How To Edit Info.plist On Mac Boot Camp For Installing Usb Win 7

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In Windows on your Mac, click in the right side of the taskbar, click the Boot Camp icon, then choose Boot Camp Control Panel. If a User Account Control dialog appears, click Yes. Select the startup disk that has the default operating system you want to use. If you want to start up using the default operating system now, click Restart. Next, set a size for Windows volume. It should be more than 50G to run Windows 7 smoothly on Mac. Part 4: Install Windows 7 from USB on Mac without Boot Camp. At this point, you have already downloaded the Windows ISO and created a bootable Windows 7 USB with the help of the UUByte ISO Editor tool. Boot Camp 5.1 includes several Mac drivers so that Windows will recognize your trackpad, Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, the iSight (or FaceTime) camera, the Eject key on the Mac keyboard, networking, audio, graphics, and so on. A Boot Camp Control Panel for Windows and an Apple Boot Camp system-tray item will be added.

Prerequesites:

  • 4GB+ USB Stick
  • Windows 7 ISO from Microsoft downloaded to your OSX-Machine

Preparing the drive

  1. Open Disk utility
  2. Find the drive, format it with the following options:
  • Choose Master Boot Record (MBR)
  • 1 Partition (full size)
  • MS DOS FAT

Hacking Bootcamp

If your Mac is rather new, you can’t choose the “Create USB” Option from Bootcamp so you have to hack Bootcamp first.

  1. Open the “Sytem Information” App and find out the “Boot ROM Version” and your “Model Identifier”
  2. Open Terminal
  3. Backup
  • sudo cp /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/Info.plist ~/Desktop/Info.plist.bak
How to edit info.plist on mac boot camp for installing usb win 7 64-bit
  1. Edit Info.plist `sudo vi /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/Info.plist”
  2. Under DARequiredROMVersions add your Boot ROM Version, enclosed in tags, like you see it there.
  3. Under PreUSBBootSupportedModel add your Model Identifier in the same manner.
  4. Change PreUSBBootSupportedModels to USBBootSupportedModels, removing the “Pre”.
  5. Save+quit :wq
  6. Sign the Boot Camp App again.
  7. This step does NOT work if you put the backup file inside the .app-Container, or added any other files. This is actually a mistake in most of the tutorials you find out there.
  8. Install XCode
  9. Install Xcode-command line tools
  10. sudo codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Boot Camp Assistant

Creating the USB Drive

  1. Open Boot Camp Assistant
  2. Select “Create USB Drive”, uncheck the other options.
  3. Select your preformatted drive and the ISO and you’re good to go.

This tutorial will show you how to create a Windows To Go USB drive that supports Mac computers, then you can run Windows to go on a Mac computer to complete the work that must be done under Windows.

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I hav a late 2016 MacBook Pro with MacOS and Windows 10 Pro dual systems installed on it, so far so good, but I only use Windows 10 Pro to play some games that can't be run on MacOS. Now I'm trying to get rid of my Bootcamp installation, because of low space on main SSD drive. I noticed that WinToUSB can install Windows to a USB drive, can the Windows USB drive created by WinToUSB be started from a Mac computer? How do I make it? Could let me know step by step for using your tools.

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Yes, the Windows To Go USB drive created by WinToUSB can be started from a Mac computer, but not all Windows To Go USB drive created by WinToUSB can be started from a Mac computer. So we need to understand what causes the WinToUSB USB drive to fail to boot and then we can effectively avoid it.

1. Now All of Apple's computers use Intel CPUs, and Apple selected the Intel-designed Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) as its BIOS firmware to replace the Open firmware used on the PowerPC architecture. So in order to boot a Mac computer, we have to make sure that the Windows To Go USB drive that we created supports EFI booting.
2. For booting Windows on an (U)EFI-based computer, the Windows version must match the PC architecture, that means a 64-bit (U)EFI-based computer can only boot 64-bit versions of Windows and a 32-bit (U)EFI-based computer can only boot 32-bit versions of Windows. Mac computers use 64-bit Intel CPUs, so make sure you use 64-bit Windows to create Windows To Go.

Tutorial to create and run Windows To Go on a Mac computer with WinToUSB.

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Step 1. Download Mac Boot Camp Support Software for Windows To Go, please refer to:
How to download Boot Camp Windows Support Software for Windows To Go?

Step 2. Copy the Boot Camp Support Software downloaded in the previous step to the computer with an installed copy of WinToUSB, and connect the destination external hard drive or USB flash drive to this computer, then run WinToUSB.

Step 3. Click the button, then click the button and select the Windows installation ISO file from the open dialog box.

Step 4. WinToUSB scans for and lists available operating systems. Pleae select the edition of Windows you want to install, then click 'Next'.

Step 5. Select the destination drive in the drop-down list. If the drive is not correctly recognized by WinToUSB, please click the button for the program to recognize the drive.

Step 6. A pop-up will appear asking you if you want to format it to continue, select the partition scheme you want to use and click 'Yes' to format it. Mac computer is a UEFI based computer, so you have to select the 'GPT for UEFI' or 'MBR for BIOS and UEFI' option as the partition scheme. If you choose 'Keep the existing partition scheme', you need to manually prepare the partitions on the USB drive before this step, and here is the user guide on how to manually prepare partitions for Windows To Go. Please note that the 'Keep the existing partition scheme' option is valid only for an external disk.

Step 7. Select the system partition and boot partition from the partition list, the selected partitions will be marked as red, specify the directory of the additional drivers as the save path of Boot Camp Support Software, then click 'Next'.

Tips:
  1. The directory of the additional drivers you specify should only contain drivers that need to be injected into Windows. If this directory contains too many useless files, the process of injecting drivers will become very slow.

Step 8. After clicking 'Next', WinToUSB begins installing Windows.

Step 9. It takes some time to install. After installation, safely unplug the USB drive from the Windows computer, then connect the USB drive to the Mac computer you want to boot. If you have only the USB-C interface on your Mac computer, you will need to use the USB-C to USB Adapter to connect the USB device to your Mac computer.

Step 10. Power on the Mac computer, and then immediately hold down the Option key, then select the USB drive and press Return to boot from it.

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Step 11. Windows normal installation starts up and you have to complete all the installation steps. If the Mac's own keyboard or touchpad does not work, you have to use an external USB keyboard or mouse to complete the installation. After that, you can install Windows Support Software (Boot Camp drivers), programs, copy files, etc.

Now you know how to create and run Windows To Go on a Mac computer with the best free Windows To Go Creator WinToUSB, you can also use WinToUSB to clone existing Windows to a USB drive and then boot Windows from that USB drive on a Mac computer.

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