Click the "x" to close the installation for Windows 7, it threatens your MBP will restart, and allow it to do so.We don't really want that, we want Windows 8 right? Let it do its thing, and eventually you will land at the Windows 7 installation interface.BootCamp Assistant will now partition your drive, make the windows side bootable and restart your MBP. INSTEAD place a Windows 7 install disc in, and click next.OSX 10.8.3 / BootCamp will advise you there is no support for Windows 8.only 7 with your Mid 09 Macbook Pro if you have put your Windows 8 disc in, upsetting you as it did me.possibly bringing you to this post, thats not FAIR is it? Your 09 MacBook Pro is still JUST AS GOOD as a lot of PC's running Windows 8, why they excluded this model i have no idea.im sure they had reasons, but i dont care at the moment.lol I however bought a huge new internal drive to split them basically in half, as i use them both frequently. Partition your hard drive as youd like, this splits up your storage space however you like, keep in mind which OS you plan to run the most, and obviously give that one more room, i.e you do all your Photoshop work, and app development in OSX, and only use Windows for office stuff, you'd want to give yourself more room on the OSX side.That being said and done, in BootCamp Assistant (OSX), only check off Install Windows 7, leaving the download support software unchecked.As a matter of fact, DO IT THIS WAY and dont bother Inside BootCamp Assistant, the driver download may hang,it did for me, uld be heavy usage due to the popular new update.so i recommend downloading it faster, and manually here and get yes this is for windows 7, ALSO while you are there, download the windows 8 support pack, as we will need that later as well.we are licensing Windows 8, NOT 7, this is just for my trick to fool bootcamp assistant and no i do not condone piracy) Gather your Windows 8 install disc AND a Windows 7 install disc (you can surely find one by searching the net, use your old one, or borrow a colleagues.Do not fret, i have the solution, and EVERYTHING works perfectly. Making the install impossible through bootcamp. The day i bought the new hardware, Apple released 10.8.3, and an updated bootcamp to support Windows 8! Yay! I got my install disc out (iso file burned to DVD), opened up bootcamp assistant, only to get an error saying apple dropped support for my mid 09 Macbook Pro and Windows 8. So i loved the new Windows 8, and even had it installed before bootcamp supported windows 8 on my new iMac, i waited to buy a bigger hard drive and more ram for my mid 09 Macbook Pro.
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