Putting Windows 8 on MBP Early 2011 by upgrading

Hello! I am trying to put Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro using an ISO in Bootcamp, however the early 2011 models do not support this. I am able to install Windows 7 using this method though, and I was wondering if I can upgrade to Windows 8 from there without buying the install disc. I read that my model does support upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8, but do I need some sort of disc for that or is it just a quick download from the Internet or can I use a Windows 8 ISO file from there?
Thanks!

I guess my problem is that my dvds are not "bootable". Does anyone know how to make a dvd-r bootable on a macbook pro like mine? I guess when I burned the dvds with the ISOs on them, it simply copied the ISO over without being able to boot it. I also tried converting the .iso to a .cdr when burning but that didn't seem to work either. I've tried searching online but I can't find a way to do it that works for my hardware.

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Hello,
I've done an ample amount of Internet research to find an answer to this problem however nothing yet found is quite like this. I will start from the beginning.
I am traveling through Europe, and I normally live in California. When I arrived in Ireland my MBP early 2011 15 inch, began crashing constantly when I had several tabs open on Chrome and maybe one or two low CPU/Memory using applications, nothing the 8gb RAM &750gb hard drive can't normally handle. Thus I began trouble shooting. I ran disk utility once started up and repaired both disk and permissions. Still crashing. It didn't seem like it had anything to do with a kernel panic shut down, I never would receive the usual message indicating so. After that I did an SMC reset. It was still crashing. I then upgraded the OSX from 10.8 to 10.8.4 believing it could help. It did momentarily, but then crash again. (When it crashes screen goes black suddenly and upon pressing power button does a regular boot on my single partition). I decided attempting to repair using the Internet recovery option but it appeared my MBP had not yet have it installed, so I downloaded from Apple and began installing. Here I made a mistake, I unplugged the power source as it was restarting. When the gray screen and apple appeared, the loading bar shows up as it says it will when installing the update, but when the bar fully loads it crashes every time. I've tried starting in safe mode, which then loads but never goes further (I let it stand for two hours such as that and nothing). Then I decided to allow the MBP to fully charge overnight to give it time and charge. This morning the problem has stayed the same, even with power source plugged in. Please help I need this to work.
Thank you and please ask any questions!

Your constant crashing problem is probably some type of hardware fault which no update can fix. Doing the 10.8.4 update and then the firmware update just caused further problems. you need to take thr system to a apple store to be diagnosed and fixed if cost effective.

How large of a hard drive can i put in my Macbook Pro (early 2011)

how large of a hard drive can i put in my Macbook Pro (early 2011) and where can i get one?

You can find answers to both at OWC as well as installation tutorials. I think you will find 1 to 1.5 TBs are the largest.

HT3986 how to install any windows on macbook pro (early 2011) (os x mavericks)?

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how to install windows on a macbook pro
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVfRQ0YIDUI
http://www.gadgetreview.com/2013/05/how-to-install-windows-8-on-your-macbook-pro .html
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Im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5

im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5.
after making the photo slide show, i clicked share>export movie. after which i burned using toast. the file became a .mov. i tried playing it in my mac and it worked. my fear now is will it also play in a regular dvd?... i read from google that mov files won't run in dvd players. what format should i convert it to so it'll play in a dvd player. can you suggest a faster way i can burn my projects for it takes me almost an hour to export. im going to make 28 slideshows for my kids in school. *=( if i need to do this process 28 times, i may not be able to finish it on time. please suggest a software or an alternative as to how i should do this... m more comfortable using imovie than iphoto. thanks and i hope to hear from someone soon *=j

Thank you QuickTimeKirk...used toast to burn project... my project was in .mov, i tried to play it a dvd player, it did play... will try again tomorrow using another dvd player just to be sure it'll will really work with dvd players. thank you again for your reply *=)

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How much noise should the hard drive make on a MBP early 2011?

Had since May/June last year i5 13" and only since I applied all updates few weeks ago it seems to be louder than it was before?
It sounds like a fan but isn't... obviously. Right hand side of track pad, and covering it, in fact just touching it dampens it to barely audible. Is that normal or has something gone a bit weird? A constant fan noise, which isn't the fan is now there permanently.

How much noise should the hard drive make on a MBP early 2011?
None.
The machine should only make noise if the Superdrive is being used or the CPU's heavily used, going by my Early 2011 17".
It sounds like a fan but isn't... obviously. Right hand side of track pad, and covering it, in fact just touching it dampens it to barely audible. Is that normal or has something gone a bit weird? A constant fan noise, which isn't the fan is now there permanently.
It's possible it wasn't installed correctly and/or the case is slightly off so it's resonating the hard drive vibrations.
Make sure you have a internet connection (don't move) and reboot the machine holding the d key down like forever and Hardware Test will run.
Backup your data off the machine, if the hard drive dies under 1 year or three years with Applecare, then go get a new one. else you can replace it yourself with a better one and not void your warranty if you don't break anything doing so. Add more RAM while your at it.
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
As you know Mac's are made by hand by young Chinese women working 12 hour shifts performing the same function every 7 seconds for only $1.20 a hour. They live 7 to a box room and have to pay 70¢ a meal.
All in all I would say they are very tired, and it's possilbe a few defects made it to your machine.

