How to Install Windows 11 in macOS Monterey Using Boot Camp – Question Info

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you have both an internal bootcamp partition and an external bootcamp drive, you should see both as well as the Mac OS partition. If you are not seeing the external EFI drive then it is not bootable and something is wrong with it.

Thanks for your reply. I get three options: Mac; internal bootcamp; and EFI. When I select EFI, it actually loads up the internal bootcamp. Are you sure? If you cloned the internal bootcamp partition to the external drive, it will look the same until you make some changes to it, like installing additional applications or UI personalizations. You can also easily tell by opening Windows Disk Manager. Yes, absolutely sure. I loaded up the external version, added something to the desktop.

When I loaded up the internal version, that thing was on the desktop. Appreciate your feedback, folks. There are several mistakes in the description.

I have the same problem. Not sure how to resolve that. No idea. Worked like a charm. I have been running Windows 10 from an external drive created via this method for several months and it works pretty well. Has anyone successfully done a major update to the external bootcamp drive? This is a great tutorial, but I am having difficulty mapping the external drive to the VirtualBox disk. My specs and results below:. I went back to the previous step that directed to eject the external drive.

After doing that, I checked in Disk Utility and was not able to see the disk. I removed and replaced the disk and it showed in Disk Utility. I unmounted it in Disk Utility and ran the command again. When I continued to the VirtualBox, I ran into another error. There were no files in the WIN10 folder. When VirtualBox opened, I pressed the new button, named it WIN10, the type was set to Microsoft Windows and the version Windows 10 bit , and then I pressed continue and accepted the default memory size, pressed continue again, chose the Use an existing virtual hard disk file, and pressed the button to the right of the dropdown menu and looked for the file, but nothing showed up.

I just started this process last night on my MacBook Pro with a 2Tb Seagate hard-drive, and everything was working relatively well, until I tried to download the windows support software. I disconnected the flash drive, and pressed continue and saw no task select window. It skipped that step completely for me I tried a few times, and it worked.

So I went to the terminal and entered. Hi, can I use a WD my passport as an externel drive to install windows 10 on my macbook air , versjon Hi everyone! Nice tutorial. Your instructions for this particular task would be more understandable with this knowledge, to generalize the task. I always seem to have some problems getting the ReFind boot manager to work for booting onto the external drive. Many thanks! Is there a way to clone such external disk containing Boot Camp to boot Windows on Mac?

But you do need a Windows machine, or a Mac with Bootcamp running Windows. WinToUSB is ground breaking software. The paid professional version is very reasonable considering its features. I made a bootable clone of my bootcamp partition to an external SSD in a snap, was up and running in less than 25 minutes. Select the bootcamp. Many Thanks for the very clear instructions! Will all this work on a previously partitioned external drive? If I click on the Add icon, I can browse to bootcamp.

Same here. Also stuck here. Not sure about the wording, but I think raffaele meant eject the drive again in Finder. Enlightning Hooray! Enlightening blog post which saved me hours of trials and errors. The VM shutdown is a critical step, and you should wait a lot when restarting the Mac on the fresh installed Windows 10 external disk.

At that time the Mac seemed frozen but it was doing a lot of work. Be patient and do not forget to install the Windows drivers from the USB flash key to enable all the Mac hardware internet, bluetooth, etc.

However, I faced a problem which is I cannot see any other drive on boot screen. I followed the steps and everything went right until I should boot the the new windows disc. The disc doesnt show up in the boot list. Same problem here. It show only my mac disk. If anyone knows how to get passed this. It would be much appreciated. I tried the below-linked approach the other day and it worked flawlessly, and uses a free copy of WinToUSB from the virtual machine version of Windows to make the external disk bootable.

This approach was flawless the first time. VMWare Fusion 12 has a free license for personal use you just have to register an account and is a lot less dodgy than VirtualBox, which I found to be slow and unstable by comparison. Or will everything transfer over okay because it is all saved on the SSD?

Whenever I try to boot from the External Hard Drive, it freezes on the screen with all the boot options. Have followed these instructions a number of times now. Every time I start the VM it gets as far as loading files, displays the Starting Windows logo screen and gets stuck there.

