Comments on: How to make a Windows 7 64bit Mac Compatible DVD

By: volcomj

volcomj — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:16:12 +0000

Is this possible under 10.5, plain old Leopard? Mac website says Windows 7 is only comptible with with boot camp 3.1 and Snow Leopard.

I assume this is the workaround to make windows 7 work on 10.5.

By: Saintalfonzo

Saintalfonzo — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:08:04 +0000

Thanks for the help! Glad i managed it.

By: MacTyler

MacTyler — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:23:31 +0000

You can simply make the DVD on a windows machine and then use it on your mac.

By: RobP

RobP — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:54:23 +0000

Use Daemon Tools to mount the ISO, then just copy them across.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:41:23 +0000

Hi I do not have any form of windows installed on my mac. Is it required that I have windows installed on my computer before completing the steps to make a compatible DVD or can I simply make the DVD on a windows machine and then use it on my mac?

By: MacTyler

MacTyler — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:49:05 +0000

Glad it helped!

By: doug

doug — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:01:01 +0000

YOU ROCK! Thanks for the help

By: ajtay

ajtay — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:23:44 +0000

I just purchased and installed Apple's 'Parallel' program just to install Windows 7. Now that I bought and downloaded Windows 7 (files only, no CD) to my Macbook laptop even after I burn them to a DVD because they were so large, I still can not get 'Parallel' to run them because it say it's a 'non bootable cd/dvd'. Please advise..on WHAT THE HELL to do. Thanks.

By: justin_12345

justin_12345 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:30:07 +0000

I recently tried copying the windows 7 64 disk to the windows7iso folder. The command ran successful. The contents of windows7dvd revealed one folder inside: “windows7dvd.iso” The file was burned to a dvd and then I attempted to use it as the windows 7 install disk. A black screen appeared saying “No bootable device — insert boot disk and press any key”
The command was run 2 different ways (-n) and (-nt) Both failed.
oscdimg -n -m -bc:windows7isobootetfsboot.com c:windows7iso c:windows7dvdwindows7dvd.iso
-I did not unzip the windows7 folder using image burn or winRAR. I simply dragged and dropped the contents into windows7iso. (Not sure if this is a problem?)
-The command was run inside windows, but the dvd was burned in mac osx snow leopard. (This could also be a problem as well?)
macbook pro late 2007

By: ErikAllen

ErikAllen — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:28:59 +0000

I actually purchased a Windows 7 DVD, so I did not download from MS.
Can I replace step 2 with just copying the contents of the DVD to c:windows7iso?