Downloading ML over 80 min's......how long will this go on??? MBP early 2011 running 10.7.3

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I have a mbp early 2011 and mountain lion will not download

hi there,
i'm trying to update osx 10.7.4 and it just hangs on "waiting" for hours and does nothing, i went into the purchases section in app store and it says "An error has occured" in red letter, i click teh download button again and it does abosultley nothing.... and ideas would be greatly appreciated ps i have a 15" mbp early 2011 if that helps

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Can't install windows 8.1 on early 2011 MBP

Hey all,
I'm having problems installing Windows 8.1 on my Early 2011 MBP (MacBookPro8,2). When my superdrive died I installed an SSD for the boot drive and kept the original hard drive as a secondary drive. I used BCA (modified to support USB) to create a USB 2 Windows 8.1 install drive from an ISO I previously created. I also had it partition the hard drive. When it reboots I get the "no bootable device found" and blinking cursor issue. I've tried holding down option and choosing EFI, but i've picked up during the last week that installing through EFI on my MacBook Pro isn't possible. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?

I ended up coming across this last night:
http://malwaretips.com/threads/installing-windows-on-a-mac-with-a-damaged-superd rive.32474/
I am in the process of testing this out, but currently I'm stuck with an issue with winclone not expanding the image of the usb install disk to use all the space in the partition. However I did boot into the Windows installer and didn't run into the "couldn't find partition" , "no bootable disk", or "not an MBR" errors I've seen before.
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Can't re-install windows 7 64-bit on MBP early 2011 after Mavericks

I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro 13 inch which I used to have Mac OS X 10.8 and Windows 7 64-bit prior to installing Mavericks. After the update, my windows partition, which i resized to a larger space using Disk Utility and then a third party software on the windows side; was gone. It was shown in the disk utility as an unmountable partition.
After several failed attempts to get my files back, I decided to start from scratch. But when I went on Bootcamp 5, the "Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk" option was gone. After about searching for a way to re-enable that option by adding lines on Boot Camp Assistant's info.plist file, and signing it from terminal, the option was there again. It let me create a windows install disk from an ISO, and partition my harddrive. But when I reboot my computer and pressing alt, the usb stick doesnt appear as a bootable drive. So I Installed rEFIt. I could locate my usb drive from it but when I click on the corresponding button (it was something like boot windows from WININSTALL), it says bootmgr is missing.
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-Orkun

Hey there, it sounds like the trouble you are having is related to what is called 'non-standard boot camp partitioning' (resizing of the partition and all that). Do you notice that when launching Boot Camp Assistant you have the option to remove the current boot camp partition? If so I would say remove the partition and reinstall Windows using BCA (any other way of installing Windows on a Mac may cause you grief in the future).
Also I believe installing from an ISO is unsupported on some models - ultimately the difficulty you are having is related to partitioning. If Boot Camp *will not install* with the current partitioning the best thing to do would be to create a full Time Machine backup, repartition the disk from original install media (from 'current' to '1', reinstall the original OS and perform Mavericks upgrade via the Mac App Store, migrate from Time Machine backup and reattempt running Boot Camp Assistant (which will work this time). Maybe someone else has a quicker/hackier method but you can always expect difficulty with OS upgrade installs and Boot Camp while the partitioning is in the current state.

Windows 8 Boot Camp on MBP early 2011

Hello,
I'm on a MacBook Pro 13" early 2011, and I've just upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3, which should support Windows 8 via the new Boot Camp software. However, I've tried to download the new Boot Camp drivers using "Boot Camp Assistant" but the utility says that on my Mac only Windows 7 is supported. Is this true, or there is a work-around to upgrade the existing Boot Camp utility?

I also have a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2011, and have upgraded to OS X 10.8.3. I attempted to install Windows 8 via the "Boot Camp Assistant" utility application, and received the "Your Mac only supports Windows 7" message when attempting to "download the latest Window support software from Apple."
According to this Apple support article, the early 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro should be capable of running Windows 8 (64-bit) with Boot Camp 5: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634
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MBP early 2011 battery life

I have the early 2011 release of the 17" MBP (8gig ram, 2.2ghz quad i7, 500 gig harddrive) and it seems like the battery life has just been cut inhalf. It lasts me about 3 and a half hours from just general use. Is my battery faulty? Really appriciate any feed back

That battery looks pretty good, capacity is really strong for so many charge cycles, but the voltage looks low, would expect it to be in the 11.5 to 12.5 volt range and you are showing 11.27 volts. A little low but not critical.
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Want to install Windows 8 on my early 2011 13" MacBook Pro?

Hi guys,
I am planning to install Windows 8 but unsure of a few things, particularly with the version I have to get.
I have an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro, running 10.9.3 and it has never had any previous versions of Windows on it before. Can I simply get the "upgrade" version (which is cheaper), or do I have to get the "full" version to do this? I can't seem to find the "full" version anywhere on the Microsoft website by the way...
I am looking at this: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msaus/en_AU/pdp/Windows-8-Pro-Upgrade---Stud ent-Offer/productID.272005100 (student price upgrade version)
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You can only install the upgrade version if you already have a full version of Windows installed. In your case you will need to purchase the full version.
Buy it on disk.

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