No additional progress, no additional information. The first time and only the first time I tried this, it copied everything on to the USB drive and got as far as the first reboot, and I cancelled the VM reboot, and restarted holding option key as advised. Every time. I think it has to be formatted as NTFS. It was about a year ago I believe. I got the info from some others between then and when this blog was first posted. I printed out the instructions and read through every single comment ever posted, notating or changing instructions where they applied.

Got it to work on second try so the early comments here really helped me. Yes, the first and only time that it progressed past the Windows startup screen, Setup took me through the bit about formatting it as NTFS, and this did happen — but only that one time. Ever since, it just stalls on the Windows Startup screen. Then … I installed the Samsung driver 1.

The second time the EFI was successfully created. But not the first. Followed instructions to the letter on a iMac mid and after the first restart when you power down the virtual machine the boot screen would only show the Macintosh HD — no sign of the external USB. Yeah, me too. The example actually shows disk4, not disk3. That said, hey, this is a brilliant tutorial. Thank you so much for writing this! I despite artificial limitations that prevent things which are technically possible so I love workarounds like this!

But what can I do if I want one more partition on this flash drive? Could I just format it to single partition, then download bootcamp drivers, move them to safe place, partition my drive and put drivers back? I have run into a problem where I cant install Things that require a restart like bootcamp drivers.

I just get a folder icon With? Do you know how to fix that? I re-followed all the steps and realized I missed powering off the virtual machine.

Thanks for the great instructions. I am not able to format in the drive selection start up process. System does not allow me to format the SSD as the format click button is not enable. In the process it has mention to format and proceed as the format click is not enable ,I am not able to proceed. Been going in circles with this. I tried as described in article. No luck. Saw comment about EFI so I tried that. It gave me an error in VBox on start.

Going well. Crapped out… have to start over. Multiple attempts. Now trying again without EFI enabled. Will erase and create a NEW drive in installer and see if that helps. Anyone smarter than me care to write an app so we can all simply just tell windows to install from the ISO on boot? I enter in the commands exactly as listed for disk3 in my case.

You need to unmount the disk, not eject it. And voila :D. The same installation, just crashes immediately after the windows logo on the Mac Pro 7,1. Here are my steps, in short:. Neither touchpad nor keyboard worked for me during win setup!

My mac apparently partitioned the disk as GPT, which Windows would not install on. How can I fix this so that windows will install? Thanks to this guide, many helpful comments, and specifically the additional guidance from Alessandro Morandi…. Has anyone achieved this? I have done everything as it says, and I substituted disk4 for, in my case, disk2, so the command is as follows:.

Any suggestions?? Your external disk probably connected again. Please read info on their site for other Windows versions. Use Bootcamp Assistant to download the Windows Support files you might need to click in the menu for Action. Install VirtualBox and Extension Pack. Start the Windows VM. Attach the USB flash drive and the external drive that you want Windows on. Copy the files from the flash drive to the VMs desktop.

Now copy the Windows Support files to the external drive. Close the VM and VirtualBox and reboot. As soon as you hear the startup sound hold the Alt-key until you see the options for startup. Choose the EFI disk. Now you have to install Windows. When finished, open the Windows Support folder and click setup to install the Bootcamp-drivers. When you have no sound please do not reinstall. It is unnecessary. Locate the AMD sound device in devicemanager.

Select update driver and select the driver folder on the Bootcamp USB stick. The driver will update. Select them too and search for drivers on the Bootcamp USB stick driver folder. Thank you for this! Everything installs fine, but after I close VirtualBox and restart with the option-key, I only have the one option to pick from— my mac hard drive. Do you know how to fix this? I find that if I unplug it and plug it back in then it shows up… however then when I select it and press enter it just loads to a black screen and does nothing….

In virtual box vm settings I checked EFI install. That worked for me after a day of just doing the do. Thanks for your procedure. I was having this problem, too.

