Hey guys, thought I’d give a few tips for those of you wanting to dual boot, and try Windows 8 on your Mac.
In my case, I didn’t have Windows 7 previously installed, so I did a clean install of Windows 8 Pro, using an upgrade disk.
I’m presuming most of you will know how to use the bootcamp utility to download the drivers and partition your drive, so I’ll skip this part.
I ran into an issue when I wanted to partition my drive, it got the following message: “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved”
To fix this, insert your OSX install disk, restart and hold C.
This will boot the CD and gives you an option to install OSX.
What you’ll need to do is go to Utilities at the top, click on Disk Utility, select your hard drive and repair disk.
Restart, and you’ll be able to partition the drive.
Once you’ve finished partitioning, insert your Windows 8 DVD/flash drive and proceed to install.
When you get to the install screen, select clean install and enter your CD key.
Once everything is installed, you’ll find that your Windows 8 cannot be activated, because no previous version of Windows was installed.
To get around this, follow these instructions:
1. Press the Windows key and type regedit. Press enter to open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/ and double-click on the MediabootInstall key in the right pane.
3. Change the key's value from 1 to 0.
4. Exit the Registry Editor, press the Windows key again, and type cmd. Right-click on the Command Prompt icon and run it as an administrator.
5. Type slmgr /rearm and press Enter.
6. Reboot Windows.
Now you Windows 8 will be activated and you can receive updates etc.
In my case I still had “Windows 8 Pro shows Test Mode Build 9200” in the bottom right hand corner on the classic desktop mode.
To get rid of this, follow these instructions:
Be sure that you run this as Admin:
Go to your desktop and right click in the bottom left hand corner
Click on Command Prompt (Admin)
At the blinking cursor type: bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF
Press enter
Then to restart, press Windows key + C to get to the Charms bar
Click Settings
Click Power
Click Restart
That should now be gone.
Now we need to install the bootcamp drivers.
If you try and run the setup normally, you’ll find that it simply will not install, even using compatibility mode. It’ll say this was intended for Windows 7 or something.
What you need to do, is copy the bootcamp drivers to your desktop.
You now need to download Microsoft Orca and edit the bootcamp install files.
You can download it from here: http://myserverissick.com/2011/04/orca-5-msi-editing-tool/
(Or you can download the huge Windows SDK kit to get it if you don’t trust the link)
Install Orca and run it.
Now you need to open the bootcamp files you’ve copied to your desktop in Orca, so click File>Open, then in my case, Bootcamp>drivers>Apple>BootCamp64
Once opened, on the left hand list, go to LaunchCondition
Right click and select Drop Row for all entries, there should be nothing there anymore and then save.
You’ll now be able to install the bootcamp drivers, which gives you proper access to the function keys which adjust brightness and sound, as well as functioning track pad (two finger scrolling, tap to click and right click) and access to the Mac drive, so you’ll be able to see all the files you have in your Mac OS.
Without the bootcamp drivers installed, none of the above is available, and sound will not work.
So there you have it, I’m not sure if anyone will actually do this, but I thought it might be of good reference for those looking to try and run into some problems that I ran into, as it’s taken me since Sunday to get everything up and running flawlessly.
Cheers!
In my case, I didn’t have Windows 7 previously installed, so I did a clean install of Windows 8 Pro, using an upgrade disk.
I’m presuming most of you will know how to use the bootcamp utility to download the drivers and partition your drive, so I’ll skip this part.
I ran into an issue when I wanted to partition my drive, it got the following message: “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved”
To fix this, insert your OSX install disk, restart and hold C.
This will boot the CD and gives you an option to install OSX.
What you’ll need to do is go to Utilities at the top, click on Disk Utility, select your hard drive and repair disk.
Restart, and you’ll be able to partition the drive.
Once you’ve finished partitioning, insert your Windows 8 DVD/flash drive and proceed to install.
When you get to the install screen, select clean install and enter your CD key.
Once everything is installed, you’ll find that your Windows 8 cannot be activated, because no previous version of Windows was installed.
To get around this, follow these instructions:
1. Press the Windows key and type regedit. Press enter to open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/ and double-click on the MediabootInstall key in the right pane.
3. Change the key's value from 1 to 0.
4. Exit the Registry Editor, press the Windows key again, and type cmd. Right-click on the Command Prompt icon and run it as an administrator.
5. Type slmgr /rearm and press Enter.
6. Reboot Windows.
Now you Windows 8 will be activated and you can receive updates etc.
In my case I still had “Windows 8 Pro shows Test Mode Build 9200” in the bottom right hand corner on the classic desktop mode.
To get rid of this, follow these instructions:
Be sure that you run this as Admin:
Go to your desktop and right click in the bottom left hand corner
Click on Command Prompt (Admin)
At the blinking cursor type: bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF
Press enter
Then to restart, press Windows key + C to get to the Charms bar
Click Settings
Click Power
Click Restart
That should now be gone.
Now we need to install the bootcamp drivers.
If you try and run the setup normally, you’ll find that it simply will not install, even using compatibility mode. It’ll say this was intended for Windows 7 or something.
What you need to do, is copy the bootcamp drivers to your desktop.
You now need to download Microsoft Orca and edit the bootcamp install files.
You can download it from here: http://myserverissick.com/2011/04/orca-5-msi-editing-tool/
(Or you can download the huge Windows SDK kit to get it if you don’t trust the link)
Install Orca and run it.
Now you need to open the bootcamp files you’ve copied to your desktop in Orca, so click File>Open, then in my case, Bootcamp>drivers>Apple>BootCamp64
Once opened, on the left hand list, go to LaunchCondition
Right click and select Drop Row for all entries, there should be nothing there anymore and then save.
You’ll now be able to install the bootcamp drivers, which gives you proper access to the function keys which adjust brightness and sound, as well as functioning track pad (two finger scrolling, tap to click and right click) and access to the Mac drive, so you’ll be able to see all the files you have in your Mac OS.
Without the bootcamp drivers installed, none of the above is available, and sound will not work.
So there you have it, I’m not sure if anyone will actually do this, but I thought it might be of good reference for those looking to try and run into some problems that I ran into, as it’s taken me since Sunday to get everything up and running flawlessly.
Cheers!
