Is it possible to install Windows in MacBook Air?

I want to purchase a MacBook Air as I want to get experienced with Lion and just want to take feel of Mac. But yet I am expereicned with Windows only so will it be possible to install Windows (Dual Boot/Virtual Machine) in MacBook Air?

Yes, Windows7, through Apple's boot camp or a virtualization program like Paralells.

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How to install windows on macbook air

when i install windows 7 with bootcamp. my mba is restart and boot from windows but my mba keyboard is stuck. any key not working.
i have troubled how to install windows on macbook air 11 inches.

Hey komalsingh,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are having issues with your MacBook Air keyboard and BootCamp. The Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide provides some information that may be relevant:
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via page 8 of
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_ 10.8.pdf
Thanks,
Matt M.

How to install windows on macbook air, windows instalation cd required? can't use cd on macbook air

how to install windows on macbook air, windows instalation cd required? can't use cd on macbook air

Read the Boot Camp Installation Guides. Use a thumb drive or external optical drive.

Installing windows on Macbook Air without using Superdrive

I'm ready to switch from PC to MBA but there is a problem. I thought that I would be able to install windows to MBA through the remote disc feature. But I read in the apple's support page that I'll need to have the superdrive to install windows on MBA.
Is there a way to install windows without the need of a superdrive?
And if not, is there a possibility that the remote disc feature will allow the install of windows in MBA in the near future?
Thank you for reading my question!

Wondering if anyone can advise me on where I'm going wrong..
I've tried to install Windows XP Professional with service pack 2 (original disk) on my Macbook Air, with SuperDrive, but keep on getting this message after the first part of the installation is complete: "Disk error, Press any key to restart" (pressed any key but wouldn't do anything).
Here is what I have tried:
1. Opened Boot Camp and split the partition in half (even tried 32GB)
2. After this process is complete, Boot Camp asks to insert the Windows CD, did this and pressed OK.
3. The system rebooted in Windows Installer
4. Asks where I want to install Windows, I selected C:/ (BOOT CAMP) FAT32
5. Copies all of the Windows setup files
6. Then tells you the system will restart after 20 or so seconds, and if you want to restart press ENTER
7. The system restarts, but in Mac OSX. I've then tried the whole process again, and when it restarts I hold down the Option key.
8. A boot menu appears giving 3 options: 1. Mac OS, 2. Windows, 3. Windows CD
9. I select Windows CD (also have tried Windows)
10. Blank screen appears and says: Press any key to boot from CD....
11. I dont press anything then the message appears: "Disk error, Press any key to restart"
Can anyone help me to solve this please?
Thanks in advance.

Install windows on MacBook Air SSD?

Hello,
I'm interested in buying a 1.6 GHz (or 1.8 GHz) MacBook Air with a 64GB solid-state drive.
Is it possible to run Windows on such a machine using either Parallels or VMware Fusion?
I won't need to use iLife on this MacBook Air.
Thanks!
Mike

Yes, there is enough space on the drive. VMWare Fusion itself needs 140 MB of space. The VM with XP will need about 15 GB once you get all your software on there (Office, etc). There won't be masses of space left, but it will go. I would advice using Monolingual http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ to remove all unnecessary language packages from OS X. That alone will save you as much space as your XP install without additional software.
Windows runs very well indeed under WMWare Fusion on my MBA for all regular tasks (office apps, email, surfing, IM). What it obviously would not do so well would be graphic-intensive games or CPU-intensive tasks like video editing.
I would recommend Windows 2000 or XP as the guest OS. Definitely not Vista.
Regards,
Serious

Installing Windows 7 Macbook Air

Hey all,
I've been working on this for days, and I've been trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) onto my MacBook Air I bought last year. I'm having a problem with Bootcamp assistant though; whenever I tell it to create a windows 7 install disc, it says that I need a USB drive connected to the machine. I did this, reformatting a USB key as a windows partition, however when it was done, Bootcamp assistant just closed and left me in the dark as to what to do next. I have blank, rewritable DVD's, a windows 7 ISO image, pretty much everything I need, I just want to install it "normally", and without a USB drive. Any clues as to how to proceed?
P.S.: I did this on my MacBook pro last week, and it works fine. I didn't need to use a USB drive, I just burned the ISO image to a disc first with Disk Utility, then followed the manual and onscreen instructions.

