You can move between the different options by using the arrow keys and pick one by pressing Enter. Here you will find the option to boot from the thumbdrive, which is represented by a Microsoft flag with a little icon of an external hard drive at its corner (see screenshot above). If you have done step B correctly, you will see a little photo of a hard drive with the letters "rEFIt" underneath press Enter and you will be greeted with the all-new rEFIt start-up options. As soon as the computer restarts, press and hold the Option key. Now, insert the Windows 7 installation thumbdrive into the MacBook Air's USB port and restart the machine. The partitioning takes a few minutes, and when it's done, you click on "Quit and Install Later." Pick the new partition's size carefully as you can't change it without having to reinstall Windows from the beginning. Once that's done, Boot Camp Assistant will ask to create a new partition for Windows by shrinking the existing Mac OS' partition. All will be saved in a folder called "Windows Support." You want to download and save that on the desktop of the computer as you will need it later. Go Back to the command prompt window (if you have closed it by accident, you can redo step 1 to open it again), execute the following commands:Īgain e: is the drive letter of the DVD drive and h: is the drive letter of the thumbdrive.Īfter that, the command window will show a message similar to the screenshot below.Īs the next step, it will ask you to download Windows Support software, namely the Boot Camp set of drivers, and the remote CD/DVD tool. Again, for this guide, this is the E: drive of the computer. Insert the DVD into the computer's DVD drive. We need to make the thumbdrive bootable by transferring boot information over from the Windows 7 installation DVD. However, this letter is likely different in other cases, depending on how many storage devices the computer currently has.Ĥ. Without closing the command prompt window, you can open the "Computer" to see what the drive letter of the thumbdrive is.
This is because the thumbdrive has just been assigned a drive letter. Note: after the command assign is executed, Windows will indicate (likely via a pop-up message) that a new drive has just been plugged in. This is what you should see if you have typed in all the commands correctly.
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