Install Windows 8 In Bootcamp

hey everyone today I'm going to show you

how you can run Windows 8 on your Mac

using boot

camp now I believe that boot camp is the

best way to run Windows on your Mac and

especially Windows 8 uh people have been

trying Windows 8 in Virtual machines and

while it does work sometimes other times

it just doesn't work at all so I have my

Mac partition with Windows 8 I'm going

to show you how you can do that too so

what you're going to need is first off

you're going to need the windows

developer preview ISO file and if you go

to dev. windows.com and then you click

get

started you'll see different downloads

here now for this demo I chose the

32-bit Edition the 64bit one will also

work but I just chose the 32-bit cuz

it's a little bit lighter and the link

to this website will also will be right

below the video if you want it now you

should make sure that your Mac has at

least 2 GB of RAM for this and probably

about 20 GB of hard drive space at least

to run Windows 8 and the only other

requirement is that you're going to need

a DVD drive so you MacBook Air owners or

Mac Mini owners might not be the best

thing for you for you I've heard that

you can use a USB flash drive and

install Windows 8 that way but that's

not something I'm going to go into

because Boot Camp doesn't really play

nicely with USB flash drives so assuming

you've downloaded your ISO file and

here's mine right here the 32-bit

Edition what you're going to do is

you're going to pop in a blank DVD that

you need to burn that file onto so I'm

going to push the DVD in now and you

should see a little menu pop up on the

screen within just a few seconds here

and it'll give you a little list of

options that you can choose from so from

here I'm just going to go in this menu

and select open dis

utility and hit okay so now here's this

utility and the first thing I'm going to

do is I'm going to click on super drive

and here is my internal dis drive so now

I will click on Burn now I've already

burned a DVD of Windows 8 so I'm not

going to burn one again because I

already tried out this process to make

sure it worked but basically what you'll

do is you'll select this and you click

burn and now it's going

to give you a couple different options

it's best to just leave them all alone

and then you'll Click Burn and this will

take roughly about 20 minutes at least

it did for me with the 32-bit Edition

and once that's done you can quit Disk

Utility now from here what you're going

to want to do is open up boot camp

assistant so I'm going to open up a new

finder window and go into my

applications folder and scroll down to

utilities and from here I'm going to

find boot camp assistant right in the

utilities folder and I'm going to open

this up now here's something important

that you should really do before you set

up any type of Windows installation on

your Mac you're going to want to back up

your hard drive now this is something I

should be doing but I actually don't

have a back up of my hard drive right

now so don't follow my path this time

make sure you back up your hard drive

because something could go wrong during

the installation and partition process

and you could end up with a very sad Mac

so from here you're going to want to

click continue and now you're going to

see two different options and you can

either download Windows support software

for this Mac or you can select that you

already have the support software and

I'm going to select that I already have

it even though I don't this is because a

lot of the Windows support software does

not work with Windows 8 yet so it's

pretty much pointless now I did

experience a couple issues that might

have been resolved by downloading the

Windows support software um one of them

was actually a pretty big one that I

wasn't able to scroll with my magic

mouse using Windows 8 now I would assume

this would be fixed with the support

software but it's not something I really

want to try in case it gets messed up

I'm going to click continue and if

you're just installing Windows for the

first time you won't see the screen but

since I already have it installed on a

partition uh it just gives me two

options I'm just going to hit continue

and on this screen what you'll see is a

slider and from here you'll be able to

adjust the size of your Mac OS 10 volume

and your windows volume now since I

already have a partition the only thing

I can do is restore uh but as you can

see with the screenshot on the screen

you'll be able to drag the slider and

select how big of a partition you want

for your Windows installation and now

after you've selected the size that you

want for your Windows installation

you're going to click partition and

after that you're going to want to

select start Windows installation at

this point your computer will shut down

and restart into the Windows setup

process now you can see that after

you've clicked start installation your

Mac is going to restart and you're going

to see loading files on your screen and

this is how the Windows 8 installation

process begins so at this point you're

going to see the install Windows screen

and you're just going to follow the

instructions it gives you so I'm going

to hit next and install

now now you'll have to accept to the

license terms click next and I'm going

to select custom which is Advanced

because I want to install a new copy of

Windows now you're going to see all

different types of partitions here and

you're going to select dis zero

partition now this may not say partition

4 uh but it's the one that says boot

camp now once you've selected your boot

cam drive it's going to say it cannot be

installed so you're going to have to

click on driver options and then from

there you have to click format then

you're going to have to click okay and

then you can click next now from here

it'll install Windows 8 and this will

probably take at least a half an hour so

just sit back and relax so as the

installation is completing your Mac will

restart two times and then you should

see this screen from here and I'm going

to go through the setup process and then

we'll see what happens next so after you

complete the setup process you should

see something similar to this and this

is your Windows start screen so there

you go you can see Windows 8 running on

my iMac here and I can say It's

relatively fast but you can try it out

for

yourself on your own Mac now with boot

camp and a simple Windows installation

DVD you may run into some problems just

because it is pre-release software so

once again make sure you backup um I'm

fortunate to not have any problems since

uh I don't have a backup but that's

really about it so there you go that's

how to install Windows 8 on your Mac

with boot camp if you have anything that

you'd like to see me do a how to on make

sure to send me an email I hope you

found this video useful thank you for

watching