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Bootcamp and Windows OS.

I plan to install Windows 10 32-bit with Bootcamp on a late 2013 MacBook Pro edition. I want to know exactly what capacity I need to install it. The only thing I know is that I need a USB Flash disk with enough Gigabyte on. My question is exactly, what are all the requirements because I can't find it on the Internet.
Not even the process of the installation in Bootcamp shows me what I really need. I think maybe I need at least 10GB capacity on the USB flash disk. That's all I know.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Feb 1, 2016 12:16 PM

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Posted on Feb 1, 2016 5:02 PM

1. You need a 8+Gb USB2 flash drive. Do not use a USB HDD.

2. Please see How to install Windows using Boot Camp - Apple Support for the procedure.

3. Please see https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/assistant/6.0/ for BC Assistant help.

4. Size of the partition also depends on the amount of RAM on your Mac. Usually, 60-100GB for the Windows partition should be sufficient.

5. You should use 64-bit, unless the applications you need will not run on 64-bit Windows.

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Feb 1, 2016 5:02 PM in response to AKAJEF

1. You need a 8+Gb USB2 flash drive. Do not use a USB HDD.

2. Please see How to install Windows using Boot Camp - Apple Support for the procedure.

3. Please see https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/assistant/6.0/ for BC Assistant help.

4. Size of the partition also depends on the amount of RAM on your Mac. Usually, 60-100GB for the Windows partition should be sufficient.

5. You should use 64-bit, unless the applications you need will not run on 64-bit Windows.

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Loner T
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Feb 1, 2016 5:02 PM in response to AKAJEF

The RAM (memory) installed on your Mac is used by the Windows installer to create large files used to support Sleep/Hibernate and memory management.


Typically a 16GB Mac will use about 20-30 GB for such files. You should leave 2 x RAM for these two files.


Here is an example from my 16GB Mac.


ls -lgh

total 58393712

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 0B Feb 10 2014 $Recycle.Bin

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Aug 10 2014 93bda1828a11a8c4e5918a82

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 8.0K Feb 10 2014 BOOTSECT.BAK

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 4.0K Apr 3 2015 Boot

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 0B Jul 14 2009 Documents and Settings

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Feb 10 2014 Intel

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Aug 3 2015 NVIDIA

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Jul 13 2009 PerfLogs

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 8.0K Sep 28 14:58 Program Files

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 8.0K Sep 28 14:55 Program Files (x86)

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 4.0K Sep 28 14:58 ProgramData

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 0B Feb 10 2014 Recovery

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 8.0K Jan 31 16:53 System Volume Information

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 4.0K Aug 3 2015 Users

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 16K Aug 18 10:40 Windows

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 375K Nov 20 2010 bootmgr

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 12G Jan 31 21:19 hiberfil.sys

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 16G Jan 31 21:19 pagefile.sys

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