Before installations restarts automatically after install power off the virtual machine.ġ2. Install Windows on the Virtual Machine just created with a iso image or like so.įormat the Bootcamp partition in the install menu and press install.ġ0. Fire up VirtualBox, make a new Virtual Machine on the disk just created.ĩ. Sudo chown YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE win7raw.vmdk win7raw-pt.vmdk –changes the permissions of the previously created files (Replace YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE with the current user name)Ĩ. Sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk0 -filename win7raw.vmdk -partitions 3 –Creates 2 files in your home directory, one of which will be used by VirtualBox to access the BootCamp Partition Sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk0s3 –Changes the permissions of the BootCamp partition to allow it to be modified (enter your admin password when asked) Make sure to press “Return” after each command to run it. Open a terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities) and enter the following commands. Now for the geeky terminal stuff to make the BootCamp partition useable within VirtualBox. “Control- >Click” the “Bootcamp” drive and select “Eject” (You can also the DiskUtility as well)ħ. The first thing we need to do is eject the BootCamp partition – Open “Finder”. Make a virtual disk from the Boot Camp partition, follow step 6 and 7.Ħ. Install a NTFS program for Mac, like Tuxera NTFS(serial at ) or Paragon NTFS.ĥ.

Make a Boot Camp partition with Boot Camp assistant.ģ.

This guide is written by user 'severin' here ġ. rEFind (older guides will tell you to use rEFit but it is not currently supported by 10.9 this is made by the same developer) People on this forum will also tell you it can't be done.

I'm documenting it here regardless of whether you need it simply because this information needs to be concise. I performed this method today on an Early 2011 Macbook pro running 10.9 that has had the disk drive removed in order to add a ssd. It consists of installing half of windows 7 via virtual machine, rebooting, deleting the installed data, replacing it, and finally completeing the install. Otherwise, there is a method that is beyond complicated. The plist tweak won't work in mavericks without using xcode to resign the code (this took me awhile and then I found out the usb was useless anyways) You can't boot from a usb (even if bootcamp makes it for you with the plist tweak) You can't install from an external cd drive Over like 10 threads this is what I found slowly If you still have a cd drive (internal) I promise, as much of a hassle as it sounds it is 10x easier to get a disk and burn windows to it, or simply buy a pre-made windows disk. In the last 3 days I've put around 10 hours trying to get windows 7 installed without using a superdrive.

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