There are a few others like this with pictures but can't remember where. Look for @jacktourist's post, it should be page 2.
In order to get around the Authentication/permissions I just right(option) clicked the plist file, select Copy "Info.Plist", clicked on desktop, right click Paste Item then opened the file (in TextEdit) and added my info to the top of the list, saved, then dragged the info.plist from the desktop backed to the Contents file, authenticated, then Replace, and all was ducky.
I has to be opened or saved as PlainText in order for it to work if using TextEdit if you get the "Can't save as rtf" error.
Should look similar to this. Some people have to add theirs to the bottom OR the top of the list in order for it to work.
<key>USBBootSupportedModels</key>
          <array>
                    <string>MP51</string>
                    <string>IM130</string>
                    <string>MM50</string>
                    <string>MP60</string>
                    <string>MB80</string>
                    <string>MBP90</string>
                    <string>MBA40</string>
          </array>
</dict>

Not possible to install windows on macbook pro

I have one Macbook pro 2011 late version . My boot camp assistant not showing option ” Create a Windows 7 install disk ” only showing download the latest windows support software from apple and remove windows partition. Please help me

If you have a built-in Optical drive, you will not get an option to create a USB.

Hi, I would like to know if is it possible to install windows on mac pro , because I need to have some application like SQL server and visual studio, and they could not be install on mac

hi, I would like to know if is it possible to install windows on macbook pro , because I need to have some application like SQL server and visual studio, and they could not be install on mac

Windows on a Mac

Is it possible to install windows 8.1 on macbook pro late 2013?

hi ,
Is it possible to install windows 8.1 on late 2013 macbook pro?
I have tried installing it twice but both of the time i got an error
Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed.

Maybe people have found a solution already but yesterday I managed to install Win 8.1 as a BootCamp on my new 15" retina MBP. I followed the steps John Guo described but with a couple of changes as his approach failed for me.
1. Make sure you are starting from a single partition.
2. Create the Windows install USB from the ISO and also allow BootCamp Assistant to create download the drivers - but untick the option to install windows.
3. Open Disk Utility and create a new partition and format as MS-DOS (FAT) rather than leave as free space.
4. Restart your Mac and use the option to boot into the Windows part of the USB not the EFI-boot.
5. Follow the install
6. When it comes to the drive selection select the FAT drive. Windows installer will say it cannot install here as it needs to be and NTFS partitiion (in previous atempts I always got the message to say the partitiion was using GUI partition table so could not install even though it was formatted to NTFS).
7. The format to NTFS should work fine and install proceed.
8. When the installer reboots the machine you will need to use the boot option to ensure you boot back into Windows.
9. Once installed the bootcamp driver install runs automatically and for me all drivers run fine even the NVIDIA, which I've seen some people mention having issues with.
I was inpressed with Windows automatically scaling the text to 200%, which meant it was using the full 2880x1800 resolution so everything was crisp but the windows and text was scaled nicely. I changed this 150% to give me some more real estate.
I'm guessing that by formatting the new partition as FAT it creates a MBP within the new drive that is writable by windows but I'm not a windows guru so this is a guess. But anyway, this work perfectly.
hope this helps some people.

Is it possible to install windows 7 on my macbook from a removable hard drive using boot camp? How would I do this?

Is it possible to install windows 7 on my macbook from a removable hard drive using boot camp?
How would I do this?

If you have Lion installed, and run Boot Camp, it will create the boot flash for you, just followe the tutorial on screen. As far as I remember, this was not possible prior to Lion.

Is it possible to install Windows 7 on Retina MacBook with a shared CD drive?

My school provides Windows 7 Ultimate upgrades to students
My friend installed Windows 7 normally even though it's technically an upgrade (burned the .img file to a DVD using Disk Utility and installed it through the Boot Camp Assistant tool in Snow Leopard)
I own a 2008 MacBook which has an optical drive
I own 1, 2 GB thumb drive and 1, 4 GB thumb drive
Is it possible to install Windows 7 through my Retina MacBook Pro through a shared CD connection with my 2008 MacBook?
I tried using the Boot Camp Assitant tool.
I burned the Windows 7 upgrade .img file to a DVD with Disk Utility just like my friend
I copied that DVD as a .cdr file to my Retina MacBook using the shared CD connection and Disk Utility, and changed the file extension to .iso
With the Boot Camp Assistant, I set-up my 4 GB thumb drive
When I get to the "Create a Partition for Windows" screen and I press install, I get the message "The installer disc could not be found".
The DVD is in my 2008 MacBook and I mounted it on the Retina MacBook. The 4 GB Windows set-up thumb drive is connected to the Retina MacBook.
I'm confused as to what I'm doing wrong.
Any help is appreciated.

