BCA problems "You cannot partition an external disk drive"
Greetings!
Boot Camp has worked fine for me before, but after last nights clean re-install of my Mac Pro it won't seem to work.
Once I run the Boot Camp Assistant and click the first continue, I get the following error:
*You cannot partition an external disk drive.*
*Restart your computer using your computer's internal startup disk.*
The strange thing being that I only have internal disks, and not even any external disks connected at the time.
I have two 500GB drives in a striped RAID0, and the 250GB drive that came with the Mac Pro that I planned to use as a Windows drive.
All the drives are showing as +"Connection Type: Internal"+ and +"Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table"+ in the Disk Utility.
I have searched for answers on the net, but haven't found anything useful.
There was a guy back in Jan '08 with the same setup and problem ( http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1328805), and the only "solution" he came up with was to disband the RAID and work from there, something I don't want to do.
It would be reasonable to think that I could run a RAID and at the same time use Boot Camp to install Windows on a 3rd drive.
This problem seems to have existed for over a year without any real fixes from Apple, so if someone could provide help in how to do it, or perhaps some sort of workaround, I would be eternally thankful.
Thank you in advance! 🙂
Boot Camp has worked fine for me before, but after last nights clean re-install of my Mac Pro it won't seem to work.
Once I run the Boot Camp Assistant and click the first continue, I get the following error:
*You cannot partition an external disk drive.*
*Restart your computer using your computer's internal startup disk.*
The strange thing being that I only have internal disks, and not even any external disks connected at the time.
I have two 500GB drives in a striped RAID0, and the 250GB drive that came with the Mac Pro that I planned to use as a Windows drive.
All the drives are showing as +"Connection Type: Internal"+ and +"Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table"+ in the Disk Utility.
I have searched for answers on the net, but haven't found anything useful.
There was a guy back in Jan '08 with the same setup and problem ( http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1328805), and the only "solution" he came up with was to disband the RAID and work from there, something I don't want to do.
It would be reasonable to think that I could run a RAID and at the same time use Boot Camp to install Windows on a 3rd drive.
This problem seems to have existed for over a year without any real fixes from Apple, so if someone could provide help in how to do it, or perhaps some sort of workaround, I would be eternally thankful.
Thank you in advance! 🙂
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
