Putting Boot Camp Assistant to Work. If you own a Mac that’s even a few years old, it came pre-loaded with a program called Boot Camp Assistant, which was intended to make setting up a dual boot.
Windows 8 was bad enough that it forced me — a lifelong Windows user up until that point — to switch my entire family over to Macs. But after seeing how (the Start menu is finally back and Internet Explorer is nearly gone), I’m now interested in giving it a try once again. Like most people using MacBooks, I have no interest in getting rid of my laptop, but thankfully I don’t have to buy any new hardware to use Windows 10.
Thanks to Apple creating some helpful tools and some solid third-party options, it’s rather easy to get Windows 10 up and running right alongside OS X. Virtual Machine or Boot Camp? There are two easy ways to install Windows on a Mac. You can use a virtualization program, which runs Windows 10 like an app right on top of OS X, or you can use Apple’s built-in Boot Camp program to partition your hard drive to dual-boot Windows 10 right next to OS X. Virtual machines like Parallels and VMware cost upwards of $70 on top of what you already have to pay for Windows 10, and while you can run OS X and Windows simultaneously, the drain on your processing power can force both operating systems to run less than optimally. Boot Camp is the easiest way to get Windows 10 on your Mac Boot Camp doesn’t allow you to easily transfer content between OS X and Windows partitions like virtual machines do, and you can’t run the two operating systems simultaneously.
But it does give Windows full access to the processing power of your Mac. It’s also completely free (apart from the Windows 10 license), and a shared Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive folder can make data transfers a bit easier. Right now, the easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to get Windows 10 on your Mac is Boot Camp, and that’s what we’re using for this tutorial. The first thing you should do is to make sure your Mac can actually run Windows 10.
Your Mac needs at least 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM would be better) and at least 30GB of free hard drive space to properly run Boot Camp. You’ll also need at least a 16GB flash drive so Boot Camp can create a bootable drive to install Windows 10. Read Next: Our. Installing Windows 10 with Boot Camp Before we go any further, you should back up your Mac. While Boot Camp is very stable, anything can go wrong when you partition your hard drive, and you want to be protected. Once you download your copy of Windows 10 — the full version, not the upgrade — we can begin the installation process.
(You can also buy Windows 10 on a USB flash drive.) Open up Boot Camp Assistant, which can be found in the Utilities folder in your Applications list. Boot Camp will prompt you to back up your Mac, which you should have already done. The next page will ask you to select the tasks you want Boot Camp to complete. Check all the boxes, make sure your flash drive is plugged in, and click continue.
Select the Windows 10 ISO location (Boot Camp automatically found it in my Downloads folder), and choose the USB drive as the destination, and click Continue. Boot Camp will create a boot drive with all of the necessary drivers.
Now is the time to go outside and clean out the garage, start building a new vision board, or get a head start on your taxes — this is going to take a while. It took a bit over an hour for Boot Camp to finish the boot drive in our test. (Since Windows 10 is fresh out the box, Boot Camp doesn’t officially support it yet, which could mean some drivers are missing. After a few initial issues including an unresponsive Start menu that was fixed by a restart, The Verge’s MacBook Air running Windows 10 ran flawlessly, with no noticeable driver errors. But still, install at your own risk until Apple issues an update for Boot Camp.) If you want to play games, make sure your partition is large enough After Boot Camp creates your USB boot drive, it will prompt you to choose how much of your hard drive you want to partition for Windows. This is a critical decision: after you choose, you cannot shrink or expand the partition without completely reinstalling Windows.
If you just want access to Windows 10 and only plan on using a couple apps, 30GB will suffice (a minimum of 20GB is necessary). But if you’re looking to play PC games or use Windows 10 as your main OS, you’re going to want to ramp up the available space in the partition.
Once you make your decision, click Install. During this part of the installation, your Mac will restart a few times, ultimately landing you at a screen that will ask you which partition you want to install Windows 10 on. Select the partition labeled 'Boot Camp,' format it for NFTS, and continue with the installation. You’ll go through the setup wizard where Windows will ask you for the product key and you’ll be on your way. The Windows 10 experience on Mac To switch back and forth between OS X and Windows 10, you’ll need to restart your Mac. Once it begins to reboot, hold down the Option key until you see the boot manager. Click on the partition with the corresponding operating system you want to use.
Removing Windows 10 is as simple as installing it If Windows 10 is giving you issues or you just want to get rid of it, removing Windows from your Mac and restoring it to the original, single partition state is a simple process: open Boot Camp, and check the 'Remove Windows 7 or later' box, then click Continue. To remove the entire Windows partition, click Restore on the next screen.
