How to Install Windows on your MacBook using Boot Camp

You have a MacBook and you want to use an application that only works on Windows.

Boot Camp requires MacBook model which has an Intel processor. Please ensure that your MacBook model is one of the following models listed here.
On your MacBook, click Apple icon, then click About This Mac, and ensure that an item labeled Processor, not Chip, is shown, as described here.

Ensure that your macOS is up-to-date and does not have any issue.
If you want to reinstall macOS then you can hold down Command+R after powering your machine on.

On macOS:

Finder > Shift+Command+u > Boot Camp Assistant
Select 350Gb (or another appropriate size) for Windows. Use Windows 10 version 1909, April 2020 or Windows 10 version 1709, November 2017.
Remove unnecessary macOS applications (e.g. Numbers, Pages, Garage Band) if you want to use as much as possible storage for Windows.
Install Windows 10.
– DO NOT USE Disk Management to create new partitions during Windows installation. Only use Disk Management to format an existing partition when installing Windows.
– During the next boot into OS X, the OSXRESERVED partition is removed and put back into the Core Storage container of the OS X partition.

On Windows:

Install Boot Camp drivers.
Click Boot Camp icon. Click Boot Camp Control Panel… > TrackPad > Tap to Click > Apply > OK.
Change Computer Name, disable System Protection, enable Remote Desktop, activate Windows.
Optionally press Win + R and type “msconfig” then click OK. Then Select the Boot tab and delete unnecessary OS boot item.
Turn on Automatic Logon
Command Prompt (Run as Administrator) >> netplwiz
Disable Hibernate
Command Prompt (Run as Administrator) >> powercfg.exe /hibernate off
Power management > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings
>> Hard disk > Turn of hard disk after > Never
>> Sleep > Sleep after > Never
Adjust System > Display > Brightness and color.
Uninstall unnecessary apps.
Use Disk Management to shrink the BOOTCAMP partition and create a new DATA partition. Use 150Gb (153600MB) as the amount of space to shrink.
Check and install Windows updates.
Copy portable apps.

Turn the following Windows features on: ASP.NET 3.5, 4.7, Internet Information Service, Telnet Client
Install Hyper-V, create an external Virtual Switch for Internet access
Install Total Commander, Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Install Firefox
Install MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MS Office 2007 SP3 (Display >> Scale and layout: 175%), MS Project 2016, MS Visio 2016, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2015, Adobe Acrobat Pro DC v15.8, Adobe Photoshop CC 2015, TortoiseSVN 1.11.1
Install Python 3.6.8, TensorFlow, Keras

On Windows:

Delete all Windows Data partitions, then Extend the Boot Camp volume (C:\) using Windows Disk Management.

On macOS:

Finder > Shift+Command+u > Boot Camp Assistant > Continue > Restore
If you get any problem with Boot Camp Assistant then delete Windows Boot Camp partition using Disk Utility: Finder > Shift+Command+u > Disk Utility > Partition.
If you get a “Ghost” partition after deleting Windows Boot Camp partition using Disk Utility then please use the following procedure to remove it:

Execute below command:

diskutil list

Find EFI IDENTIFIER (e.g. disk0s1).

Execute 2 below commands:

sudo mkdir /Volumes/efi
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi

Navigate to /Volumes/efi/EFI. Delete all directories (i.e. Microsoft and Boot) except the APPLE directory.

Execute below command:

diskutil unmount /Volumes/efi

Download and install 7-Zip.
Download Brigadier 0.2.4.
Run Brigadier to automatically detect your Mac model and download the right Boot Camp drivers for Windows 10, and extract them (using 7-Zip) to the same location where Brigadier executable is located.
Find and double-click on Setup.exe to run it.

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