Like many of you I have been trying to make my older machines break into the newer era of Windows. One major hurtle is the EFI32 on all of the first generation Intel macs that makes installing Windows x64 on them nearly impossible. Recently, I personally using various resources on this forum and on other websites found a way to make a ISO that will install Windows 7/10 x64 on a Mac Pro 1,1/2,1. I've noticed throughout this forum and anywhere else the information on this is scattered, not updated and is not really concise on what you have to do. It's for this reason I chose to write a basic tutorial on how to do this. This tutorial will guide you on how to make the ISO image from a normal Windows 7 x64 or Windows 10 x64. Likely, this would work with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.
Recently I have dual booted a Mac with windows **Without Using BootCamp Assistant. Instead I used media creation tool on an another PC to download Windows 10 ISO file and had created bootable pen drive using Rufus. Smoothly, plugging in the pen drive and installing Windows from it. Download Windows 10 and Boot the Installer. Download a Windows 10 ISO file and either burn it to a DVD or make a bootable USB flash drive. Microsoft’s Windows USB/DVD Download Tool still works well, and will let you image a Windows 10 ISO file onto a USB drive. Leave the DVD or USB drive in your computer and reboot.
I also believe this would work for Vista, but I don't know why you'd ever want to install that. This would also work on any EFI32 machine that has this same issue, specifically many of the first generation Intel Macs. Requirements: - A computer running Windows XP+. This could any machine with Windows x86 or x64. A Windows 7/10 x64 ISO image. The ability to install programs on your Windows machine. 1.) Either put your physical install disk in to your DVD drive, mount your ISO to a folder on your PC or 7-Zip extract the ISO to a new folder.
If you have Windows 10 simply right click and select open in Windows Explorer. If you have Windows XP/Vista/7 you will need to use 7-ZIP to extract the files from your ISO. Make sure you extract it to a new folder with only the Windows ISO extract in it.
You do not have to extract the files if you have a physical disk in your DVD drive or have mounted it virtually on Windows 10. 2.) Now you need to download Imgburn (.) This is a free program that will allow for us to correct the issue with the ISO. Download this program and install it on your computer. 3.) Now, open up Imgburn and follow these instructions very carefully. Mode - Build - Under Source click the folder with the magnifying glass. Navigate to the folder one level above where you put your extracted ISO and select the folder containing your Windows ISO extract. DO NOT open the folder, but just select it If you have the disk physically in your disk drive you simply select the disk drive not the individual folders inside.
Options - File System - ISO9660 + UDF (Should be option already set.) - Options - UDF Revision - 1.02 - Advanced - Restrictions - Level X - 219 Characters (Select option.) - Advanced - Restrictions - Allow More than 8 Directory Levels. (Check the box.) - Advanced - Restrictions - Allow More Than 255 Characters in Path. Thanks for this information!
I'm new to the whole Apple ecosystem, and decided to dive in head-first with an old Mac Pro 1,1 before investing too much. My intention was to dual-boot Windows 10 on it, for as long as needed, but I was getting disappointed at the lack of 64-bit support, and was getting confused at the smattering of info scattered across the years. My only question (for now): Is this method intended for a sole Windows installation, turning the Mac Pro into a 'pure Windows' box, I guess? Or is it still possible to configure it to dual boot MacOS (without the need of additional newer Mac hardware for the setup)?
Thanks for this information! I'm new to the whole Apple ecosystem, and decided to dive in head-first with an old Mac Pro 1,1 before investing too much. My intention was to dual-boot Windows 10 on it, for as long as needed, but I was getting disappointed at the lack of 64-bit support, and was getting confused at the smattering of info scattered across the years. My only question (for now): Is this method intended for a sole Windows installation, turning the Mac Pro into a 'pure Windows' box, I guess? Or is it still possible to configure it to dual boot MacOS (without the need of additional newer Mac hardware for the setup)?
The way I got it working was I downloaded ' premade Windows 10 64bit (edited boot efi) And burnt it to a dvd. I had an older pc laptop lying around, I put the dvd into it and booted/installed it to the drive on the laptop. Once it had all installed, I took out the HDD and put it into the first drive bay in my mac pro! Booted perfectly (after holding alt on startup and selecting the windows volume). Now I just have to install the various drivers (bootcamp drivers and GPU drivers etc).
Hope this helps people. Like many of you I have been trying to make my older machines break into the newer era of Windows.