The problem was that the WIN10 drive had remounted. I unmounted it and ran there terminal command again, which then worked. I tried this method but Bootcamp assistant will not open. I had the same error. I have followed the guide and the installation with the virtual machine went trough. I am on a mac pro 6,1 running Catalina. Any idea? This will disable Safe Boot.

Hello, after following the guide I went on and replaced the optical bay with the external ssd.. I am guessing it has something to do with the disk identifier?

Any guesses or ideas? I followed everything but I keep getting No bootable device — insert boot disk and press any key on first Windows boot. So after the restart I pick Windows and this thing pops up. Got no idea how to solve it. Everything works fine until the first restart from the external drive. Any ideas what could be the catch? Thanks in advance! Thanks to Tom Nelson for a great article. Parallel Desktop and other virtual machines will not work with the license he needs to use. I can boot into the disk on the Catalina machine, but he is not given the option on his Mojave machine.

Believe it or not, the likely cause is still not having enough free space. Back in the early years of Boot Camp, very little free space was required, on the order of 20 GB, though I think the default was set at 30 GB.

Over time, and with new versions of Boot Camp and Windows, the minimum free space requirements has gone up. Hi Thanks for a very well explained article, pity for a couple of things not so easy to understand:. Windows Cannot be installed to the disk. The selected disk has MBR partition table. Help I have done this three times followed all the directions and get stuck here.

I have a iMac running Catalina and the hard drive is a Samsung X5 Please someone help before I jump out my first floor window. Tried twice now with same result. I have tried to install Windows 10 on an external drive but the set up is still looking for Parallels Desktop which I tried some time ago. This was uninstalled months ago and setup. Is there a way of getting around this and can I rid the system of any trace of parallels desktop? I am running Catalina on the Mac and have an external drive formatted ready for use.

Windows support software is downloaded on a correctly formatted USB. If so, how did you get it to work please? First make sure your external HD is attached. Then find out what device node your HD is. Umount it with. The selected disk has a MBR partition table. Any fix for this? I got an error saying session could not be made or something like that right after I pressed start. Anyone got a solution? All good up until the restart point. Unlike many others, when I restart and hold option I do get the Windows option and can select it.

If I continue with the external drives unplugged, then it just gives an option to install bootcamp on the internal hard drive. Found a fix for the EFI boot problem. Fix starts at the time of Windows install.

Everything in the tutorial is good until getting to the Windows install through virtual box. Complete the windows setup prompts including creating a login, password, security, etc. Once completed shut down the virtual box Restart your Mac and hold the option key to select a startup disk You should be able to select EFI at this time and boot into windows note I had to restart times before it fully logged in.

Gave me a couple blue screens in the process. Act quickly: once booted and logged in use the bootcamp disk you created earlier to install the necessary drivers. Taking too long can create some very interesting issues with the display dimensions. Then hit any key at startup and it boots off of the virtual DVD drive. Then when you start the build it will kick you into the Shell.

Thank you so much, I had the same issue and I followed your guide and everything works perfectly smooth now. I see many people who cannot boot the EFI volume. Thanks Alessandro! This has made all the difference to me.

Getting closer and closer with each day. I read some comments that said that I should let the virtual machine restart and finish setting up on the machine. Drive is properly formatted, been trying for 5 hours and im starting to become desperate. Did someone get it to work on a MacBook Air?

It installs correctly and USB mouse works but not all the hardware. I did not try to install BootCamp native on the main SSD, if that is not working its a support case for apple.

I also was not able to get any other drivers. Installation succes but after i shutdown and on the macbook and hold the option button theres no other drive. Only macintosh hd. Please help me to fix. Thank you. Mac log will show and and box telling me that i need to reinstall the mac OS. Alternatively, if you have access to a Windows PC you could format the drives using it. There are errors Ive found and fixed with trial and error with the set up as written up, but it is quite dated after all.

I wonder if this would work with a partition in the internal drive. I have a SSD drive which is not the original Apple one it was too small but the new one does not support Bootcamp. I wonder if this procedure may help me install Windows 10 in a different partition of internal disk without using bootcamp. Can someone tell me the purpose of installing and running Windows from an external drive instead of internal drive? If I use an external drive for Windows instead, will Windows run quicker when connected to the Macbook?

