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8/23/12 at 6:21pm
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Hey guys

I have a mid 2010 15" MacBook pro and have ordered a optical drive bay caddy and an SSD for the caddy so I will have 2 HD's in my machine.

Now to my question. I currently have a 120gb windows 7 partition via boot camp on my current 500GB HD. However, I want to use the SSD just to run windows and delete bootcamp from the original HD to just run 10.8 mountain lion.

Problems I foresee.

1. You need an internal optical drive to install windows on my any internal drive. I can just take out the original hd and leave in the optical drive and put the SSD in the normal HD place, format and install windows. Obviously I wont be able to use boot camp as my osx drive won't be in there. What are the ways around this??

2. What partition scheme would my SSD need to be if I was to bypass using boot camp and just installed windows on the SSD as I would with any pc? Will there be any issues doing this? I understand I would have no drivers for things like airport/Bluetooth etc as these come with boot camp? I have a windows 7 disk and the boot camp drivers saved on a CD.

If anyone knows a guide or could give me a hand to do this I would be greatful.

Just to reiterate. I want 2 HD's in my MacBook pro. The original 500GB running mac OSX and the 120GB SSD running windows 7. I still have my internal optical drive with Sata cable for the install and a copy of windows 7 on a DVD disc.

Many thanks for any responses

Paul
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8/30/12 at 10:10am
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I'm in the same boat, but I want to run 10.8 off the SSD and Windows off the original HDD. Mine is a MBP mid 2012 (non retina)

I first added the SSD to the caddy, and tried to install OSX, but I found out I couldn't get the SSD to partition itself to the HFS+ filesystem. I then swapped them around so that the SSD was the main drive, and then it worked flawlessly. Now I'm trying to get Windows 7 on the second drive, but when I try this I get an 0x80300024 error, saying Windows can't be installed on this partition for some unapparent reason.

When I disconnect the SSD though, Windows installs just fine, but as soon as I reconnect it again I get a 'No boot device available' error. WTH? GPT or MBR doesn't make any difference at all, either.
Somehow it seems like the Macbook only accepts one drive as boot volume at a time frown.gif

I'll be getting a 256GB SSD tomorrow or monday, so I think my best bet is to just dualboot OS X and Windows from that same drive, and use the HDD purely for storage purposes.... Unless someone else has a luminous idea smile.gif


By the way, if you still want to use your SuperDrive, I was able to get an USB2 enclosure for it for €25,- Looks just like the official one. Maybe you can find something similar somewhere. I got mine from www.hddcaddy.nl, but they're out of stock at the moment.
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8/30/12 at 10:18am
Op...this isnt a solution the way you want it...but what Radeon is saying is what my preference would be. SSD for both OS's and the hdd for shared storage. That way, you get good access to your media. i would also keep a folder on the hdd for apps as an install location for both OS's. I'd even prefer a three-way partition. One for mac apps, one for windows apps, and one big one for shared media.
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I'd create one big exFAT partition if it wasn't for iTunes which can't play from that very well (i.e. 2-3 second lag before a song starts to play)
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