Click OK and then hit apply, and you'll have a FAT thumb drive, no matter how small it was when you started! You're going to want to format the thumb drive to be MS-DOS (FAT) format, which you can do by clicking the name of the thumb drive in DU, then Partition, then changing the drop down from 'current' to '1 partition' and making sure the Format dropdown is set to 'MS-DOS (FAT).' You're also going to need to click the "Options." button and make sure the Master Boot Record bubble is checked and not GUID Partition Table. Put your thumb drive in and go to Disk Utility. Always back yr stuff up before doing any of this, it's not my fault if you try this and it totally wrecks your shit, man. There's a lot of waiting and restarting involved.Ī backup.
Windows 7 takes 20gb of space to install, plus ISOs take space, virtual machines take space, you don't want to run out of space half way through this.
Otherwise you can make an ISO from your own DVD on a friend's computer or whatever, just don't pirate it :^)Īt least 100gb of free space on your hard drive. I got mine from Microsoft Dreamspark so it's an authorized legal copy, if you're a student you can do that too if your college is signed up to the program. Back up any important files on it because we're gonna reformat it a half dozen times before this is done.Ī Windows 7 ISO. It was actually $2 cheaper at Best Buy too. People have all kinds of voodoo beliefs about some thumbdrives not being able to boot and stuff, I used this one which I decided on after minutes of research at a Best Buy looking for the cheapest one and it worked fine.
wait, no, the opposite of that, it's stupidly difficult and time consuming compared to installing straight from a CD.Ī thumb drive. Thankfully Apple made it really really easy to work around this.
If the optical drive in your MacBook works and you have a Windows 7 DVD then it's as simple as running Bootcamp Assistant and following the prompts, but my optical drive is broken, and many others have taken theirs out to put a second hard drive or SSD in.
I've seen a ton of stuff all over the Internet about how to do this, and some of it is outdated and some of it is just wrong, so I decided to write up exactly what I did that worked after trying for almost a week to get this to work.
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