You might not have a ton of space on your internal drive, or for me I have 2 computers and I only use Windows for specific software, so it makes sense to be able to carry it with me. If you have an external SSD, and your internal drive is a hard disk, I think it should be faster.

I tried with the thumb drive still connected, and got a busy error. Solution was to use disk utility and eject just the partition disk2s1 , leaving the drive disk2 alone. Even after reconnecting to my network it just boots into OS X. This worked finally. I have to try multiple times with different hits and tries. For my case, I am writing down what i did, if it helps anyone here.

For some reason, after downloading for 30 minutes and at an end, the Boot Camp Assistant gave error unable to save windows support software on selected drive. Downloaded it locally and then manually copied it to my USB external drive. Failed: When Creating bootcamp. Solution: Make sure the External Drive on whom you want to install windows is ejected and run the command in terminal again.

Failed: After bootcamp. Solution: After running command on terminal for rawdisk bootcamp. Failed: I was using some old Win10 ISO lying around and it was not booting on mac after all steps and installation. Failed: After completing all steps, installed bootcamp drivers on windows, rebooted couple of times, everything worked except I am unable to open Bootcamp control panel on windows 10 to configure touchpad click and sensitivity etc.

Solution: I was not able to find its solution so far. Maybe its because bootcamp expects the installation of windows to be on MAC drive rather then on external drive.

Any help in solving this problem will greatly help. This worked for me after trial and error with some of the updates on the procedure. However… after successfully making everything work I went greedy. I created a G: approx. Make sure External drive is ejected. I had same error. Mac mounted the drive automatically after running bootcamp. When i restart my mac, the external drive is not shown as an option to boot from — how can i fix this? Anyone know how to get the EFT partition in there?

There are many, many posts below in comments for that exact issue, all the way back to the earliest comment. I even left help about it a couple or few times. Good Luck! Be sure to follow this step posted above, as I missed it:. Hi, thanks for the tutorial! Does it change other parts of the process? Any help is appreciated! Hi, you have to write bootcamp. Great jobs. I followed the procedure and now windows 10 pro works perfectly in my iMac 21,5 late Thank you very much. T5 is good because it installs the smoothest to that SSD.

Here is what I do and what I suggest anyone do: I first read through all the comments below, all of them, right back to the time it was originally posted because the writer answers in many of those and added additional instructions or explanations. I printed off the original instructions and made notes on each section where comments by others mattered or changed it. Then I attempted to do it.

I ran into some things as most people will with so many different models and peripheral specs, but they were easily resolved by either the comments below, or a bit of trial and error. Three days is the longest the first install took, the second one was an hour and a half.

It does work. But I think you need to pay close attention to many comments and questions below and adjust the instructions accordingly. It is well worth that effort and extra time.

Please help. Did you ensure that the external drive with Windows has the EFT partition too? That is what is needed to see it as a boot selection.

I got everything completed, Windows is running on my external drive, but installing the drivers is where my issue lies. When I run the setup app from my USB the setup seems to be going fine, and then the screen goes black. When I move my cursor to wake up the screen its really dim. Tinkering around in the Startup Utility gives me the Bless Tool issue it is not a blessing.

It probably was the EFT boot drive. It said EFT Boot. Have you tried selecting that at boot to see what happens? Click through install as usual and click the custom install. Delete all your partitions. Click new. It should create 4 partitions including a EFI partition.

Continue install. Quit install before restarting. Restart mac. Hit options key. Your drive should show up. It takes about 3 hours but it worked perfectly. Bluetooth is no good. This is temporarily needed during setup. Sri, if you are performing the above 9to5mac. After step 8, this is where you split the main partition in two with a GB partition.

Then in step 22 this is where you choose the EFI boot partition and the Windows partition. The other partition you create can be used however… at least in theory! Do the Apple bootcamp drivers have to be downloaded to the flash drive every time you start over? When we use Vbox to install windows to the external drive we are no longer using the Apple BootCamp application.

