Install Windows x on your Mac with Kicking Army camp Assistant

With Kicking Camp, yous can install Microsoft Windows 10 on your Mac, then switch between macOS and Windows when restarting your Mac.

What you lot demand to install Windows 10 on Mac

  • MacBook introduced in 2015 or afterward
  • MacBook Air introduced in 2012 or later on
  • MacBook Pro introduced in 2012 or later
  • Mac mini introduced in 2012 or afterwards
  • iMac introduced in 2012 or subsequently1
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in 2013 or later

The latest macOS updates, which can include updates to Boot Army camp Assistant. Y'all volition use Kick Camp Assistant to install Windows x.

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

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

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

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

  • If your re-create of Windows came on a USB flash drive, or yous have a Windows product key and no installation disc, download a Windows 10 disk image from Microsoft.
  • If your re-create of Windows came on a DVD, you lot might need to create a deejay image of that DVD.

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How to install Windows 10 on Mac

To install Windows, employ Boot Army camp Assistant, which is included with your Mac.

1. Check your Secure Kicking setting

Larn how to check your Secure Kick setting. The default Secure Boot setting is Full Security. If yous changed it to No Security, change it back to Full Security before installing Windows. After installing Windows, you can use any Secure Boot setting without affecting your power to offset upwards from Windows.

ii. Use Boot Military camp Assistant to create a Windows partition

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

  • If you lot're asked to insert a USB bulldoze, plug your USB wink drive into your Mac. Boot Camp Banana volition use it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation.
  • When Kicking Camp Assistant asks you to set the size of the Windows division, call up the minimum storage-space requirements in the previous section. Ready a division size that meets your needs, considering y'all tin can't change its size later.

3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) partition

When Boot Camp Assistant finishes, your Mac restarts to the Windows installer. If the installer asks where to install Windows, select the BOOTCAMP sectionalisation and click Format. In most cases, the installer selects and formats the BOOTCAMP partition automatically.

iv. Install Windows

Unplug any external devices that aren't necessary during installation. So click Side by side and follow the onscreen instructions to begin installing Windows.

5. Use the Boot Military camp installer in Windows

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

  • If the Boot Army camp installer never opens, open the Boot Camp installer manually and use it to complete Boot Camp installation.
  • If you take an external display connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the display volition be blank (black, grey, or blue) for up to 2 minutes during installation.

How to switch betwixt Windows and macOS

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If you take one of these Intel-based Mac models using Bone 10 El Capitan or later, you don't need a USB flash drive to install Windows:

  • MacBook introduced in 2015 or later on
  • MacBook Air introduced in 2017 or laterthree
  • MacBook Pro introduced in 2015 or lateriii
  • iMac introduced in 2015 or later
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in late 2013 or later

i. If you're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) with a 3TB difficult drive and macOS Mojave or later, larn about an alert y'all might encounter during installation.

2. For example, if your Mac has 128GB of retentiveness, its startup disk must have at least 128GB of storage space available for Windows. To see how much retentivity your Mac has, choose Apple tree carte  > About This Mac. To see how much storage space is available, click the Storage tab in the aforementioned window.

3. These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives as an option. Apple recommends 256GB or larger difficult drives so that you tin create a Kick Campsite partitioning of at least 128GB.

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