Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Running Windows 7 (RC1) on a Macbook (without Bootcamp)

appatight · 06-08-2009, 07:50 AM

I think using VMware or parallels would be a lot easier. Why would you want to install windows on your mac? Do a virtual machine... but if you absolutely have to do it that way then what version of OSX do you have? Bootcamp is your best option, trust me. If you are using Tiger then there was a beta version of bootcamp that you could use it's expired now but if you put your system date back to I think it's September 2006 it'll let you use it again. And of course if you have Leopard then bootcamp is preinstalled. After that boot camp will burn a disc with windows drivers. Try to use that and see if it helps.

06-08-2009, 07:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
appatight Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 39 OS: Mac OSX 10.5, Windows XP SP 2, Ubuntu, Fedora Core 8	Re: Running Windows 7 (RC1) on a Macbook (without Bootcamp) I think using VMware or parallels would be a lot easier. Why would you want to install windows on your mac? Do a virtual machine... but if you absolutely have to do it that way then what version of OSX do you have? Bootcamp is your best option, trust me. If you are using Tiger then there was a beta version of bootcamp that you could use it's expired now but if you put your system date back to I think it's September 2006 it'll let you use it again. And of course if you have Leopard then bootcamp is preinstalled. After that boot camp will burn a disc with windows drivers. Try to use that and see if it helps. Last edited by appatight; 06-08-2009 at 07:57 AM.