

Make sure the Windows 7 USB stick is inserted into the Mac. If you want to expand the partition later, you’ll have to completely reinstall Windows, so choose carefully. GB and a single game, such as Batman, takes around 1. If you’re planning on installing more than one game, you’ll want to give the Windows side of things a fairly large space. Like a Catholic school dormitory, the Windows and Mac OSes can’t cohabitate, so you’ll have to partition a section of the hard drive for Windows. Copy these to a second USB stick (it can be 1. Using the Boot Camp Manager, it will download the drivers as a single file. In order for all the hardware to work correctly-such as getting the full resolution of the Retina Display-Apple provides drivers for everything from the Wi- Fi card to the touchpad to the graphics card. In the Boot Camp Manager, select the option to copy it to a USB drive. However, you simply can’t drag and drop it you have to create a bootable image. You’ll want to save the image as a CD/DVD (. Book Pro, and using the Disk Utility app, created an image of our Windows 7 installation DVD.

We attached an external DVD drive to our Mac. The Boot Camp Manager utility lays out the three major steps involved in installing Windows 7, and guides you through the process.Ĭreate a Windows ISOHere’s where not having an optical drive will trip you up.

Follow along as we detail the steps for you. Book Pro with Retina Display, currently, there’s no other option than to install Microsoft’s operating system. But for those who want to play PC games such as “Batman: Arkham City” in full 2. Book Pro With Retina Display Heresy, we know.
