Retina MacBook Pro Win 8 bootcamp question

[Matchy]

Hi everyone. My new retina MacBook Pro (refurbished 2012 retina MacBook Pro) will arrive tonight (9:30am here in Hong Kong)

I would like to setup up windows 8 along side with Mountain Lion since I need to do some of my academic work on windows side. ( I prefer native boot no virtualisation)

However, I would like to ask does the bootcamp assistant format the new partition to GPT format or MBR ? As far as I know Windows 8 (EFI mode) required GPT partition.

Would like to ask for anyone that install windows 8 with the new bootcamp assistant that came with 10.8.3 update. Thanks

 

[monkeybagel]

Hi everyone. My new retina MacBook Pro (refurbished 2012 retina MacBook Pro) will arrive tonight (9:30am here in Hong Kong)

I would like to setup up windows 8 along side with Mountain Lion since I need to do some of my academic work on windows side. ( I prefer native boot no virtualisation)

However, I would like to ask does the bootcamp assistant format the new partition to GPT format or MBR ? As far as I know Windows 8 (EFI mode) required GPT partition.

Would like to ask for anyone that install windows 8 with the new bootcamp assistant that came with 10.8.3 update. Thanks

No- it will make it a hybrid partition and boot using CSM.

 

[Matchy]

How about using disk utility to create a undefined partition

(not formating it into HFS or FAT or NTFS).

When I try to create a Windows Installation USB with the bootcamp assistant (using my old 2010 macbook pro - by changing the plist to enable the option of creating USB install drive).

When I boot up by holding down the option key:

I only saw [Macintosh HD] [Recovery HD] [EFI]

like the image below

 

[Matchy]

bump

 

[scbond]

Slightly different answer to your question but if you plan to do actual work in Windows then use Windows 7 and not 8 😀