The Apple’s Boot Camp Assistant provides you with 3 functions to run Windows on Mac, including help you to partition your Mac hard drive into 2 partitions (the Mac hard drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended), install Windows device drivers for Apple hardware and allow you to select which operating system to boot. Speaking of Bootcamp partition, you have to know the Boot Camp Assistant. Mac runs on Mac OS X, and Windows runs on NTFS. Why you need to create a new partition on your Mac? That’s because the Windows and the Mac works on different format. Why you want to install and run Windows on a Mac computer? If you want to install some applications that only work on Windows or just want to make it different from OS X something like that, it’s a good choice for you. What is Boot Camp Assistant and Bootcamp Partition?īootcamp partition is a NTFS partition for installing Microsoft Windows operating system on an Intel-based Macintosh computer.
