Install Windows ten on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant

With Boot Army camp, y'all tin install Microsoft Windows 10 on your Mac, so switch betwixt macOS and Windows when restarting your Mac.

What you demand to install Windows 10 on Mac

  • iMac introduced in 2012 or later on1
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in 2013 or later

Thelatest macOS updates, which can include updates to Boot Camp Banana. Yous volition use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows x.

64GB or more thangratis storage space on your Mac startup disk:

  • Your Mac can have every bit little equally 64GB of free storage space, but at to the lowest degree 128GB of free storage space provides the all-time experience. Automatic Windows updates require that much infinite or more.
  • If you take an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of memory (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least every bit much gratuitous storage space equally your Mac has memory.2

An external USB flash drive with a storage capacity of 16GB or more, unless yous're using aMac that doesn't need a flash drive to install Windows.

A 64-bit version of Windows ten Home or Windows 10 Pro on a disk image (ISO) or other installation media. If installing Windows on your Mac for the first time, this must be a full version of Windows, not an upgrade.

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How to install Windows 10 on Mac

To install Windows, use Boot Campsite Assistant, which is included with your Mac.

1. Check your Secure Kicking setting

Learn how to check your Secure Boot setting. The default Secure Boot setting is Full Security. If y'all inverse it to No Security, change information technology back to Full Security before installing Windows. Subsequently installing Windows, you lot can use any Secure Boot setting without affecting your ability to start up from Windows.

2. Utilize Boot Campsite Banana to create a Windows partition

Open Boot Camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications binder. Follow the onscreen instructions.

  • If you're asked to insert a USB bulldoze, plug your USB flash drive into your Mac. Boot Army camp Assistant volition utilize it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation.
  • When Boot Camp Assistant asks y'all to fix the size of the Windows partition, retrieve the minimum storage-space requirements in the previous section. Set a partition size that meets your needs, because you can't change its size afterward.

3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) segmentation

When Kicking Camp Assistant finishes, your Mac restarts to the Windows installer. If the installer asks where to install Windows, select the BOOTCAMP division and click Format. In well-nigh cases, the installer selects and formats the BOOTCAMP sectionalisation automatically.

4. Install Windows

Unplug any external devices that aren't necessary during installation. And then click Next and follow the onscreen instructions to begin installing Windows.

5. Apply the Boot Camp installer in Windows

Subsequently Windows installation completes, your Mac starts up in Windows and opens a "Welcome to the Boot Camp installer" window. Follow the onscreen instructions to install Boot Military camp and Windows back up software (drivers). You will be asked to restart when done.

  • If the Kicking Army camp installer never opens,open the Kick Camp installer manually and use information technology to complete Boot Camp installation.
  • If you accept an external display continued to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the brandish will exist bare (black, grayness, or blueish) for up to 2 minutes during installation.

How to switch between Windows and macOS

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If you have one of these Intel-based Mac models using OS X El Capitan or later, you don't demand a USB flash drive to install Windows:

  • iMac introduced in 2015 or subsequently
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in belatedly 2013 or later

i. If you lot're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Belatedly 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) with a 3TB hard drive and macOS Mojave or later, learn about an alarm you might see during installation.

2. For case, if your Mac has 128GB of memory, its startup deejay must take at to the lowest degree 128GB of storage space available for Windows. To see how much memory your Mac has, cull Apple menu  > Virtually This Mac. To see how much storage space is available, click the Storage tab in the same window.

iii. These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives as an option. Apple recommends 256GB or larger difficult drives then that you can create a Boot Camp partitioning of at to the lowest degree 128GB.

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