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Chapter 4: using your dual-boot Mac, Windows side and Win key + x is your quick access to everything 15. after logging into Windows for the first time there are four things to take care of and should be taken care of in the order presented: • Check if a restore point was created (this will...

Chapter 3: the home stretch with setting up windows and boot camp on windows 9. follow the steps of entering your product key, selecting the version of Windows to install and then you will hit a wall when it comes to choosing the partition that Boot Camp was supposed to have completed for you...

Chapter 2: using boot camp 1. modify boot camp to include iMac mid-2010 \\ painless and see notes for the instructions 2. connect USB with ISO to mac and copy the ISO to the desktop 3. insert the other USB drive for Windows installation 4. run boot camp and select all 3 options: a...

Chapter 1: create Windows 8.1 x64 ISO 1. find right Windows 8.1 ISO and make sure it's for x64, x86 will not work \\ i wasted time downloading and creating the wrong one and then having to do it over for the right one 2. create iso \\ takes time Chapter 1 Notes: • Create installation media...

Chapter 0: install OS X Yosemite in iMac with wiped drives \\ skip if your Mac is already in working order 1. tried all other means to restore (there are 4 different methods), and what worked was creating the OS X installer from a separate Mac 2. created by downloading Yosemite update from...

How Long Will It Take? - With long breaks in between, a weekend depending on your internet connection and speed of the drives used and if you don't run into bumps in the road along the way....if you set out a day to do it, it can be done in about a day What You Will Need: - A fast internet...

As a casual Windows user since the late 90's (my family did have a Macintosh "PowerPC" prior) and as an more aware Windows user since XP/Vista and as an enthusiast Windows user since 7; this process of installing Windows on a Mac via Boot Camp was quite the experience. I wanted to fully utilize...

The thread title should be renamed to: "Save A Couple of Bucks and Restore Your Mac with the Built-in Terminal createinstallmedia to Create An OS X Installer USB Drive from Another Mac that Has Yosemite Installed" (if after the internal recovery is corrupted, if Internet Recovery is shot and if...

turns out it was the OS X install usb holding up the load screen and/or the keyboard & mouse plugged into the wrong usb slot. if you need to access any of the boot commands from the keyboard and there's the grey screen hang, shut off power and then plug the keyboard into another slot; and then...

can anyone post some advice for this? this is the 2nd re-install attempt via Internet Recovery as the 1st download and install completed but the iMac had serious sbbod and lag when opening basically anything. i figured it was a bad install file from WiFi. to prep for the 2nd re-install, i...

thanks for the responses! i'm a mac noob and after receiving the desktop, turns out that it made the cut for Internet Recovery and proceeded to install Yosemite! So I canceled my order for the retail disc. The re-install off WiFi took a good number of hours (to overnight) to download and...

Please share with me your tips on installing an Apple Store retail copy of OS X Snow Leopard on a 2010 iMac; the iMac will come with the storage wiped clean. The storage options are a 1TB HDD and a 250GB SSD and I plan on keeping OS X on 500GB of the HDD and installing Windows on the SSD and...