Step 1

Start your Mac Pro while pressing and holding Option key (or ALT key on Windows keyboards) to see boot picker.

Click an arrow under EFI boot icon to boot from USB flash drive.

Make sure the USB flash drive is inserted into Mac Pro built-in USB hub (front or rear). Extra USB PCIe cards won't show a bootable flash drive.

Step 2

Choose your Language to install, time, currency and keyboard layout and click Next button.

Step 3

Click Install now button to continue.

Step 4

Enter your Windows 11 product key and click Next button. If you don't have it yet, simply click I don't have a product key. You will be able to enter your Windows 11 product key later and activate Windows.

Step 5

If you haven't entered your Windows 11 product key please choose a Windows version you plan to buy and click Next button to continue.

Step 6

Read licence terms, then check the checkbox "I accept the Microsoft Software Licence Terms. If an organisation is licensing it, I am authorised to bind the organisation." and click Next button to continue.

Step 7

Click Customised: Install Windows only (advanced).

Step 8

Choose the drive or partition on which you plan to install Windows 11 and click Next button to start the installation.

If installer doesn't allow you to install Windows on a selected drive or partition you can click Delete so it will become Unallocated Space (Warning: this will cause a loss of data if there was something on it).

Windows installer will create all necessary partitions.

Step 9

Installing Windows will take around 15-30 minutes depening on the speed of your hard drive.

Step 10

Wait a few seconds for automatic reboot or click Restart now button if you don't want to wait.

Step 11

If you have multiple Windows versions installed or other operating systems like Linux you will be presented with Windows boot picker screen.

By default Windows 11 will be booted automatically after 30 seconds.

Step 12

Now answer all installer questions starting with country or region and you will be presented with Windows 11 desktop.

Step 13

Windows 11 will install most of the drivers automatically, but we need to still install Bluetooth and internal speaker/sound card drivers manually. In order to do this we need to use a tool called Brigadier.

Open Microsoft Edge and open a following page: https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier/releases

Right click on brigadier.exe and click Save link as.

Step 14

Choose Desktop from the left menu, then click Save button to save the file on your desktop.

Step 15

Before launching Brigadier tool we need to install 7-Zip manually.

Open Microsoft Edge and open a following page: https://7-zip.org/download.html

Click first Download link from the list and run 7-Zip installer.

Step 16

Click Install button to complete 7-Zip installation.

Step 17

Once 7-Zip is installed you can now right click on brigadier.exe and choose Run as administator from context menu.

Step 18

Brigadier will automatically download the latest BootCamp package from Apple's servers for your Mac Pro model. Then it will be extracted directly to your desktop.

Step 19

Double click on BootCamp-041-84868 folder on your desktop to open it.

Step 20

Head over to Drivers/Apple/x64 folder and double click AppleBluetoothBroadcomInstaller64 to launch Bluetooth module installer.

Step 21

Click Next button and follow on screen instructions to complete Bluetooth module installation.

Step 22

Now head over to Drivers/RealTek folder and double click on RealtekSetup file to launch internal speaker/sound card driver installer.

Step 23

Click Next button and follow on screen instructions to complete internal speaker/sound card driver installation.

Step 24

Press Windows + R key combination (or Option + R keys on Mac keyboard) to launch Run window.

In Open field type cmd, then pressing and holding CTRL key click OK button to launch command prompt with administrator privileges.

Step 25

Type a following command:

cd /Users/XXX/Desktop

where XXX is your Windows user name.

Step 26

We will now download Apple BootCamp software from newer Mac Pro 6,1 (2013) which works better under Windows 11. This will enable brightness OSD display for Apple Cinema Displays, allow to choose startup drive and additional control over Apple keyboard and mouse.

Type a following command:

brigadier -m Mac Pro6,1

where XXX is your Windows user name and confirm it by pressing ENTER key.

Brigadier will download Apple BootCamp software directly from Apple's servers.

Step 27

Once finished type a following command to launch Apple BootCamp software installer (all in one line):

msiexec /i BootCamp-041-98143\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi

Step 28

Once installer launched click Next button to continue and follow on screen instructions to finish the installation.

Step 29

Now we need to prevent newer versions of Apple BootCamp software from being downloaded automatically as only the old version work well under Windows 11. Also there will be some important Wi-Fi module update to be installed.

Type Apple Software Update in search field and click on it to run it.

Step 30

Check the checkbox next to Boot Camp Update only. Make sure Wi-Fi Update for Boot Camp is not selected.

Step 31

Click Tools tab and select Ignore Selected Updates from the list.

Step 32

Now check the checkbox next to Wi-Fi Update for Boot Camp and click Install 1 item button to install it.

Step 33

In order to finish you need to restart your computer. Click Yes button to restart.

Step 34

To launch Apple BootCamp you need to right click gray triangle icon in your tray (sometimes you need to click an arrow to reveal all tray icons) and select Boot Camp Control Panel to launch it.

If you want to stay up to date with all your drivers we recommend running Driver Booster (https://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php) and Driver Easy software (https://www.drivereasy.com).

You can also follow our AMD or NVIDIA driver installation guides to download the latest drivers for your graphics card and get the best performance (depending on which graphics card vendor you have in your system):

Installing NVIDIA drivers under Windows

Installing AMD drivers under Windows

If you have NVIDIA card we recommend following this guide as well:

Setting proper speeds for Mac Pro PCI and PS fans (Mac Pro 4,1 or 5,1 only)

Your Windows 11 on a Mac Pro is now fully working. Enjoy!