Boot Camp will ask for your password and then restore your Mac to its original state. Windows 10 runs well on the Mac — on our early-2014 MacBook Air, the OS hasn’t shown any noticeable sluggishness or major issues that you wouldn’t find on a PC.
The biggest difference between using Windows 10 on a Mac and a PC is the keyboard. You can’t remap keys easily, which means if you were used to using Cmd+c for copy on OS X, you’ll have to remember that it won’t work on Windows (it’s Cntrl+c). It’s definitely an inconvenience, but not one big enough to say you shouldn’t give Windows 10 on Mac a try.
The main issue you’ll have is battery life, as we barely got 3 hours of usage on a full charge. Will it change when Apple updates Boot Camp for Windows 10? Possibly, but if you’re looking for anything close to the 10 hours of battery life you normally get from a MacBook Air, you should probably just pick up.
In this article, I am going to show you how to dual boot Windows 10 and macOS Sierra on PC. Apple has already released the macintosh operating system on 20 September of 2016, if you want to give a try to this OS then you are in the right place because here you will learn the complete process of how to dual boot Windows 10 and macOS Sierra 10.12, Hackintosh on PC. Since the apple’s new operating system for macintosh has been released, the Hackintosh experts are busy to create and manage to make easy tools like Unibeast and Multibeast to make a Hackintosh on PC and easy way to dual boot macOS Sierra and Windows 10.
So follow below step by step guide to dual boot Windows 10 and macOS Sierra on PC but first need to know what’s dual boot. What is Dual Boot? Dual-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a computer and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers to the standard configuration of specifically two operating systems. It means when we install two operating systems on single Machine. Sometimes it’s called Multi-boot or dual boot as well. If you install and use three operating systems like Mac, Windows, and Kali Linux on a single machine then in this cause, it called triple boot.
Now that you have understood what is dual boot, so let dual boot Windows 10 and macOS Sierra 10.12 on PC. Dual boot Windows 10 and macOS Sierra on PC Before to start dual booting, you must know about this article, that from where you have to start, how you should do the steps and how to finish. Firstly you should have the requirement that mentioned below then you have to install macOS Sierra first and then Windows 10. Please remember about partitioning the Hard disk drive, you have to partition it for Mac and Windows in the duration of installing macOS Sierra. So don’t forget to backup your file before formatting your HDD or SSD. Requirement.
Bootable USB Installer for macOS Sierra. If you don’t have one, then follow the article to create a USB Installer for macOS Sierra using. Bootable USB or CD/DVD For Windows 10. Follow the article how to create. Two free empty partitions for macOS Sierra and Windows 10.
A PC (Laptop or Desktop) with full Intel supported to install and support macOS Sierra and Windows 10. Extra accessories like mouse, keyboard and much more. Because of macOS Sierra may not identify your laptop’s keyboard or mouse until you didn’t install the drive Separately. Installing macOS Sierra 10.12 To dual boot Windows 10 and macOS Sierra on PC, it is better to install macOS Sierra first.
If you install Windows 10 first then while installing macOS Sierra it might create a problem for you and you will be a little in trouble. If you have installed macOS Sierra on your PC then that’s okay just skip this and try to install Windows 10. Also if you have installed Windows 10 already then just follow the steps below or check this article. Step #1. Create Bootable USB Installer For macOS Sierra In this step, you have to download and create a bootable USB installer for macOS Sierra using UniBeast. This move will help you to Boot with the USB installer and create a partition for Mac and finally, install the Mac from the USB Installer to OS X Extended (Journaled) partition. It’s a bit long, so due to this, we have managed 2 articles and different methods for it check the articles and follow step by step the article to bootable create USB Installer.
Also linked in the requirement section. Setup Parts of Your Motherboard’s BIOS or UEFI Now after downloading and creating bootable USB installer for macOS Sierra 10.12. Then here you will need to setup parts of your motherboard’s BIOS or UEFI. This step will let and make the USB installer to boot into clover menu. It’s so important to do this step correctly and carefully because if no then without doing this stuffs, you won’t be able to go forward and install macOS Sierra 10.12.
Press the BIOS Menu Button from your keyboard(F12, F10, F8, F2) depending on your system if can’t find then do a google search or comment us below your systems details. For Lenovo laptops, press Novo button or one key recovery then select BIOS Setup and hit enter from your keyboard. Exit Save Changes Note: This works great on Lenovo based computer.
And this may not work for any other systems. So due to this, we highly recommend you to do the below guides for your system.
Load Optimized Defaults. Set the SATA Controller Mode to AHCI.