I have been at this for over a week now and have repeated the steps over a dozen times. Well over. I had a similar problem on Macos 9. It was the same with the Bochs emulator.

Just straight Usb adapter cable from the back of iMac to the bare hard drive WD 40gb made in What am i doing wrong? Brigadier, which is basically a script that will fetch all drivers based on the current or given Mac model identifier.

As you can see in the output, the files got downloaded as a subfolder of brigadier-master as WindowsSupport. All that is left to do is to navigate to the folder using Finder, then to open WindowsSupport.

I typically first create a folder drivers to put these in:. Now that we have the USB drive fully prepared, there is one more step to go through before we can do the installation. That is to partition your hard drive or SSD in order to have a place to install Windows For this post, I will go for a dual boot where I will have Windows 11 and macOS next to each other on the same disk. For this we need to launch Disk Utility on the Mac where you want to install Windows You can use the pie chart on the left side to resize the second, newly added partition, to the size which you prefer.

Click continue when you get a warning that the system can become unresponsive for some time, while creating the partition and wait for the process to finish. This is related to a bug in Big Sur and, as you might see, Disk Utility did not create a new partition for our Windows install but rather added a container disk. After this, choose Partition and continue. As you can see, another bug in Disk Utility changes the name to only keep the first letter of the Volume name… Nevertheless, we are good to continue to the next step and finally get Windows 11 installed on our Mac.

As the final step, the actual installation of Windows 11, we need to let the Mac on which you want to install boot from the USB drive. This is done by holding down the Alt key on boot and to select the USB drive from the boot loader. If all goes well, you should see the bootloader after some time. Select EFI Boot here to start the installation. Initially, it will have the look and feel as the Windows 10 installer. Which makes sense as that is actually what we are launching:.

In the next screen, choose to accept the license and continue. Then choose for a custom install Windows only advanced. In the next screen, you need to select where to install Windows After some time, you should be presented with the following dialog:. Here you need to answer some basic questions like your location, keyboard layout, network, username, password and some more questions regarding location and diagnostic info. After going through all of these and waiting a bit more, you should end up with the Windows 11 desktop on your Mac:.

Although Windows 11 is now theoretically installed and working on your Mac, not everything is functioning just yet. Depending on your model of Mac and included drivers in Windows 11, some devices might not work yet. In my case for example, the wireless network adapter was not detected.

Exactly for this, we prepared those drivers with Brigadier. So we can simply navigate to our USB drive and launch Setup. After the reboot, most devices and at least your device to connect to the network should be working again. From here, we will launch Windows Update and make sure we have the latest updates and potential remaining missing drivers:.

After going through all the steps above, your Mac will boot by default in Windows In order to switch back to macOS temporarily , you can reboot and hold down the Alt key. Exactly the same as you did to boot from the USB drive when installing Windows Here click the lock to be able to make changes, select the OS which you want to boot as default and click restart:. HI, thx for this excelent HowTo. KBest regards, Arnold. It could be that the drivers for your SSD are missing in the Windows installer.

Hello once i got to the setup page for windows, my keyboard and trackpad stopped working. The Boot Camp installer shows up automatically after your Mac boots into Windows 10 for the first time. It contains critical drivers that you must install right away. Wait for the Boot Camp installer to finish installing all drivers.

Then, select Yes to restart your Mac. Just select the Globe icon on the system tray right-corner of the taskbar , pick an available Wi-Fi network, enter its password, and select Connect. Type Apple Software Update into the taskbar and select Open.

Check the boxes next to all available Apple software updates and select Install. Finally, you must install all Microsoft-verified drivers via Windows Update. Expand Driver updates. Then, check the boxes next to all driver updates and select Download and install. Select the More icon three dots on the download shelf and choose Show in Folder. Then, choose Extract. The extracted folder will show up automatically.

