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Running Windows on your Mac
Broken Superdrive, rEFIt not working, external superdrive?
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1057737" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Make sure you buy from a store that will accept returns. I'm not sure that you can install Windows with any kind of external optical drive. The problem that you will run into is that the drivers needed to recognize the drive are not loaded until after Windows boots.</p><p></p><p>It's easy to do on a Win machine because you can set boot devices in the BIOS, however, an Intel Mac uses EFI instead.</p><p></p><p>The only way I know to install Windows with a broken superdrive is to use rEFIt which you've already tried and failed.</p><p></p><p>Let us know.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1057737, member: 46727"] Make sure you buy from a store that will accept returns. I'm not sure that you can install Windows with any kind of external optical drive. The problem that you will run into is that the drivers needed to recognize the drive are not loaded until after Windows boots. It's easy to do on a Win machine because you can set boot devices in the BIOS, however, an Intel Mac uses EFI instead. The only way I know to install Windows with a broken superdrive is to use rEFIt which you've already tried and failed. Let us know. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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