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Without further ado, here’s how to set up Boot Camp and install Windows. Boot Camp is also better at running Windows software than virtual machines like Parallels or VMWare Fusion, which are programs that simultaneously run Windows inside Mac’s operating system. For instance, PC MMOs such as Star Trek Online, Tera, and Star Wars: The Old Republic only run on Windows. Probably the most common reason Mac owners use Boot Camp is to play Windows-only games. With the press of a button, you can switch between Mac and Windows every time your computer turns on. That’s an experiment for another day.So you have a Mac but also want to run Windows? You’re in luck: shortly after the first Intel-based Macs arrived on the market in 2009, Apple released a tool called Boot Camp, which lets Mac owners install and start their machines natively in Microsoft Windows.

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I’m confident this Windows 7 installation could be upgraded to Windows 10 since it’s on its own disk. For this old Mac Pro, I only needed to install the Windows Bluetooth, ATI video, Realtek sound and Intel chipset drivers. Here’s the link applicable to this mid 2010 Mac Pro: Boot Camp Support Software. For more info, check the Compatibility Tables. When the Windows installation is complete, you can download the Boot Camp Windows support software manually. When finished, re-attach the other drives, no issues. Power down the machine, disconnect any other drives attached to the system, reboot to the Windows 7 DVD again, and you’ll be able to complete the installation. You can now format that partition NTFS and select it as your Windows 7 installation destination.īut wait… after clicking Next, I immediately got the message “Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Click Refresh on the Windows installer to see your changes. The rest of the disk will be unused space. You’ll have a 2.2TB partition which is the maximum size for MBR. The result is the selected drive will be erased and formatted MBR. Select disk n (where n is the disk you want to install Windows 7 to)

Format the drive intended for Windows MBR using the Windows command line.

When Windows Setup asks you “Where do you want to install Windows”, press Shift F10 to get a command prompt.

You need to boot the Windows 7 installer from your internal DVD drive. Note: Bootable Windows 7 USB sticks and external USB optical drives will not work on this old Mac.

Boot to the Windows 7 installation DVD.

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Formatted the disk intended for Windows 7 as Mac OS extended (Journaled) with Guid Partition Map in Apple’s Disk Utility for the fun of it.

It would have been much easier with a 2TB drive. There’s no shortage of blog post hacks out there describing methods of how to install Windows 7 on old Mac Pros. If you attempt to format a 3TB drive MBR using the Apple Disk Utility in High Sierra, you’ll get the error message “The disk is too large to be supported by the given partition scheme. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style”.

If you formatted it with Apple’s Disk Utility, you might get the following error message when trying to install Windows: “Windows cannot be installed to this disk. To install Windows 7 on this old Mac Pro, the drive needs to be formatted with a MBR partition scheme. The third 3TB drive was to be added to the macOS installation as a data disk. The goal was to install Windows 7 on the second 3TB drive. We did a fresh install of High Sierra on the first 3TB drive.

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We recently had a Mid 2010 Mac Pro in the shop which had three 3TB hard drives.