Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Banana

With Boot Camp, you can install Microsoft Windows 10 on your Mac, so switch betwixt macOS and Windows when restarting your Mac.

What you need to install Windows 10 on Mac

  • iMac introduced in 2012 or laterone
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in 2013 or afterwards

Thelatest macOS updates, which can include updates to Boot Campsite Assistant. You volition use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows x.

64GB or more thanfree storage infinite on your Mac startup deejay:

  • Your Mac tin can have as fiddling as 64GB of free storage infinite, but at least 128GB of free storage space provides the best experience. Automatic Windows updates require that much space or more than.
  • If you have an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of retention (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least as much gratis storage infinite as your Mac has retention.2

An external USB wink drive with a storage chapters of 16GB or more than, unless you're using aMac that doesn't need a wink bulldoze to install Windows.

A 64-bit version of Windows x Home or Windows 10 Pro on a deejay paradigm (ISO) or other installation media. If installing Windows on your Mac for the get-go time, this must be a total version of Windows, not an upgrade.

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How to install Windows x on Mac

To install Windows, use Kick Camp Assistant, which is included with your Mac.

one. Cheque your Secure Boot setting

Acquire how to check your Secure Boot setting. The default Secure Kicking setting is Full Security. If you changed it to No Security, modify it back to Full Security before installing Windows. After installing Windows, y'all can use any Secure Boot setting without affecting your ability to showtime upwardly from Windows.

two. Use Boot Campsite Banana to create a Windows partition

Open up Boot Army camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications binder. Follow the onscreen instructions.

  • If yous're asked to insert a USB drive, plug your USB flash drive into your Mac. Boot Army camp Assistant will use information technology to create a bootable USB bulldoze for Windows installation.
  • When Boot Camp Banana asks you to prepare the size of the Windows partition, remember the minimum storage-space requirements in the previous section. Set a partition size that meets your needs, because you can't change its size subsequently.

3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) partition

When Boot Camp Banana finishes, your Mac restarts to the Windows installer. If the installer asks where to install Windows, select the BOOTCAMP partition and click Format. In well-nigh cases, the installer selects and formats the BOOTCAMP partition automatically.

iv. Install Windows

Unplug any external devices that aren't necessary during installation. Then click Side by side and follow the onscreen instructions to begin installing Windows.

5. Use the Boot Campsite installer in Windows

After Windows installation completes, your Mac starts up in Windows and opens a "Welcome to the Boot Camp installer" window. Follow the onscreen instructions to install Boot Camp and Windows support software (drivers). You will exist asked to restart when done.

  • If the Kick Military camp installer never opens,open up the Boot Campsite installer manually and use it to complete Boot Military camp installation.
  • If yous have an external display connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the display will be blank (black, grey, or blue) for upwards to 2 minutes during installation.

How to switch between Windows and macOS

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If yous have one of these Intel-based Mac models using Os X El Capitan or afterwards, you don't need a USB wink bulldoze to install Windows:

  • iMac introduced in 2015 or later on
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in late 2013 or later

one. If you're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Belatedly 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Belatedly 2012) with a 3TB hard drive and macOS Mojave or afterward, learn about an alert you might meet during installation.

2. For instance, if your Mac has 128GB of memory, its startup disk must have at to the lowest degree 128GB of storage space bachelor for Windows. To come across how much memory your Mac has, choose Apple menu  > About This Mac. To see how much storage space is bachelor, click the Storage tab in the aforementioned window.

three. These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives equally an option. Apple recommends 256GB or larger hard drives so that yous tin can create a Kick Military camp segmentation of at least 128GB.

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