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    Locked myself out of options

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by arvean, Aug 12, 2010.

  1. arvean

    arvean Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    I was wondering if anybody had a similar situation and was willing to share wisdom.

    So I got excited and installed an optibay caddy as a new home for my SSD. I still have the original HDD in its place. I'm trying to install windows7 on the SSD, and keep OSX on the hard drive. I've created a bootable usb flashdrive (using micrsoft's tool) however EFI refuses to boot from it. I read online that MBP doesn't boot from USB unless it's GUID.

    What are my options???
     
    arvean, Aug 12, 2010
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  2. altecX

    altecX Notebook Deity

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    1. get external DVD drive
    2. put DVD Player back in, replace HDD with SSD and install Windows on it, from DVD drive in DVD slot.
     
    altecX, Aug 12, 2010
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    snork Notebook Evangelist

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    To dual-boot easily on a Mac, you need to use the Bootcamp setup tool. I don't have dual hard-drives, but when you select your bootcamp partition location I would think you should be able to select your SSD drive there.
     
    snork, Aug 12, 2010
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  4. arvean

    arvean Notebook Consultant

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    altecX, yeah I guess it's hardware solution only ;)

    Snork, thanks, but that's not what I asked for...
     
    arvean, Aug 13, 2010
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