It’s no secret that I love Apple laptops but I much prefer Vista over OS X. I’ve upgraded to a MacBook Pro and wanted to see if I could get Windows Vista to install on my old 13″ MacBook without using BootCamp.
The following method worked for me using a Windows Vista DVD with Service Pack 1. I did a fresh install of OS X 10.4 Tiger before doing this. (Sorry the pictures are wonky – I’m not great at shooting screen shots with my camera.)
Your mileage may vary. Proceed at your own risk:
Insert Mac OS X Install Disc (this part should work with OS X 10.4 Tiger or OS X 10.5 Leopard discs).
Reboot. Hold down C key during reboot.
Do not start the install. From the Utilities menu, select Disk Utility.
Select your hard drive from the list and then click the Partition tab / button.
Click the Options button and select “Master Boot Record” as the partition scheme. Click OK.
From the Volume Scheme drop down list, select 1 Partition. Select MS-DOS (FAT) for the format (not that this matters since you will reformat it using NTFS during the Vista install).
Click Apply.
Reboot. Hold down the Alt/Option key turning reboot.
When the graphical boot menu appears, hit the eject button. Take out the OS X Install Disc and put in your Vista with SP1 install disc.
If a Windows DVD icon does not appear, reboot and hold down Alt/Option during reboot.
When the Windows DVD icon appears in the graphical boot menu, hit Enter to select it.
Proceed through the Vista install.
When you come to screen titled “Where do you want to install Windows,” select Disk 0.
There will be a message saying that you cannot install to that disk because it is not formatted using NTFS.
Click the Drive Options link. Click the Format link. Click OK in the confirmation dialog.
Now select Disk 0 and click Next.
The Vista installation should proceed as normal.
Once Windows is installed and loaded, insert an OS X 10.5 Leopard disc and install the Windows drivers from Apple. If you do not have access to an OS X 10.5 Leopard disc, your mileage may vary in getting all the hardware to work. (Note: I used the Leopard disc from my MacBook Pro to install the drivers for on the old MacBook. Worked like a charm.)
If this works for you, please leave me a comment here. If it didn’t work, please leave a comment describing what happened.
Hi Derek, have you had a chance to try this with Windows 8 yet?
Its Working..thanks alot
Genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you please suggest, how to do it without the CD Drive? I use macbook air, but I don’t like macOS. I want to full install either windows 10 or Linux. Please help.
Just use a program like etcher to create boot USBs for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows
Hi,
Do you think it will work for an old iMac (2006) installing Windows 7 32bit?
I bet it will
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