Bootcamp Mavericks SSHD

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Bootcamp Mavericks SSHD

Opened new hard drive.
Partitioned it into OSX 250Gb, My MacFiles 250Gb, Free Space 500Gb
SuperDupered a "Clean Mavericks 10.9.5" onto OSX 250Gb.

Opened BootCamp to install, ERROR MESSAGE "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition."
***?? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203913 (among others)

I repartitioned to ONE partition OSX 1000Gb (and EFI partition) GUID Partition HFS+ (journaled)
My Disk Utility has been altered to Show ALL partitions, including normally hidden ones.

Seagate Laptop SSHD 1Tb Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive STBD1000400

Is not a normal hard drive, my suspicion is that this drive is incompatible with BootCamp on Mavericks.

Posted on Jan 26, 2017 3:46 AM

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Answer 1

David Anders Author

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Jan 27, 2017 8:40 AM in response to Loner T

Yes

The drivers for Win include "Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide.pdf"

Page 5

If You Have Problems Creating a Partition

If you have problems creating a Windows partition, check the following:

Â Your Mac’s disk must be a single partition, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
If the disk already has more than one partition, you must repartition it.
Â Your Mac’s disk must be an internal disk. You cannot use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on an external disk.

Â If your Mac has more than one internal disk and you want to install Boot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lower numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp.

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Answer 2

David Anders Author

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Jan 26, 2017 9:52 AM in response to Loner T

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ ron$ diskutil list

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS OSX 999.9 GB disk1s2

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ ron$ diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

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Answer 3

David Anders Author

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Jan 26, 2017 6:23 PM in response to David Anders

The reason is - BootCamp will ONLY install on internal drives. (or so it seems)

The drive I was using was firewire, 1Tb, GUID partition, 1 HFS+ (journaled)
It had Mavericks installed, booting from this drive, starting Bootcamp gave the error "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition."

The internal drive had two partitions.

The hint came not from ANY Apple documentation, but a third party website that explained if you have two internal drives Bootcamp will ask which to install on.

Software documentation, ya gotta love it.

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