Remember which partition said BOOTCAMP before you partition :)ĭance around your office (optional, but recommended!) Select the bootcamp partition, choose advanced, choose to format the BOOTCAMP partition as usual.
That is correct: we want to make the USB thumb drive not bootable now, as we are booting from the DVD and just using the thumb for support files. If you've been trying to install from a USB thumb drive, you'll probably get a message about making the thumb not bootable. We need these for Apple hardware drivers.Ĭheck the option to install windows. We don't need to copy the iso to the thumb drive, since we're using DVD.Ĭheck the option to copy the support files to the thumb drive. Uncheck the option to copy the installation files to a USB thumb drive. On my iMac, there are four usb ports at the back facing the back of the iMac from right to left I had: external DVD drive, thumb drive, blank, apple keyboard w/ non-apple mouse plugged into keyboard. The ordering of things plugged into the USB ports seems to matter. Plug in your USB thumb drive, which we will still use to hold the Apple support files. You can download the ISO file for Windows 7 Ultimate, which will allow you to install Home, Ultimate, etc flavors of 64-bit Windows 7, here.) (Use the Disk Utility to burn the ISO to the DVD if needed. If you have any half-completed installs, use the Bootcamp Assistant to remove the broken windows partition (in Bootcamp packaged with Mavericks, that should be checking the last checkbox only, to "remove").įorget about installing form a USB thumb drive, and use an external DVD drive with a Windows 7 install disk 2.
Repeated bouts of getting stuck at the error "Setup was Unable toĬreate a New System Partition" during the Windows 7 install 1. Here's my rundown of what worked seamlessly for me, after Removal of DVD drives on the iMac and USB 3, it's a world of It using Bootcamp - this is usually a painless process, but with the I recently got a new iMac, and tried to install Windows 7 on This is a little bit outside the scope of this blog, but I can't help
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