I upgraded my Windows 7 pro to Winows 10 pro in Parallels Desktop 10 (20105.
#How to install windows 7 on macbook air with disc windows 10#
Get MacBook Air Portable Genius, 4th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform. Install Windows 10 on your Mac with the built in Apple Bootcamp software. If you’re running Windows 8 or 7, you need to provide User Account Control credentials to continue.
When the Windows installation is complete, insert your OS X installation disc or flash drive, or the disc or drive that contains the Boot Camp Windows support software. It's also faster than Windows 10 and takes up less of my hard drive space. I want Windows 7 since some programs I need don't work the best on Windows 10.
When you get to the Where Do You Want to Install Windows? screen, click the BOOTCAMP partition, click Drive Options, and then click Format. Even if the Mac system uses Mac OS, you can still run Windows on it this way. Windows 7 requires a file system called NTFS. Boot Camp formats the BOOTCAMP partition using the FAT32 file system, which won’t work for Windows 7.When you get to the Where Do You Want to Install Windows? screen, click the BOOTCAMP partition.When you get to the Which Type of Installation Do You Want? screen, click Custom.Follow the Windows installation screens as they appear. When the new partition is ready to go, OS X restarts to begin the Windows installation.