Running the batch script will upgrade Windows 10 to Windows Right-click the MediaCreationTool. The procedure may take up to an hour or more to complete. You can begin using it immediately since you installed all drivers and updates in Windows

 
 

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Windows applications have full access to multiple processors and multiple cores, accelerated 3D graphics, and high-speed ports and networking such as USB, Thunderbolt, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet, as well as drivers for audio, digital media cards, and Bluetooth. The Boot Camp support software for Windows that lets you use these features can be downloaded from Apple.

Use About This Mac to see exactly which Mac you have, then check this list to see if it supports Windows Parallels Desktop Parallels Desktop takes a decidedly different approach. It allows you to seamlessly run Mac and Windows applications side by side, using virtual machine technology. Parallels Desktop allows you to drag and drop files between Windows and Mac applications, and to launch Windows applications from your Mac dock. Here are its system requirements:. See all the supported guest Operating Systems.

Either way, click Upgrade Now. The download will start immediately, but may take while — for my MacBook Air, it estimated about an hour. Lire la suite. Currently, Mac users can run Windows on a Mac using a variety of different solutions but so far only Parallels allows you to install Windows 11 on a Mac due to Windows 11 requiring a physical TPM module. In Disk Utility, select your internal hard drive on the left panel, and click on Partition. Free Parallels Access subscription is offered along with the following Parallels Desktop for Mac licenses: perpetual licenses for Parallels Desktop for Mac 3 months subscriptions for Parallels Desktop for Mac for the period of the subscription Can you get Windows 10 for free?

Microsoft allows anyone to download Windows 10 for free and install it without a product key. It’ll keep working for the foreseeable future, with only a few small cosmetic restrictions.

And you can even pay to upgrade to a licensed copy of Windows 10 after you install it. Vous avez besoin d’un ordinateur Mac pour obtenir l’application car vous ne pouvez pas enregistrer votre ordinateur Windows Depending on your specific needs, you may want to chose Boot Camp for your Windows install or you may want to buy a virtualization program. They both have their own specific advantages and disadvantages when you compare them.

However, before you make the decision to purchase Windows and install it on your Mac, you’ll want to double check that your Mac is compatible with the Windows version you are planning to run.

Use this handy reference from Apple to determine which versions of Windows your Mac is compatible with. Once you have the appropriate version of Windows, you now need to decide whether you would like to install it with Boot Camp or Parallels.

Boot Camp makes a separate partition on your computer’s hard drive think of it as splitting your hard drive into two separate parts specifically for installing and running windows. Upon launching the Boot Camp Assistant app, you have the option to change how large this partition is.

Once Windows is installed in Boot Camp, every time you turn on your computer, you will be asked to select the operating system you would like to run.

If you decide to use Parallels Desktop, you first need to purchase both the Parallels program and your Windows operating system. The current version of Parallels Desktop is Parallels Once you purchase, download and install Parallels, you can open the program and install your Windows operating system within it. Much like Boot Camp, you decide how much space you want to allocate toward Windows, but unlike Boot Camp, you can easily change these storage options after installation.

Parallels runs like any other app on your Mac. When it is up and running, you see an entire Windows desktop within a window on your Mac you can obviously full screen the program as well.

This makes switching back and forth between systems incredibly easy. If you have an older computer with less than 4GB of RAM, you probably want to go with Boot Camp as you will notice decreased performance running Parallels. If you’re someone who wants to keep their Windows and OS X experiences entirely separate , Boot Camp is also the best option for you. Those looking to install Windows on their Mac as affordably as possible will also want to go the Boot Camp route.

If you want to run Windows and Mac apps together at the same time and be able to quickly switch back and forth between operating systems, you definitely want to go with Parallels or another virtualization software they all do virtually the same thing, no pun intended.

My personal recommendation is that if you have a computer with enough RAM and a processor to handle it, go with Parallels. I find it easier to use and the ability to run Windows apps in Coherence Mode is awesome – giving you the best of both operating system worlds.

 

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To download the latest update go to Parallels Desktop menu -> Check for Updates, Resolves an issue with importing a Boot Camp partition into a virtual. If you need Windows, you’ll be prompted to download and install Windows 11 or use your Boot Camp installation if you have an Intel-based Mac.