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How to install windows 10 on mac withoiut bootcamp 2017

HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10 ON MAC WITHOIUT BOOTCAMP 2017 HOW TO
HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10 ON MAC WITHOIUT BOOTCAMP 2017 INSTALL
HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10 ON MAC WITHOIUT BOOTCAMP 2017 WINDOWS 10
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Your computer should detect the flash drive you’ve inserted. Untick the “Install Windows” option below. The “Download drivers” option just below it should be automatically ticked as well. When you reach the “Select tasks” step, tick “Create a Windows installation drive”. Pass the intro, and insert your blank flash drive that will be used as Windows installer. Once you’ve downloaded your ISO, go to Applications -> Utilities, and open Bootcamp Assistant.

HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10 ON MAC WITHOIUT BOOTCAMP 2017 WINDOWS 10

Windows 10 flash drives made by Microsoft don’t have Apple drivers, and you absolutely need them on a Mac.

HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10 ON MAC WITHOIUT BOOTCAMP 2017 INSTALL

You need to download the ISO on Internet, because even if you already have bought a Windows 10 flash drive, Bootcamp will ask for a downloaded ISO so it can install the installer as well as very important Apple-specific drivers on a new flash drive. Choose the version that you bought with your key and choose your language. Like all the rest of my screenshots in this blog, you can click on them to zoom in and view them easily, they will open in a new tab.ĭownload a Windows 10 ISO on Microsoft’s website. I’ve made plenty of screenshots for this tutorial. And if you follow this tutorial, it means that you automatically agree that I am in no way responsible for any damage that could be inflicted to your computer if anything goes wrong. Which means that I won’t offer technical support (because if I did it to one person, then I’d have to do it for everyone and it would be much too time consuming), and beyond this tutorial, you’re entirely on your own. This is just a tutorial showing you the process and the right way to install Windows on your Mac.

HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10 ON MAC WITHOIUT BOOTCAMP 2017 HOW TO

So if you don’t know what you’re doing, or if you don’t know simple things such as how to backup your Mac or what a dual boot is, don’t do it. Because partitioning is potentially dangerous, meaning that if anything goes wrong, it will go catastrophically wrong. Installing Windows on your Mac, and partitioning in general, means that you always need to backup your computer first. Because I have no choice, I need to write a warning. Once you have all of these ready, it’s time for me to scare you a bit. Be sure that you have a whole weekend to do it. Time, because the whole process takes about two days.

A blank 8 GB USB 3.0 drive, which you’ll use as your Windows installer.

An 8 GB USB 3.0 drive containing an installer of your current version of OS X / macOS.

An external hard drive with a Time Machine backup of your whole hard drive.

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A Windows 8 or 10 key (notice that this tutorial describes the process with Windows 10, but you can use Windows 8 if you prefer).

An Intel Mac (obviously) with a recent version of OS X / macOS.

This is by far the best solution for gaming and also to use plenty of other applications that can run only on Windows. Bootcamp is the best solution indeed, as you’ll have a dual boot, which means benefiting from two operating systems without any loss of performance, and Bootcamp makes installing Windows on a Mac ridiculously easy. If you’ve come here, you’ve certainly been advised to play on Windows in a dual boot with Bootcamp in order to manage to play without difficulties, as the Sims 3 can use twice as much RAM to run the Sims 3 on Windows without crashing (2 GB on OS X / macOS, 4 GB on Windows). I know how frustrating it is, as somebody who plays the Sims on Mac too.

This tutorial isn’t directly about the sims 3, but hopefully it will help you, Mac players, who can’t play the Sims 3 on Mac without great difficulties due to RAM issues that happen only on this OS, and who can’t even play the whole Sims 2 game on Mac.