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PCIe considered external and bootcamp won't install

So I have mid 2012 MacPro tower with an OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 PCIe SSD inside. I would like to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp on this drive, however when I load up bootcamp I am unable to start the install (the option is shaded out and I am unable to select the install option). I've taken a look on the forums however I have found nothing that can fix this, besides the fact that the PCIe is considered external, and bootcamp won't load to an external drive. How do I fix this?

Posted on Jun 29, 2015 7:46 AM

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Jun 29, 2015 8:18 AM in response to James Di Paolo Smith

It also prompts me with the message "You cannot partition an external disk, a RAID disk or an internal disk on which FireVault encryption is in progress" when I load up bootcamp. FireVault is off and the drive is not set to RAID, so I take it the fact that the computer thinks that it is external is the issue. How do I get around this?

Jun 29, 2015 9:49 AM in response to Loner T

Last login: Mon Jun 29 12:44:29 on console

James-Mac-Pro-2:~ jSmith$ diskutil info /dev/disk0

Device Identifier: disk0

Device Node: /dev/disk0

Part of Whole: disk0

Device / Media Name: OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Media


Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system)


Mounted: Not applicable (no file system)


File System: None


Content (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme

OS Can Be Installed: No

Media Type: Generic

Protocol: SATA

SMART Status: Not Supported


Total Size: 479.9 GB (479946997760 Bytes) (exactly 937396480 512-Byte-Units)

Volume Free Space: Not applicable (no file system)

Device Block Size: 512 Bytes


Read-Only Media: No

Read-Only Volume: Not applicable (no file system)

Ejectable: Yes


Whole: Yes

Internal: No

Solid State: No

OS 9 Drivers: No

Low Level Format: Not supported


James-Mac-Pro-2:~ jSmith$

PCIe considered external and bootcamp won't install

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