In order to do so, go to Finder -> Utilities - > Right-click on Boot Camp Assistant - > Show. El Capitan makes it easier and you just have to select the ISO and the amount of space that we want the partition to occupy Windows and click install, it's that simple.īut then, where is the Windows installer partition? Very simple, OS X El Capitan apart from creating as it did previous versions of the system, a Boot Camp partition to install Windows, now it also creates another partition named OSXRESERVED which will occupy 8Gb in FAT32 format and which will be located after the recovery partition and before the Boot Camp partition. First, we need to go to the Boot Camp Assistant Content folder.

(You can't install Windows on an external drive using Boot Camp. I am referring to the change in Boot Camp, not because the Windows installation wizard has radically changed, but because now those users who want to install the Microsoft system on your Mac you will not have the need to create a partition on a USB memory, but it can be installed natively.īefore you had to plug in a USB memory and the Boot Camp Assistant I copied the installer from the ISO image to the memory unit and then downloaded and configured the necessary Windows drivers in the location where the installer for the hardware of that specific Mac was located. Online, the Mac population is divided into thirds: people who had no problem installing.

Apart from the news that we are getting to know little by little about OS X El Capitan, we also find others that, although it has not had so much impact, it may be interesting for certain users.

Bootcamp assistant no usb drive