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8/14/11 at 3:02pm
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Just picked up a 2011 MBP 15'' with the high res screen two weeks ago for tax free weekend for a great deal. However for some college computer classes i will still need Windows 7 from time to time. I briefly read about Bootcamp and Vmware Fusion. I have decided Bootcamp sounds like the thing for me. Plus id like to play a few games on there in windows mainly BFBC2.
So is there anything i need besides the Bootcamp assistant already on my Mac. Im quite new to this Mac thing just don't want to screw up. Thanks.
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8/14/11 at 3:11pm
Not really. You can pull up a guide online to help you as well, but I put 7 on my macbook with no issues using bootcamp. It is actually nice to be able to jump back and forth when needed.
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8/14/11 at 3:17pm
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Not really. You can pull up a guide online to help you as well, but I put 7 on my macbook with no issues using bootcamp. It is actually nice to be able to jump back and forth when needed.
So bootcamp assistant is fine. What about the actual OS Windows 7 on a hard disk is that preferred or can i just download a license?
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8/20/11 at 4:00am
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So bootcamp assistant is fine. What about the actual OS Windows 7 on a hard disk is that preferred or can i just download a license?
I'd purchase a disc, or burn the image of Windows 7 to a disc (if that's possible). The short version is this: Run Boot Camp Assistant > Create a partition for Windows and select an amount of HDD space > insert your Windows disc and proceed > follow the prompts and format your Boot Camp partition to NTFS within the Windows installer (make sure not to format anything else) and then continue.

It's a good idea to backup before you start.
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post #5 of 9
8/27/11 at 10:18pm
bootcamps the way to go, very straight forward, the only thing i would remember is the keys to hold upon boot to go into win7, while back buddy was unable to get into windows as he forgot the boot keys haha
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9/20/12 at 9:17am
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sorry to hijack this thread, but where do you download bootcamp? I'm on my girlfriend's mac pro (late 2011 15 inch i7)

The website has nothing but updates. How the heck do I go about running this "bootcamp." I have plenty of ISO's of windows (get it through the IT department at school)

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9/20/12 at 5:16pm
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sorry to hijack this thread, but where do you download bootcamp? I'm on my girlfriend's mac pro (late 2011 15 inch i7)

The website has nothing but updates. How the heck do I go about running this "bootcamp." I have plenty of ISO's of windows (get it through the IT department at school)

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It's pre-installed on her Mac. Just search Spotlight (CMD+Space) for Boot Camp Assistant (BCA). If Spotlight is disabled, search in the applications folder and/or utilities folder inside of that.

1. You should back up before you do anything.

2. Run Boot Camp Assistant. You'll need to download the drivers for her Mac (Boot Camp Drivers) from it. You'll need to install them under Windows. You can format a USB stick as ExFat (with the drive mapping set to Master Boot Record I think) or create a small partition on an external drive and format that as ExFat. Or burn a DVD, etc.

3. Follow the prompts, set a dedicated amount of space for Windows. You can't change this later. And you should note that while there are third party apps to adjust the size of the Boot Camp partition, it's quite dangerous and could lose all the data on the drive if something goes wrong. BCA is actually changing the drive mapping on a part of the drive, so some of it is GUID and then the dedicated amount for windows is Master Boot Record. (You should only add and remove the drive via BCA as well.)

4. Continue following the prompts, select ISO, etc., and then it'll reboot and install. After, you should install the Boot Camp Drivers installer that you got from BCA earlier.
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When the PC reboots during windows installation, how will it know to boot to windows and not Lion. How do you switch between the two?
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9/20/12 at 5:30pm
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When the PC reboots during windows installation, how will it know to boot to windows and not Lion. How do you switch between the two?
I believe it automatically adjusts the default boot partition to Windows, and then after the Boot Camp drivers are installed it either resets it back to OS X or you have to do it manually. You can hold option (alt) while the computer boots up to show the boot menu -- if you see the Apple you've missed it. I usually press it just after I see the plain white screen -- this is how you get into Windows.

You should make sure that after all is said and done that you go into OS X > System Preferences > Start up disk, and make sure that it's set to OS X (or Windows if you want) if it isn't set to anything it will automatically determine it upon booting which is slower, IIRC.
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