I want to install windows 8 without bootcamp ...

So here is what I did step by step:
1. make partition via disk utility and format using MS-DOS / FAT
2. Insert windows cd and restart
3. Hold C when it's booting up
4. It goes right away to windows installation, and when I see my partition, I choose the partition i made from disk utility
5. On the "where do you want to install Windows" menu (with many partitions on the screen where you supposed to choose which one to install windows), I can't install windows yet, so I click Drive Options, then Format, but after I format the partition, I still can't click Next
Some said that I need to make the partition via disk utlity using NTFS, but I still can't install
It stucks on the "where do you want to install Windows" menu
Is it because the windows 8?
Or is it because Mountain Lion won't let you do this anymore?
All I want is to make 3 partitions since bootcamp limit only 2 partitions max.
I did successfully install windows 8 without any issue using bootcamp, but then again it was only 2 partitions.
I use VMware, and it takes your memory like crazy
*sigh*

I use VMware now, but it surely eats A LOT of memory
I can see that free memory is around 2GB, and after I hit VMware to run windows, memory left is around 30MB
Maybe I should buy another memory just for the sake of VMware?
I guess not, it's not worth it.
I really wish I can create triple partition like people taught out there on google.
But I can't make it happen

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That's what Apple proposes in here Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows
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Install 7. Don't bother with applying drivers and such, just reboot again from DVD and install again, it will see the existing system and this time activation will be possible.
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Step 2 put the super drive in its place
Step 3 install os x lion in an external drive (don't use your primary drive) you only need recovery HD
Step 4 run recovery HD from external drive
Step 5 press the apple logo and restart system
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Step 7 there should be a windows cd and a EFI cd
Step 8 click the windows cd
Step 9 install windows 7
Step 10 install the apple drivers
Step 11 put the clean windows 7 drive in the optical bay
Step 12 put the primary drive in the primary sata slot
Turn on and enjoy
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OrangeMarlin wrote:
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a junky Windows PC, and save a few bucks to pay off your credit cards that get tapped by the next malware that hits?
Oh, I see, Windows users now realize that the MacBook Pro is a superior piece of technology, but they need their Windows on it. I can accept that.
Actually I just bought a new Dell Latitude E6420. Installed 8GB of RAM, a 120GB Intel SSD, moved the 750GB Seagate drive I originally installed to a optical by caddy. Nothing junky about that PC.
But if you read this forum you will see a ton of posts about junky Apple hardware.
There is nothing superior about the Mac. It is a computer. It reads and writes 1s & 0s. It is now based on the i386 (x86) plateform/architecture.
Just to let you know both PCs and Macs use the Exact Same Hardware. The 8GBs of RAM and the 750GB HDD I installed in the Dell were originally in a 13" MBP I had and returned.
About the only real difference between the 2 is the HDD format and file structure. Windows uses a registry, which is really a grouping of 3 different files. Mac's use .plist files which can number in the 10s to god knows what number. Apps on a Mac are not just one file or one group of files all in the same directory, kind of like Windows where files of different types get put in different folder all over the hard drive and OS structure.
Ok I'm done with that subject.
I have not had any viruses or trojans or whatever on any of my PCs for over a decade and I haven't used any anti virus software for over 3 years.
I like the Mac for somethings and I like PCs, I'm not a Mac or a PC snob. But I do have Windows installed on my Mac computers and if I could, easily, I would have OS X installed on my Windows based hardware. But Steve Jobs has seen fit to make that almost impossible. If he hadn't no one would buy his hardware.

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I have just bought a new 21.5 inch iMac preinstalled with SL and have the Install DVD for 10.6.7.
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Think I also need a USB wired mouse as wireless is disabled when installing windows.
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Sorry I didn't respond sooner....Hurricane Irene knocked out all our power
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And yes, there is no requirement to be running SL. BC 3.0 also came out before Windows 7 (trying to jump the gun? pre-mature? wanted to get SL out the door before Windows). Newer SL DVDs usually also have later version of "3.0" Shame that 3.0 has to be installed and then updated instead of just a logical download/install of 3.2 (maybe put in any OS X DVD to verify you have it?).
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