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May 21, 2015 1:33 PM in response to Loner Tby Mortandos,Any idea on how to proceed? I am still stuck and want to give another try this coming weekend.
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May 21, 2015 2:19 PM in response to Mortandosby Loner T,Is it possible to get a working internal Optical drive on the iMac, install Windows on the 1TB disk, with a small OSX partition, and then install the SSD?
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May 21, 2015 3:26 PM in response to Loner Tby Mortandos,No, I'm one of those people where the Super Drive started acting weird after updating from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Ever since then it is messed up. A lot of people seem to have that problem.
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May 21, 2015 4:14 PM in response to Mortandosby Mortandos,Is there any way to mirror / copy a working VM Parallels Desktop virtual disk (Windows) to my internal Hard Drive (since I can use that completely for Windows because I boot Yosemite from my external SSD)?
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May 21, 2015 5:43 PM in response to Mortandosby Loner T,A VM (using any virtualization) does not need BCA and hence there are no restrictions for the installation. You can install Windows using a VM engine from an ISO of Windows.
Can I suggest a test for you SuperDrive? Temporarily set you System Date to sometime in 2007-2008 and test your SuperDrive again?
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May 21, 2015 6:17 PM in response to Loner Tby Mortandos,changing the date didn't help. You meant just change it and then try so not reboot again?!
Regarding the VM - I might not have explained it right, I have Parallels Desktop with an existing Windows VM and I was wondering whether I can copy / mirror / convert it to my internal hard disk and then boot from it (simply because of performance reasons assuming that Boot Camp is faster than Parallels.
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May 21, 2015 6:26 PM in response to Mortandosby Loner T,If you change the date, please ensure you are not syncing time with an external NTP server. Reboot is fine. Check your system date, it should be in 2007-2008.
There is no method to convert a VM Virtual Disk to a Bootcamp Partition. However, if you use Windows Backup/Restore and back up your Windows VM installation, and install Bootcamp Windows, you can try a restore of your Windows backup to the BC Partition. In your case, you are unable to install Windows in the first place due to your Optical drive issue.
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May 22, 2015 5:20 PM in response to Loner Tby Mortandos,Changing the date didn't help.
So I have a USB stick with Windows 8 but I cannot boot from it (my MAC won't find it). Maybe formatted wrong (the stick)?!
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May 22, 2015 5:48 PM in response to Mortandosby Loner T,Have you used Rufus USB - https://rufus.akeo.ie ?
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May 22, 2015 6:06 PM in response to Loner Tby Mortandos,no, I followed the instructions (method 2 on page 2 of this thread, Kuzu) - the only difference is that I used Windows 8 instead of 7
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May 26, 2015 1:46 PM in response to Mortandosby Loner T,Do you want to consider installing Windows on the MacBook and then cloning it using cloning tools to you iMac?
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May 26, 2015 2:02 PM in response to Loner Tby Mortandos,It's not my Mac Book so I have to ask. I guess this can be done without any harm for his files?
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May 26, 2015 2:12 PM in response to Mortandosby Loner T,Yes. After you install Windows on Macbook, you can use a third-party tool like Winclone (or CampTune) and backup the Windows image, 'generalize' it (it will remove the Macbook-specific BC drivers) and then restore it to the iMac. Once it iw working on your iMac, it can be removed using BCA from the Macbook.
To use Winclone, you can look at https://twocanoes.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203444057-Boot-Camp-Migration-Ov erview.