Set the Boot Priority to UEFI. Set OS Type to Other OS. If your CPU supports VT-d, disable it. If your system has CFG-Lock, disable it. If your system has Secure Boot Mode, disable it. If you have a six series or x58 system with AWARD BIOS, disable USB 3.0.
Save and exit. If your system didn’t boot automatically then go to Boot Manger and select the Bootable USB Installer that you create in step 1, Manually.
Boot From EFI USB Device Step #3. Boot into Bootable USB Installer of macOS Sierra After you get into Clover Menu then if your system has full intel supported then select the Bootable USB Installer. But if that didn’t work then you need to enter boot flag for your system to boot into USB Installer. If you have trouble to boot from USB Installer then comment us your problem below in the comment section and also check this article, to know how to boot correctly.
Now from Clover boot menu, select the bootable USB Installer ( External) and hit enter. Boot into USB Installer Step #4. Choose Your Language for macOS Sierra Now after Booting successfully with the boot flag or without, then the USB installer should take you to Language chooser page. Select your Language for macOS Sierra and click on the arrow button to go forward. Create Partition For macOS Sierra with Disk Utility So after you chosen your language, then you should partition the disk for macOS Sierra 10.12.
This step will help you to install macOS Sierra from the USB installer to the drive that you are going to create in this step. #1. To partition the Disk for macOS. Now click on Utilities Disk Utility. Restart to Complete the Installation of macOS Sierra on Mac HD Step #7. Boot into macOS Sierra Partition or Disk (HFS) When your computer rebooted, then it must automatically take you to the USB installer Clover menu.
If no then boot yourself from Boot Manager the EFI USB installer that created in step 1. After that on the clover menu, don’t make any changes because it will automatically boot into the disk that Mac OS is newly installed. If no then select HFS disk icon that named your Mac HD and hit enter from your keyboard. Boot From Mac HD Note: If you have booted USB Installer with boot flags then, this time, use the same boot flag to boot from macOS Sierra partition or HFS disk. Perform a clean Installation of macOS Sierra In the previous steps, if you have installed macOS Sierra from the USB Installer to the partition that you created for macOS Sierra 10.12, then after booting from that partition that macOS Sierra is installed on it.
Here it’s time to setup and performing a clean installation of macOS Sierra. Well, we have another article also for further information with the shots visit the link below to perform a clean installation of macOS Sierra or keep following this article below. (With Shots) #1. Choose your Country and click on Continue. Choose Language #2.
Pick a keyboard Layout and click on Continue. Now select your method to transfer information to this mac and click on Continue. Enable location services and click on Continue. In this step, you have to Sign in with your Apple ID. If you don’t have, then create a free Apple ID “ If you don’t want to sign in with Apple ID or don’t want to create Apple ID, then Choose Don’t Sign in and click on Continue. Agree to the Terms and Conditions.
Fill out the Full name, Account name, Password, Hint and check the box of Set time zone based on Current location. Finally click on Continue to create your user account for macOS Sierra, that will be installed on your PC. MacOS Sierra Installed on PC Installing Windows 10 Now after installing macOS Sierra on your PC and now you if you have installed it successfully then you’re almost 50% done. Because your PC may support window 10 and it’s easy to install windows.
So to complete dual boot Windows 10 and macOS Sierra on PC then keep following here step by step. If you faced any problem then Please comment us below to solve other problem also. Create Bootable USB for Windows 10 As I mentioned in at the requirement section, that you need a bootable USB of Windows 10 or a Windows 10 CD DVD, to install Windows 10 on your PC and complete your dual booting. If you don’t have Bootable USB of Windows 10 or Windows 10 CD DVD, then buy one or create a bootable USB for Windows 10 with the help of article below. Perform a Clean Installation of Windows 10 #1. Insert the Bootable USB or the Windows 10 CD DVD to your PC and Boot your PC with that whether it’s a bootable USB or Windows 10 CD DVD. When the system booted, enter your language, and other preferences then click Next.
Windows 10 Installed Post Installation of macOS Sierra to Complete Dual Boot Process So now if you have successfully installed macOS Sierra and Windows 10 on PC then you might face some problems after the installation of macOS Sierra, like sound and Wi-Fi isn’t working, can’t boot into macOS Sierra without the USB Installer or no bootloader, no internet connection and the most important that, if you are unable to boot into macOS Sierra that is installed on your PC without the USB Installer then you need a post installation. Follow the article step by step.
