Install Windows x on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant

With Boot Military camp, you can install Microsoft Windows 10 on your Mac, so switch between macOS and Windows when restarting your Mac.

What you need to install Windows ten on Mac

  • MacBook introduced in 2015 or subsequently
  • MacBook Air introduced in 2012 or later
  • MacBook Pro introduced in 2012 or after
  • Mac mini introduced in 2012 or afterwards
  • iMac introduced in 2012 or subsequently1
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in 2013 or afterward

The latest macOS updates, which can include updates to Boot Camp Assistant. You will apply Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows x.

64GB or more free storage space on your Mac startup disk:

  • Your Mac tin can take as little every bit 64GB of free storage infinite, but at least 128GB of free storage space provides the best experience. Automatic Windows updates require that much infinite or more.
  • If y'all have an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of retentivity (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least every bit much free storage infinite as your Mac has memory.2

An external USB flash bulldoze with a storage capacity of 16GB or more than, unless y'all're using a Mac that doesn't need a flash bulldoze to install Windows.

A 64-bit version of Windows 10 Domicile or Windows 10 Pro on a disk prototype (ISO) or other installation media. If installing Windows on your Mac for the commencement fourth dimension, this must be a full version of Windows, non an upgrade.

  • If your copy of Windows came on a USB flash drive, or you take a Windows product key and no installation disc, download a Windows 10 deejay image from Microsoft.
  • If your copy of Windows came on a DVD, you might need to create a disk prototype of that DVD.

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How to install Windows 10 on Mac

To install Windows, employ Kicking Camp Assistant, which is included with your Mac.

one. Check your Secure Boot setting

Larn how to cheque your Secure Kicking setting. The default Secure Boot setting is Total Security. If you changed it to No Security, change information technology back to Total Security earlier installing Windows. After installing Windows, you can use whatsoever Secure Boot setting without affecting your power to offset upward from Windows.

2. Use Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition

Open Kicking Camp Banana, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Follow the onscreen instructions.

  • If you're asked to insert a USB drive, plug your USB wink drive into your Mac. Boot Campsite Assistant will utilise it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation.
  • When Boot Army camp Banana asks y'all to set the size of the Windows sectionalisation, remember the minimum storage-infinite requirements in the previous section. Set a partition size that meets your needs, considering you can't change its size later.

3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) partition

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

iv. Install Windows

Unplug whatsoever external devices that aren't necessary during installation. Then click Adjacent and follow the onscreen instructions to brainstorm installing Windows.

five. Use the Boot Camp installer in Windows

After Windows installation completes, your Mac starts upwardly 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 Boot Camp installer never opens, open the Boot Campsite installer manually and use it to complete Boot Camp installation.
  • If you have an external display connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the display volition be bare (black, gray, or blue) for upward to 2 minutes during installation.

How to switch between Windows and macOS

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If you accept one of these Intel-based Mac models using OS 10 El Capitan or afterward, you lot don't need a USB wink drive to install Windows:

  • MacBook introduced in 2015 or later
  • MacBook Air introduced in 2017 or later on3
  • MacBook Pro introduced in 2015 or later3
  • iMac introduced in 2015 or later
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in late 2013 or after

ane. If y'all're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Belatedly 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) with a 3TB hard drive and macOS Mojave or afterwards, learn about an alarm you might run across during installation.

2. For case, if your Mac has 128GB of memory, its startup disk must have at least 128GB of storage infinite available for Windows. To run into how much memory your Mac has, cull Apple card  > About This Mac. To see how much storage space is available, click the Storage tab in the same window.

3. These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives as an option. Apple recommends 256GB or larger hard drives so that you can create a Boot Camp partition of at least 128GB.

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