Now, sit back and enjoy your dual-booting Mac. You’ll be presented with a screen asking you which OS you want to boot into. If you have any additional questions, Apple also provides a handy guide on its website.īut how do you get back and forth between the two operating systems? When you first turn on the notebook, hold down the option button. To create a bootable Windows 7 installation USB drive, the program must make changes to the content extracted from the ISO. 5 Partition 2 Windows 7 Created by boot camp - Runs great Drive 2 in upper. By default, the Windows 7 installation ISO does not support UEFI boot, so the bootable USB installation drive created with the Windows 7 installation ISO does not support UEFI boot. Of course, functions such as copy and paste, (Command+C and Command+V in Mac) are Control+C and Control+V in Windows.Īnd now you’re all done! All told, the entire process takes about 30 minutes. Restore Mac OS X and other data to hard drive, or SSD drive with Disk Utility. Insert the USB flash drive and run the command diskutil list to find out the disk name, well use /dev/disk1 as an example Now unmount the disk using diskutil. One of the nicer things about these drivers is that the Mac function row keys-brightness, volume, etc.-will work just as they do in the Mac OS. The notebook may restart a few times during this process, but when it’s finished, everything should work correctly.

After Windows has been installed, insert the USB stick with the Windows 7 drivers you previously downloaded.