Apple has created a loyal user base, but some Mac users still need to use Windows programs and the OS in general. Since Apple transitioned to the Intel processor for the brains of the Mac, the company provided an easy way to set up and install Windows in a dual boot configuration with OS X with its Boot Camp technology. In this article, we take a look at doing that.
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After Boot Camp downloads your drivers, the next step is to identify the amount of space you will allocate to Windows 10, depending on individual factors. Future needs must be taken into account. Do you plan always to have Windows around? If so, consider giving Windows 10 a fair amount of space to operate. Consider the following:
On-screen, I am presented with two options, I will boot from the EFI Boot drive (yellow drive icon) where my Windows 10 installation files are stored. This is an important part of the setup. Depending on the model Mac your using, you might have to hold down C or Option keys to present the boot options. In my case, I will hold down the Option key that will present options for the volume I want to boot from. Use the left and right arrow keys to select it, then press Enter.
When you wish to boot into OS X, click the Show hidden icons button in the Notification Area, click Boot Camp, then click Restart in OS X or Click Start then Restart; immediately as you hear the startup chime, press hold down the Option key. Use the left or right arrow key to select Macintosh HD, then hit Enter.
If you want to set your default operating system, click System Preferences in the OS X Dock. Click Start-up Disk, then select either Macintosh HD or Windows Bootcamp. You can open the Boot Camp Control Panel in Windows 10 (press Windows key+X then click Control Panel) then make similar changes.
Once you download the drivers, they will be packaged in a compressed format. You will need to use a free compression utility such as WinRAR or 7-Zip to extract it. Please note, you need to do this from a Windows PC.
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Possible fixes:If you install rEFIt without rEFItBlesser you will get the rEFIt boot menu after OS X hibernation. On OS X 10.7 Lion however, this does not fully work, instead you get a black screen and have to hard shutdown your Mac. But hey! At least it interrupts the automatic OS X boot, right? Maybe it can be tweaked further from there.
As mentioned on earlier OS X:s the rEFIt boot menu actually does come up after hibernation shutdown + power on. This allows you to e.g. boot your Boot Camp Windows 7 partition instead. There are problems here as well though. Apparently the OS X partition loses its hibernation flag if you follow this method, which means that the next time you boot into OS X, it will not return from its hibernation state. Instead it will do a clean startup. Why is this?Does OS X look for the existence of a sleep image to determine wether to wake up from hibernation or to do a clean start or does it have some kind of system variable/flag set?
When Win 7 goes into hibernate it shuts down completely and you can then boot into OS X on startup. On OS X however, hibernate forces you to wake up into OS X. Can you hack this so that you're allowed to select boot partition after OS X hibernates and still be able to return later to OS X and wake it up from its hibernate?
When Windows hibernates, it dumps the contents of RAM to C:\Hiberfil.sys and sets a flag in the registry that the machine is hibernated. When you first boot a Windows machine, the boot sector code loads the BCD file, which loads that portion of the registry very early in the boot process and sees that the system is hibernated. After performing a basic sanity check, it loads hiberfil.sys back into memory. The important thing here is that all all of this is contained within the filesystem. This is why you can freely boot to OS X, then boot again back to Windows and it will continue to resume from the hibernation file.
The same is not true of OS X. When OS X hibernates, it dumps the contents of RAM to /var/vm/sleepimage the same way Windows does. But it saves the hibernation flag in the PRAM, not the filesystem (the setting is called IORegistryCurrentSleepMode if you're interested). When you turn a Mac back on, the values in PRAM are read before an attempt is even made to boot to the OS. If the flag indicates that the system is hibernated, the first thing it does is flip it back to a normal status. The firmware then immediately boots the system and ignores the Startup Disk preference and any attempts to Option+boot. You don't even get a startup chime. On a Mac, the firmware contains all the logic needed to inspect the filesystem and boot the OS. It does not need boot code the way Windows does.
When you throw rEFIt into the mix, it inserts itself into the process. It replaces the normal /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi (which is OS X's boot loader), with its own boot loader file. This is where things get fuzzy for me because this is all Apple proprietary stuff, but the bottom line is that when the firmware is booting OS X, it passes whatever arguments needed to load /var/vm/sleepimage instead of the normal Darwin kernel. rEFIt does not do this properly with Lion and later. But regardless of whether it's an older version of OS X or a newer one, the firmware has already flipped the hibernation bit before rEFIt even loads. This is why resuming OS X from hibernate is no longer possible after the first power-on.
I'm a computer novice and i wanna reinstall my windows 10 for my HP laptop since it was crashed, but i have a macbook pro, so I was wonder if it's possible to create a windows 10 bootable installer USB on macOS without terminal?
In case anyone stumbles onto this thread I'm going to give what I believe to be the easiest solution to this problem. You don't need to download any new software to do this, everything is already included in current Mac OS. Sorry if this is a breach of etiquette (commenting on an old thread!)
****EDIT**** The ExFAT formatted drive with Windows ISO did not work as a bootable drive. I had to create a Windows partition on my hard drive and boot into that to make a functioning boot drive.
This trick does not work at all! Only a small portion of computers recognize exFAT USB as bootable device. It failed on my Dell desktop. FAT32 is more recommended. In addition, a single copy-and-paste of Windows 10 ISO file is not going to make the drive bootable.
Otherwise, try UUByte ISO Editor app instead, it is more suitable for beginners. It only took me 7 minutes to make a bootable Windows 10 USB on my MacBook Air (Big Sur with M1 chip) . No commands and hassle free. You can refer to this step-by-step guide (Method 2):
I ended up just creating a Windows partition on my Mac using bootcamp and booting into that, creating the disk drive in Windows because every other method I tried failed including multiple apps designed specifically for this purpose.
If you are using a newer Windows 10 ISO (after version 201809), then UUByte ISO Editor is the best app for creating a bootable USB on Mac. It automatically splits the large ISO file into small parts so the Windows installation files can be sit on a FAT32 partition, which is the only working file system supported by Mac for Windows install. Also, this app works on latest Big Sur and M1 Mac as just tested it on a M1 MacBook Air with macOS Big Sur 11.5.
If you are using an old version of Windows 10 ISO, then Boot Camp Assistant can help you get this done easily. It is a built-in free app shipped with macOS by default. However, this feature is removed from Boot Camp app on macOS Big Sur. You can still use this app for creating bootable Windows USB on Catalina and Mojave as far as I know.
Share the tools and methods I know: How about the boot camp Assistant? Although it does not work sometimes, as a multi-boot creation utility, it can create a Windows 10 bootable USB on your Mac. If you are good at CMD, it is possible to use CMD to create Windows 10 bootable USB on a Mac in a virtual machine. But if you are a computer novice or are not know much about CMD, please find another way. If you have installed Windows iSO files on your Mac, try UNetbottin, plug in the USB on Mac, and launch the Disk Utility option. Open the Windows .iso file in UNetbottin and burn it to the USB flash drive. Generally speaking, the task is OK completed in 15 minutes. Suppose you are not interested in the above software. I think UUbyte iSO Editor is enough. Just download and install this software on your Mac and run it. Next, you can burn iSO files to USB. The whole process won't take a long time. UUbyte iSO Editor is a good choice for computer novices. And can quickly complete tasks without any technical requirements.
For the fewest issues or problems with a bootable windows 10 iso the best option is to find a windows computer or ask a friend, neighbor, relative, or local computer store to make the iso on a computer with Windows.
Update (2016-07-20): I have updated this post with further improvementsrelating to downloading of Boot Camp drivers and ensuring that a Hybrid MBR isnot used (which would cause issues when installing Windows). 2ff7e9595c
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