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Unable to Install Windows 8 on secondary Hard Disk

Hello,

I have a Macbook Pro 17" i7 2,2 Ghz (early 2011 OSX 10.9.4) equipped with a 750 Gb Samsung SSD and a Secondary 750 Gb Toshiba HHD mounted in place of the Original Laptop's DVD optical Drive.

I've tried several times to Install Windows 8.0 into the Secondary HHD Drive (USB KEY created with a Windows 8.1 Iso Image through the Bootcamp assistent) but without success. This is the message at the end of the Windows 8.1 installation process:

"Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed."

PLEASE HELP ME!!!

I've tried Everything but now I Don't Know what else to do!!!

Posted on Aug 28, 2014 12:02 PM

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Loner T

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Sep 13, 2014 6:48 AM in response to calojer

One suggestion would be to use a single-disk Mac to install W8.1 and swap the Toshiba HDD. The other option is to use Winclone.

Sep 29, 2014 4:48 AM in response to calojer

Hi!

It's great to hear you've been able to achieve it! I am planning on doing it soon.

Just one question, did you use the whole drive to install windows or just used a partition? Because I don´t really want to use the whole space on my optibay drive for windows, just 150gb or so and use the rest as storage for files, iTunes library and so on.

Also, if I can do it in a partition, is it possible for both windows and mac to access those files? I am doing this whole windows thing to install a program that is not available on mac, but can import files from other software I do use on my mac, so I will be working with those files on my mac and when I need that specific program I would switch to windows and open those files.

Unable to Install Windows 8 on secondary Hard Disk