Installing Windows 7 on Mac

[Ascendant Warrior he/him]

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.

[Curious Anamaximder he/him]

I don't know how to do that.

[Haelbarde he/him]

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?

[Kestrel she/her]

I use a VM, run through the software Parallels.

[Ascendant Warrior he/him]

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

[Haelbarde he/him]

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...

[Ascendant Warrior he/him]

I'll give that a try, thanks. I very well could just be overthinking this process.

[Jondesu he/him]

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

[mfhscoobydoo he/him]

 

so what about bootcamp?

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