When the screen is gray, press and hold the alt/option key.

Older Mac: While rebooting, eject the Windows 7 disk and insert the Windows 8 disk now.

Or Windows 7 disk if you’re using the older Mac.

The system will reboot in order to boot into the Windows 8 disk.

This will give you the required Bootcamp drivers needed to complete your Windows Installation.

Older Macbooks – Select Download latest Windows support from Apple.

I chose 250GB as I plan on installing a decent amount of software on the Windows side.

Once Bootcamp opens, select your desired disk size for your Windows partition.

Check both boxes on the “Select Tasks” tab.

Older Macs: Insert a Windows 7 Disk into the DVD drive.

Insert your Windows 8 Disk into your DVD drive.

If you really want to upgrade you MacBook, you might also be interested in our review of the gold plated Macbook Air. All the major points will be applicable to the newer, but I will still provide notes for anyone using as dated a machine as I am.

Take note, I will be installing Windows 8 on an older MacBook Pro. Not to mention, The 8.1 update is supposed to bring it back for free at some undisclosed time. Sure, there’s the annoyance of the lack of a Start Menu, but we’ll be fixing that. It boots, mounts and dismounts drives and searches faster than Windows 7. The Apple-ites will exclaim, “Why would you want to do that”, and the uninformed will ask, “Why would you want to install Windows 8”. This week I decided to install Windows 8 on the MacBook Pro I’ve been using.

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