I will be installing a second hard drive in place of my optical drive (MBP) but I don't have the adapter yet.
Can I create a 30GB partition on the 750GB drive while it's in a USB housing, use Bootcamp to install Win7, then later install it as a second drive and still boot to Windows from it?
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
The problem you have is that Windows can't be installed on external drives. If you connect the internal hard drive with an enclosure, your MacBook Pro will detect it as an external drive and it won't allow you to install Windows
Ah, yes. That makes sense. That's ok; I was just being bored and thoght I'd do it ahead of time, but I can wait!
Thank you,
-t
You are welcome
I received the kit today, but have run into a snag: I used BCA to create the windows partion on the second drive, but Windows will not install to it because it says that the BIOS does not support booting from it.
Is there a way to get this to work? I really don't want to use any of my primay drive space (SSD) for BootCamp.
EDIT: From the bootcamp FAQ:
Q If I have more than one hard drive, can I install Microsoft Windows on any drive?
A You can use Boot Camp to install Windows on any internal hard drive, but not on an external hard drive.
I wonder why that's not working for me.
I think I know why it is ... since the second drive is connected to the internal connector for the optical drive, the computer is probably not quite seeing it properly in regards to it being a truly bootable hard drive. So I may still have to place the Boot Camp partition on my SSD.
Man, if I could get one little thing to work properly in Parallels, I wouldn't even need a Boot Camp partition. Maybe I'll have another go at that first.
travisbarth wrote:
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Man, if I could get one little thing to work properly in Parallels, I wouldn't even need a Boot Camp partition. Maybe I'll have another go at that first.
I use Parallels quite heavily in my engineering work and have
been quite successful with XP, 7, and now Win8 (skipped the
Vista disaster) and also Fedora Linux. What is the "one little thing"
that is the issue?
Well ... a game. :-) A few years ago I was the IT Administrator for two medical universities and used Fusion since we were a VMware shop. (fully vertualized server infrastructure) I've since switched to Parallels for various reasons now that I only need a VM for personal use.
I play an old game, 11 years old now, and I do a lot of 'modding' for it. For some reason charactor textures (cloathing textrues) don't appear ... characters are simply pure black which is what a model looks like if you don't put a texture on it at all.
This prevents me from doing some of the work that I want to do, so I end up having to do the work exclusively on my gaming PC. For the odd times I travel, I like to be able to work on, or play, the game and a VM is perfect for it. Except for the missing texture issue.
So the only reason I need boot camp at all is for a decade-old came that you can buy for $5 online. :-) But I play it and work on it a lot.
Oh, and the mission editing tool for the game hates the virtualized mouse. Trying to track around in the 3D environment just spins like mad.
So in the VM I cannot mod missions and I can't see character textures. Those are the two things I'd have to address to be able to forgo Boot Camp.
Bootcamp W7 to USB, the install same drive as second HDD in MBP?
