He installs Windows 7 in your Mac.

Continuing with the line of these articles today we are going to see how to install Windows 7 in our Macs.

Windows 7, although many try to make us think the opposite does not stop being one more Windows therefore the process of installation, safe any detail is not distant a lot of form that I explained to you for the versions XP and Sight. If you have not read them I invite you to to give you a return for the post.

Well, let's see in what it differs. When the last version of Boot Camp appeared, together with Snow Leopard Windows 7 was still not free, so that it is not a 100 % compatible with him. To make it compatible we must unburden ourselves an update of the page of Apple, you can find it here. In this update we find a new bundle of drivers and utilities that will do that your Windows 7 works perfectly with the whole hardware.

Now I am going to speak to you about some well-known problems that appear (or they can appear) during the installation of Windows 7 in our teams:

1. - Symptoms

On having updated Windows, Dress Windows 7 he returns us an error 0×80070005 ″. This can happen when the fitter of Windows 7 tries to write in a volume Macintosh of only reading.

According to the proper Apple the steps that we must continue to solve it are the following ones:

Resolution

Before updating of Windows Sight to Windows 7, Windows 7 uses the application Boot Camp for the fitter of the update. This application dismantles safely the volume Macintosh of only reading in Microsoft Windows Dress.

1. It unloads the file Apple_Win7_Upgrade.zip.
2. Double bundle clic in the file.zip to decompress it.
3. To initiate the application, double bundle clic in Apple_Win7_Upgrade_Utility.exe.
4. When the message appears “A program without identifying he wants to gain access to the computer”, click in Allowing.
5. When the message appears “Application Boot Camp for the installation of the update Windows 7 ″, click in Accepting.
6. When the message appears “The preparation has been satisfactory”, click in Accepting to begin the computer again.
7. After beginning the computer again, cost that the volume Macintosh has been eliminated clicking in Beginning> Team. Now, the volume Macintosh should not be visible.

It carries out the update of Windows Dress Windows 7.

2.-Symptoms

It is possible that when you install Microsoft Windows 7 in an iMac (27 inches, ends of 2009) by means of Boot Camp, a black screen appears. This can happen because the fitter of Windows 7 does not include the controlers of graphs or of Bluetooth necessary for your Mac.

Resolution

It continues the steps that are described next to unload the necessary controlers and to install Windows 7 in your iMac:

1. Move up to the low part of this page and click in License of Software to accept the license.
2. On the following screen, move up to the low part of the page and click in Accepting and unloading if you are the terms.
3. If you are updating from Windows Sight, you will need to use the application Apple_Win7_Upgrade_Utility before beginning the installation of the update.
4. The files are compressed into a file.zip. Double bundle clic to open it.
5. It connects your device of storage USB or introduces your card SD. It notices: you must connect your device of storage USB straight in the rear part of the iMac and neither not to a keyboard nor to concentrating other that does not perform high potency.
6. If the device USB or the card SD has not been formatted like MS TWO (FAT), or if you are not sure of it, continue the steps A to M that appear next; otherwise, it sees to the step 7. Important: these steps will erase the contents of the device of storage USB or of the card SD; it realizes a safety copy of the important files that are in the same ones on an additional disc.
   1. It selects to Go> Utilities.
   2. It opens the Utility of Discs.
   3. Utility of Discs selects the unit USB in the left part of the window.
   4. Click in the eyelash Divisions.
   5. Click in Options.
   6. Click in “Main record of starter”.
   7. Click in OK.
   8. Click in the card Format.
   9. It selects MS TWO (FAT).
   10. It assigns a name to the disc MBRFAT.
   11. Click in Applying.
   12. Click in Division.
   13. When it finishes the process, salt of the Utility of Discs.
7. It drags “Controlers“ and “AutoUnattended.xml“ from the folder iMac_Late_2009_Win7_Drivers, that opened in the step 4 to himself, to the icon of the device USB or of the card SD to copy the files in the same ones. Do not copy them in any subfolder.
8. The assistant of Boot Camp initiates.
9. Select the size of the division and click in Division.
10. When the division, bundle has been created clic in Initiating the installation and it inserts the DVD of installation of Windows 7. The computer will be begun again.
11. It continues the screen instructions for the installation of Windows. If it is a question of a new installation, do not forget to use the fitter of Windows to format the division BOOTCAMP. You will have to click in Options of unit (Forward position) to see the formats selection.
12. The computer will be begun again in several occasions during the installation process. The screen can turn out to be black during some minutes while the fitter of Windows locates the controlers in the device of storage USB. During this process you must not extinguish the computer.
13. In some moment there will appear a screen that it you will request to establish a user's account in Windows 7.

If the screen remains in black after several minutes, it means that the computer is extinguished (keep the starter button touched during a few seconds), next, 6 returns to the step. Make sure of the fact that the device USB or the card SD are formatted like main starter Record, FAT, and that AutoUnattend.xml and the controlers find in the level root of the directory.

These are the problems that I could have compiled of the Apple page, if someone knows some problem more do not hesitate to ask about them that I hope we can find solution to them.

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