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First of all thanks a lot for such a wonderful tutorial. I had tried to install Yosemite onto my PC and dual boot it along with my Windows 8.1 a few months ago. I was part successful. I was just facing a problem of graphics memory. Eventhough my laptop has Intel HD graphics 5500 along with Nvidia geforce 820m, MAC just showed 4mb of INTEL graphics alone. Moreover i had one more issue. You said to change the SATA controller to AHCI.
But my HP 15 notebook r203tx has a INSYDE F41.A BIOS which doesn’t has this setting. What shall i do? Please help me. Will be waiting for your response. Thanks a lot again. I need your urgent reply please.
I created bootable USB as per your guide. But after writing the image, the USB drive splits to two and one being the EFI and other being another drive. It suddenly asks me to format the second drive ( not the EFI). When I kept it as it is and booted into Clover, I could see the Clover menu as per your screenshots. However, I clicked on the first option (something like install Mac os), then some lines of code appears and system stucks. Please please reply me.
Since you’re very responsive to comments, I refreshing this page often to read your reply. I just finished my question before: 1. Made a clone of my windows from ssd to another hd with hd clone 2.
Disconnected all hd, not ssd, 3. Installed MacOs on ssd 3. Made post installs on sdd 4.
Re-connecte windows hd, set to first hd in bios and disconnected SSD with clover and MaxOS 5. Restarted system from windows installer CD 6. Choose repair windows on the hd 7. Reconnected ssd and set it so first boot again in bios 8. From now i can boot MaxOs oder Windows in Clover Boot Menu 9. Drink some beer ?. Hello dear, Now if you have one hard disk for both Windows and MacOS then you can’t use it as dual boot in single hard drive the reason is as you said above.
But you can solve that issue in cause you use two hard drives. One for Windows and one for macOS. Just like me, I was facing the same problem then Set one more hard drive to my laptop to install macOS Sierra on it then the Issue solved. Simply watch this video if you want to follow what I did to solve: How I set 2nd hard drive is my laptop. Check out the video or article guide: Video: Article. Hey dear, When you install your audio kext by mulitBeast then restart your System and while coming back from the restart on the clover screen boot with Caches into your macOS and you will have sound.
If didn’t worked then try again a couple of time (Worth). For the Dual boot process first, let me know how you are dual booting Windows 10 and macOS Sierra?
Is it on single hard disk or Separate? Because there are many causes that you should take care of like macOS and Windows should be installed as UEFI or Legacy. The guide here is good, you should follow it step by step 2. I don’t have 2 usb so first I format the usb and made it to install MacOS in this article: Then, after finish install MacOS.
I format that USB again and follow this article: THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. X550LC support UEFI, enter BIOS (F2) and select it. 3.DUAL BOOT, THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
If you already have Windows on you laptop (you said Windows 7 with lots of stuff). I’m sure that Windows will format your DISK (not just partition) as MBR not GPT. So, after you install MacOS, You WILL NOT be able to finish you Windows installation because Clover boot loader can not boot to the windows installation partition (Exactly my case).
So I have to back up my docs, files, and other stuff in my old Windows. Then, delete EVERYTHING on the disk, format it to GPT. After that, everything’s fine. I can install MacOS and Windows 10 on the same disk with dual boot (Follow the able guide). About the driver, took me 2 days to get 90% of the things to work, (still no audio), don’t expect wifi to work – it will not on this model.
I can only fully support the Intel HD4400 graphics, touchpad, ethernet. Install with Multibeast P/s my email is: Feel free to contact me.
Tnx dear for replying. Well in I’ve installed windows as legacy.
I’ve tried installing Sierra on both legacy and uefi but nothing worked. I’m using the HD graphics 5500 config.plist as I’ve HD graphics 5500. When I Terry top install in legacy the clover opens and I select boot from install Mac os Sierra and then something starts writing and when i think it’s over the laptop restarts and again the process continues. When I tried uefi the clover opens and I select the same install Mac os Sierra then the same writing starts and it stops at HID:Le and then nothing happens. Thank you in advance as I know you are going to help. Hi Thanks for your tutorial, i have successfully installed macossierra by following your tutorial in my hp laptop which already running windows 7. But when i restart i cannot boot without usb stick.
When i reboot without usb it is showing “error: undknown filesystem. Entering resue mode grub rescue ” Please help me. And also please tell me how to install ethernet, wifi and activate touch. My system details SYSTEMS DETAILS HP G62 NOTEBOOK PC SYSTEM BOARD ID 1425 PROCESSOR TYPE INTEL(R) CORE(TM) i3 CPU M330 @ 2.13GHZ PROCESSOR SPEED 2133MHZ BIOS VERSION F.07 BIOS VENDOR INSYDE WLAN FCC ID PD9112BNHU.