

A Boot Manager, the 100mb partition you see on windows 7 computers, can be configured to point to this installation or better yet boot the mac holding C and boot into the windows 7 install CD. To get to the latest version of macOS you will update using the Mac App Store. You can install Windows alone on all three by configuring a hard drive to be MBR, setting the active partition to be the one containing the Windows folders. Note that only the version of OS X your computer shipped with will be installed at this time. Your computer will now download Mac OS X and install it. Select your new hard drive and click Install. Click Continue.Īgree to the software licensing agreement. You'll be notified that Apple will verify your eligibility to download and restore Mac OS X. Select Quit Disk Utility from the Disk Utility menu at the top left corner of the display.Ĭhoose Reinstall Mac OS X from the Mac OS X Utilities menu.Ĭlick Continue to launch the installation wizard. We'll create '1 Partition' with the name Macintosh SSD.Ĭlick the Options button and make sure GUID Partition Table is selected then click the OK button.Ĭlick the Apply button then click the Partition button to confirm you want to partition the drive. Select your new drive from the list of devices on the left.Ĭhoose the number of partitions you'd like for the device from the Partition layout dropdown, name the partition, and ensure its format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Choose Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Utilities screen.