You need the USB SuperDrive or an USB disk to install Windows on the computer

Exist a possibility to install windows xp in macbook pro 2011

exist a possibility to install windows xp in macbook pro 2011

Yes. Install XP using Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox.

HT4410 I have just installed Windows 7 64-bit full version Home Premium using Bootcamp and cannot get access to the internet. I installed on a Macbook Air Mid 2012 with Mountain Lion. Are there some drivers that are missing from the Windows 7

Dear Apple. I have just installed Windows 7 64-bit full version Home Premium using Bootcamp and cannot get access to the internet. I installed on a Macbook Air Mid 2012 with Mountain Lion. Are there some drivers that are missing from the Windows 7 bootcamp install download from Apple

It is a Total Misconception that the Support files are installed when you are installing Windows, even if the USB drive that holds them is inserted in the system when doing the Windows install.
You must always Run the Setup.exe files from the support files or run the drivers individually once Windows has finished installing and booted to the desktop.
Also you really need to run the Boot Camp Control Panel Applet and check for updates as not all the newest drivers for full function of all the hardware is included with the original support download. That download is basically a generic version to get the system working and without doing the updates not everything will work properly.

Is it possible to install Windows 7 on Satellite Pro 6100

Is it possible to install windows 7 on a Toshiba Satellite pro 6100 machine? I 'm currently using windows XP.
thanks.

Hi buddy,
Do you really think about Windows 7 installation on many years old Satellite Pro 6100???
In my opinion this will not work because its too old and not fast enough. Newest OS that is supported from Toshiba is Windows XP and this should be the best choice for this oldie.
So just be satisfied with Windows XP, its a good choice for older computers! :)

Is It Possible to Install Windows 7 on a GUID Partition Table Disk?

Is it possible to install Windows 7 on a GPT disk?
I created a RAID 0 array on my dual Xeon 5580 system and tried installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit RTM. When I got to the "Where do you want to install Windows" part I used shift-F10 to open up a command window, then I used diskpart to create a GPT with the following partitions:
Disk 0 Part 1 - 102 MB EFI System
Disk 0 Part 2 - 128 MB MSR
Disk 0 Part 3 - 500 MB Primary
Disk 0 Part 4 - 7446 GB Primary
But there was a message "Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 3 (show details)" - clicking on "show details" gave me "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."
What gives? I thought Windows Vista and beyond supported GPT.
The problem with MBR is that you can't have a file system larger than 2 TB.
Cheers, Eric

I am trying to install Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent edition onto system that has an ASUS M3A78 Pro motherboard with 8GB of memory & an AMD Phenom II x3 2.6GHz Socket AM3 Processor
(X3 710).
I realize that this system doesn't support UEFI but I have an Adaptec 3805 RAID controller in this system that does support the advanced format hard drives, so I would think I should
be OK there.
Attached to the RAID controller are 3 - 1.5TB SATA Hard Drives in a RAID 5 yeilding 2.72TB's of usable space.
I followed the following process to convert the array to GPT.
I booted to the Server 2008 R2 Ent installation DVD.
I select next at the language \ time & currency format \ Keyboard selection screen.
Then I select the 'repair your computer' option at the following screen.
I do not select the 'repair' (default) option, but instead select the radio button above it (I forget what that's labeled) working from memory here - which gives me the option to
launch a command prompt.
I launch diskaprt from that command prompt.
First I selected the disk
list disk (this displays the installed disks)
select disk 0
The I converted the disk to gpt
convert gpt
Then I created 200 MB EFI partition:
create partition
efi size=200
Then I created MSR
partition:
create partition
msr size=128
Then I created primary
partition:
create partition
primary
...and it took remaining
available space to itself.
I assigned drive
letter C to this new first "primary" partition
Assign letter=c
I confirmed the order is:
I confirmed the partition order is:
ESP > MSR > DATA Partition
After all of that I restart into the Windows installation and attempt to install by selecting the newly created primary partition and am presented with an error that states:
“Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 3. (Show details)”
and the details show:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the gpt partition style."
Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Is it possible to install Windows in MacBook Air?

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