Hey, Guys! I've searched (but not found that i need) here and over all Google "How to install Windows Vista on Mountain Lion?" BootCamp 4.0 Does not support Windows Vista (7 Only), so, anybody here know how to do this? Thanks in advance.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Windows Vista, BootCamp
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OS X Mountain Lion only supports Windows 7. If you want to use Windows Vista, install Parallels, VMware Fusion or VirtualBox and install Windows Vista on a virtual machine. The performance won't be the same, but it will work. Or you can buy Windows 7, or wait until Apple launches Windows 8 compatibility with Boot Camp
Or alternatively you can install an earlier version of osx which comes with a bootcamp version compatible with windows vista. I think Lion was the last version that still supported windows vista.
Once vista installed it works just fine together with mountain lion.
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Or alternatively you can install an earlier version of osx which comes with a bootcamp version compatible with windows vista.
The problem with that is Macs generally will not boot to an OSX version older than what they had installed when shipped.
In such a case there are no vista drivers avaible as well. That is the whole idea why the vista and xp support was removed from 10.8
Newer hardware does not have any driver support anymore for those older windows systems, thought I complettely agree that it is super annoying for such cases when you actually have to right drivers for your hardware, but are unable to simply start the installation because you updated your OS.
By the way, you can initiate a windows 7 install in mountain lion and than simply switch the windows dvd out for the XP or vista one when your system reboots. Bootcamp drivers can be installed from an old osx dvd or a old bootcamp download. This again requiers that your hardware actually is supported by older bootcamp versions and that you have access to a win7 install medium.
Can i install Windows Vista on OSX 10.8?
