Monday, 14 March 2011

Bootcamp and MacOS hard drive moved to optibay after installation


hey everyone,

had purchased 128gb crucial m4 ssd, installed osx , bootcamp ssd , relocated drive optibay put hdd original bay. osx boots bootcamp doesnt. details on how set up/other issues faced managed overcome follows:

after reading lots on best way proceed setup , minimize issues of installing windows usb, using refit or external optical drive, decided install both mac osx 10.6 , bootcamp ssd before relocating optibay (in mid 2009 mbp).

before relocated ssd optibay, installed updates both mac osx , windows 7 (ultimate, 64-bit if matters). put original hdd original hdd bay , had flashing folder issue. fixed installing refit , removing it. not sure why worked osx boots fine however, when hold alt , select boot windows, blinking cursor. let sit while (more half hour, waste of time, know) still wouldnt boot. have theory might because moved ssd optibay after installing , when booting, machine thinks windows still installed on disk in main bay.

honest, have no idea how mac boots , determines boot etc. dont know how refit works , think lucked out boots osx fine. have advice on how can fix boot thingy can access already-installed-and-work-before-i-moved-the-ssd-to-optibay windows 7?

edit: installed vmware , it's booting fine there.
 

nobody? :(
 


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