- How to format usb drive to ntfs windows 8.1 how to#
- How to format usb drive to ntfs windows 8.1 install#
- How to format usb drive to ntfs windows 8.1 drivers#
Instructions for installing refind are available online too.
How to format usb drive to ntfs windows 8.1 drivers#
(Here are the instructions that allowed me to create the bootable USB from an ISO.) I also needed to download the Bootcamp drivers manually and copy them to the USB drive myself. You already have found instructions for creating the bootable USB drive.
How to format usb drive to ntfs windows 8.1 install#
Then, using refind, you can boot to the windows partition, which will start the windows installer you just copied there, and you can install to the same partition. Then you delete all of the files from the Windows partition and copy all the files from your bootable USB drive. Basically you use VM software, such as VMWare, pointed at your bootcamp hard drive partition (instead of to a virtual disk, which is what VM machines normally do) to install windows which makes the bootcamp partition bootable. I was able to install Windows 7 Ultimate on my MacBook Pro Early 2011 (MacBookPro8,2) using these instructions ( archived instructions). I you already have an NTFS partition (as your screenshot above shows), you can skip this step as you already have the hybrid MBR created. You can reformat it NTFS during the Windows install. This will create the hybrid MBR that Windows needs to boot. NOTE: Use Disk Utility to create yourself a FAT-formatted partition on the disk BEFORE you attempt to install Windows.
How to format usb drive to ntfs windows 8.1 how to#
Here is a link to the rEFInd home page, and here's how to install and bless the rEFInd directory. You will then see Windows and OS X as options in the Startup Disk control panel. If you don't like rEFInd you can remove it after Windows is installed. REFInd will then take over the boot process and will allow you to boot to USB media. The only way to boot a USB stick for the purpose of installing Windows is to use rEFInd and bless the rEFInd directory as your startup folder (which itself must be done from the command line as the Startup Disk control panel won't even show it as an option). However, they never backported this fix to non-retina models (and the Boot Camp assistant on non-retina models does not have the USB option). On a retina display MacBook, the Boot Camp assistant even makes a USB flash drive for you the same as Rufus does.
Apple fixed this with the retina models because they have no optical drive, meaning USB is the ONLY way to install Windows. Non-retina display MacBooks cannot boot anything other than OS X from a USB flash drive.
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