{"id":991,"date":"2019-10-18T04:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=991"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:31:25","slug":"basic-boot-camp-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2019\/basic-boot-camp-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Boot Camp Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Step 1.<\/strong> Back up your Mac hard drive before proceeding! Boot Camp usually does a good job of not disturbing your existing Mac files, but altering hard disk partitions always carries some risk of erasing all your data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2.<\/strong> Get a USB stick with nothing important on it. As part of the installation process, the Boot Camp Assistant will find Windows drivers for your hardware and copy them there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3. <\/strong>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/software-download\/windows10#d2784474-fdb0-4e9d-9e47-5e88c0e05\">Windows 10 install media<\/a> as an ISO file. (It&#8217;s free to download; you can activate it later.)<br \/>\n<img border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/bootcamp1-3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4. <\/strong>Insert your USB stick and run the Boot Camp Assistant.<br \/>\n<img border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/bootcamp2-3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5.<\/strong> Select the ISO file and choose your partition size. (I recommend no less than 80GB, and ideally 120GB or more.) Click Install to begin the process.<br \/>\n<img border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/bootcamp3-3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 6<\/strong>. Reformat your USB stick if the Boot Camp Assistant asks you to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 7.<\/strong> Reboot the Mac holding down the option key to boot to Windows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 8. <\/strong>Install the Windows hardware drivers that the Boot Camp Assistant copied to the USB stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1. Back up your Mac hard drive before proceeding! Boot Camp usually does a good job of not disturbing your existing Mac files, but altering hard disk partitions always carries some risk of erasing all your data. Step 2. Get a USB stick with nothing important on it. As part of the installation process, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}