT32 file system formatter. iso file of Windows 8 ( or any supported OS).That’s how it used to be when I had MSDN. MSDN subscribers can directly download a. I bought a DVD from Amazon and created a. Windows 7 USB DVD download tool ( this helps in creating a bootable USB)Ģ GB free space DropBox or SkyDrive ( not required but handy) The recipe has the following ingredients besides, of course, a MacBook Based on my experience and research, I decided to put together my own post with some tips.Ĭaution: Apple and Microsoft don’t provide official support for this yet. If you just Google “installing windows 8 on mac” with Bing, you will find quite a few. There are plenty of “How to” blog posts about this. Of course, I’d need and want to put Windows 8 pro on it. After all, Apple just makes good hardware and provides very good support through the Apple store.

#PUT WINDOWS 8 ON A USB FOR MAC DRIVERS#

After dealing with continuous hardware and drivers issues on Lenovo IdeaPad y560 ( for more than 2 years!), I decided to sell it off and get a MacBook pro.