I have a MacBook Pro that I put an SSD in and I am currently running OSX only. Is it possible that I put a second harddrive into the CD drive bay with Windows 7 and partition it in a way that I can dual boot Windows and OSX while using the second partition on the hard drive in the CD bay as more storage space for OSX?
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sure... partition the drive with NTFS for Windows, an then exFAT for a data partition, and both Windows and OSX will be able to fully read/write to the exFAT data partition.
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Awesome! Thanks bunches!
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masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
it sounds like you want to dual boot from drive #1 and use drive #2 as storage for both-
if this is the case, just to be a bit more clear, you want to use bootcamp to partition drive #1 and install windows, and then manually partition drive #2 as exfat. -
The windows OS should be installed on the secondary HDD
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saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate
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I don't remember doing anything unusual to get it setup that way.
I had it setup that way for years and loved it. Since then, I've upgrade the primary drive to a big samsung 830 500GB ssd. Then I reorganized everything:
OSX and BOOTCAMP on two seperate partitions of the 500GB ssd. And my data now goes to my optibay 500GB hdd.
But again, up to about 6 months ago or so I had bootcamp all alone on it's own optibay drive with OSX all alone on the primary.
Dual booting from 2 HDDs
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by azn4lif3s, Mar 9, 2013.