Mar 07, 2013 Firstly, sorry if I put this in the wrong section. Secondly, here goes, so I installed Windows with bootcamp, but forget to put the apple support software in an external hard drive & install it once on Windows. Only my mouse works, the keyboard won't connect to windows & I'm unable to connect. Press down Option key for about 2-3 seconds while restarting your Mac, you can see the window below, tap on Mac Disk and your Mac will be converted to Mac OS. Switch to Mac OS X by Boot Camp. Boot Camp is a very useful and easy choice to convert Mac OS X to Windows 8 as well. Following is the detailed tutorial about converting from.
Once you've set up Boot Camp, you have three different ways to make the switch between partitions. Let's look at these based on their starting points.
If you're in Windows, you can switch to the Mac OS X partition using the Boot Camp icon in the System Tray. Click the gray diamond-shaped icon, and click 'Restart in Mac OS' from the pop-up menu. Then, confirm your choice to reboot to Mac OS X and give the computer about a minute to make the switch.
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If you're in Mac OS X, you can switch to the Windows partition using the Startup Disk utility within System Preferences. In the Startup Disk, choose the 'Windows on BOOTCAMP' partition, and click 'Restart.' Then, confirm your choice to reboot to Windows and give the computer about a minute to make the switch.
If the Mac was powered off, you can choose which partition to boot before the Mac selects for you. To do this, press the Option key on the Mac while it's on the blank white boot screen. Within a couple of seconds, the Mac should present the two partitions to you on the screen. Use the arrow keys to select a partition, and press Enter to boot to it. This Option key feature is available either when booting from a powered-off state or if you're rebooting from Windows.
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Apple Boot Camp let’s you run both Leopard and Windows on your Mac, but Boot Camp’s biggest drawback is its requirement that you reboot your computer every time you want to switch between Leopard and Windows. Two $80 remedies are readily available, Parallels Desktop from a Virginia startup, Parallels, Inc., and VMW are Fusion from VMware of Palo Alto, California.
Their respective software takes the form of a virtual machine. The programs simulate a Windows machine inside its own screen within OS X. Or, if you feel like it, you can go full-screen with Windows. The fake machine behaves just like the real deal. You can add software, surf the Web, listen to music, and play Windows games on a Mac.
You can even apply this virtualization stuff with versions of Windows dating back to Windows 3.1 as well as Linux, Solaris, OS/2, MS-DOS, and other operating systems.
Parallels and Fusion differ from Boot Camp because you can run any OS while you run Leopard, without having to restart. What’s more, you can share files and folders between OS X and Windows and cut-and-paste between the two. The Coherence feature inside Parallels lets you run Windows programs like they were Mac apps.
Neither program, as of this writing, supports the prettier Aero interface in Vista, and installation can be a bit tricky. But if you’re interested, check out Parallels and VMWare Fusion.
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Virtual or not, you’re running Windows on or inside your Mac. So take all the usual precautions by loading antivirus and other security software.