Ascendant Warrior Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 So I'm trying to install Windows on my MacBook Pro (early 2011). I have an ISO made from a download from my school's website, but I can't seem to make my USB drive bootable with that ISO file. Any tips? Any tutorials online haven't been helpful so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Anamaximder Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 I don't know how to do that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haelbarde Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 What OS are you trying to create the ISO on? As in, are you trying to create it from within OSX? Also, have you considered running a virtual machine? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kestrel Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 I use a VM, run through the software Parallels. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascendant Warrior Posted August 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) I'm trying to create a partition for Windows on my MacBook (currently running OS Yosemite). I've tried a VM through VirtualBox (Parallels is too expensive for me), but it's not quite what I want. Edit: Apple's own tutorials on this have not helped me either. Edited August 31, 2015 by Ascendant Warrior 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haelbarde Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Well, I usually just reformat the USB, then mount the ISO, copy the files out of the ISO into the USB, restart the computer, then tell it to boot from the USB. I might have a look into it, but I don't use Macs so I'm not sure if the same thing works... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascendant Warrior Posted August 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 I'll give that a try, thanks. I very well could just be overthinking this process. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jondesu Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 What is the actual version of Windows 7 in the downloaded ISO? Often, the ones you get from school programs like that are a hybrid 32/64-bit installer, and those don't play nice with Boot Camp. I don't know if they would typically work better with VirtualBox, where you'd just need to set them as a boot source (add the ISO as a "drive"), but I have seen that cause problems before. jW 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfhscoobydoo Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 so what about bootcamp? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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