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StoB14 Author

Level 1

6 points

Bootable volume on USB flash drive in boot camp

Hello,

I am trying to put Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, and I just got a new USB drive for the Apple windows support software. When I choose the size of what I want to give to the new windows side, and I get a error message saying I can not continue because boot camp assistant needs to disable a "bootable volume" in order to continue. I have the windows 7 disc in my possession so. Can someone please explain what this is and how I can fix this issue? I really need to have windows on my Mac here pretty soon. Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Sep 10, 2014 5:27 PM

31 replies

Loner T

Level 9

59,471 points

Sep 19, 2014 4:44 AM in response to StoB14

You will need to buy one of Vmware Fusion/Parallels/VirtualBox if you want to do that. These can run VMs using the Bootcamp partition, but they can cause battery consumption and high fan speed noise.

Bootable volume on USB flash drive in boot camp

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