One major hurtle is the EFI32 on all of the first generation Intel macs that makes installing Windows x64 on them nearly impossible. Recently, I personally using various resources on this forum and on other websites found a way to make a ISO that will install Windows 7/10 x64 on a Mac Pro 1,1/2,1. I've noticed throughout this forum and anywhere else the information on this is scattered, not updated and is not really concise on what you have to do. It's for this reason I chose to write a basic tutorial on how to do this. This tutorial will guide you on how to make the ISO image from a normal Windows 7 x64 or Windows 10 x64.
Likely, this would work with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. I also believe this would work for Vista, but I don't know why you'd ever want to install that. This would also work on any EFI32 machine that has this same issue, specifically many of the first generation Intel Macs. Requirements: - A computer running Windows XP+. This could any machine with Windows x86 or x64. A Windows 7/10 x64 ISO image. The ability to install programs on your Windows machine.
1.) Either put your physical install disk in to your DVD drive, mount your ISO to a folder on your PC or 7-Zip extract the ISO to a new folder. If you have Windows 10 simply right click and select open in Windows Explorer. If you have Windows XP/Vista/7 you will need to use 7-ZIP to extract the files from your ISO. Make sure you extract it to a new folder with only the Windows ISO extract in it. You do not have to extract the files if you have a physical disk in your DVD drive or have mounted it virtually on Windows 10. 2.) Now you need to download Imgburn (.) This is a free program that will allow for us to correct the issue with the ISO. Download this program and install it on your computer.
3.) Now, open up Imgburn and follow these instructions very carefully. Mode - Build - Under Source click the folder with the magnifying glass. Navigate to the folder one level above where you put your extracted ISO and select the folder containing your Windows ISO extract.
DO NOT open the folder, but just select it If you have the disk physically in your disk drive you simply select the disk drive not the individual folders inside. Options - File System - ISO9660 + UDF (Should be option already set.) - Options - UDF Revision - 1.02 - Advanced - Restrictions - Level X - 219 Characters (Select option.) - Advanced - Restrictions - Allow More than 8 Directory Levels. (Check the box.) - Advanced - Restrictions - Allow More Than 255 Characters in Path.
Like many of you I have been trying to make my older machines break into the newer era of Windows. One major hurtle is the EFI32 on all of the first generation Intel macs that makes installing Windows x64 on them nearly impossible. Recently, I personally using various resources on this forum and on other websites found a way to make a ISO that will install Windows 7/10 x64 on a Mac Pro 1,1/2,1.
I've noticed throughout this forum and anywhere else the information on this is scattered, not updated and is not really concise on what you have to do. It's for this reason I chose to write a basic tutorial on how to do this. This tutorial will guide you on how to make the ISO image from a normal Windows 7 x64 or Windows 10 x64. Likely, this would work with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. I also believe this would work for Vista, but I don't know why you'd ever want to install that. This would also work on any EFI32 machine that has this same issue, specifically many of the first generation Intel Macs.
Requirements: - A computer running Windows XP+. This could any machine with Windows x86 or x64. A Windows 7/10 x64 ISO image. The ability to install programs on your Windows machine. 1.) Either put your physical install disk in to your DVD drive, mount your ISO to a folder on your PC or 7-Zip extract the ISO to a new folder. If you have Windows 10 simply right click and select open in Windows Explorer.
If you have Windows XP/Vista/7 you will need to use 7-ZIP to extract the files from your ISO. Make sure you extract it to a new folder with only the Windows ISO extract in it. You do not have to extract the files if you have a physical disk in your DVD drive or have mounted it virtually on Windows 10. 2.) Now you need to download Imgburn (.) This is a free program that will allow for us to correct the issue with the ISO. Download this program and install it on your computer. 3.) Now, open up Imgburn and follow these instructions very carefully. Mode - Build - Under Source click the folder with the magnifying glass.
Navigate to the folder one level above where you put your extracted ISO and select the folder containing your Windows ISO extract. DO NOT open the folder, but just select it If you have the disk physically in your disk drive you simply select the disk drive not the individual folders inside. Options - File System - ISO9660 + UDF (Should be option already set.) - Options - UDF Revision - 1.02 - Advanced - Restrictions - Level X - 219 Characters (Select option.) - Advanced - Restrictions - Allow More than 8 Directory Levels. (Check the box.) - Advanced - Restrictions - Allow More Than 255 Characters in Path.