VittorioZanetti
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Q: Bootcamp without Optical disc drive

Hi everyone. I want to install windows 7 on my iMac 24'' (mid 2008) but my optical disc drive is broken. I tried to install it with an USB flashdrive, but the system don't recognize it as a bootable device. I have the windows 7 ISO, vmware fusion, refit (i searched on the interet for the solution but i couldn't find any). thanks for help !

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 15, 2013 2:12 AM

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  • by Paul_mac_live,

    Paul_mac_live Paul_mac_live Oct 30, 2015 1:37 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 30, 2015 1:37 PM in response to Loner T

    time to report back. It worked! it all did work! Im so happy right now and am very grateful for your help. Weird thing is I have a ghost partition during startup procedure. It says after the alt start up; os x, os x and windows. Only the first os x works. Any idea how to get it out? It doesn't show it in the start up disk under sys preferences. In the gut it shows something  off

     

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=320072933376; sectorsize=512; blocks=625142448

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 625142447

          start       size  index  contents

              0          1         MBR

              1          1         Pri GPT header

              2         32         Pri GPT table

             34          6        

             40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

         409640  387039848      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      387449488    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      388719024       1616                                                            <--- I think this is the ghost partition

      388720640  236421120      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

      625141760        655        

      625142415         32         Sec GPT table

      625142447          1         Sec GPT header

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 30, 2015 2:03 PM in response to Paul_mac_live
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    Oct 30, 2015 2:03 PM in response to Paul_mac_live

    This is usually a sector boundary alignment. It should be fine. Can you post a screen shot of the 'ghost'?

  • by Paul_mac_live,

    Paul_mac_live Paul_mac_live Nov 13, 2015 2:53 PM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 13, 2015 2:53 PM in response to Loner T

    hey loner, havent had the time to do it. Anyway thank cos your help, it works very good. Ill upload asap!

     

    Thanks again for your super duper help!

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 13, 2015 4:40 PM in response to Paul_mac_live
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    Nov 13, 2015 4:40 PM in response to Paul_mac_live

    If your OS X and Windows works, and you have regular backups for both (you do, don't you!) you should be fine.

  • by h_badrani,

    h_badrani h_badrani Apr 24, 2016 4:06 PM in response to HockeyBeast
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    Apr 24, 2016 4:06 PM in response to HockeyBeast

    Hi,

    I had the same problem like you.

     

    I used rufus to make my usb flash drive bootable.

    And it worked.

  • by Alan Solomon2,

    Alan Solomon2 Alan Solomon2 May 2, 2016 9:00 AM in response to Kunu
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    May 2, 2016 9:00 AM in response to Kunu

    Thanks Kunu, this worked for my Mac Mini with non functioning Superdrive

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