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- 2008 MacBook Pro 15" - 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo; 4GB RAM
I have an early 2008 MacBook Pro with a 128GB Crucial SSD installed in it. I want to install Windows 7 64-Bit on half of the disk, and the other half Mac OS X Lion.
However, here's the issue:
My superdrive does not work. There is no way for me to boot from a DVD in the internal superdrive. For whatever reason, the drive can only write, it can't read.
I also heard that my model of MacBook Pro does not support booting from a USB stick, even with rEFIt. I also tried an external DVD drive with no luck.
I am willing to open the computer up and hook my SATA connection to a 3rd-party DVD drive, but only as a last resort.
I do, however, have Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit on the machine.
So what I want to do is install Windows 7 64-Bit without using this superdrive.
Before, I was able to get Windows 7 32-bit installed by installing XP then installing 7, but that was before the superdrive stopped working.
However, here's the issue:
My superdrive does not work. There is no way for me to boot from a DVD in the internal superdrive. For whatever reason, the drive can only write, it can't read.
I also heard that my model of MacBook Pro does not support booting from a USB stick, even with rEFIt. I also tried an external DVD drive with no luck.
I am willing to open the computer up and hook my SATA connection to a 3rd-party DVD drive, but only as a last resort.
I do, however, have Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit on the machine.
So what I want to do is install Windows 7 64-Bit without using this superdrive.
Before, I was able to get Windows 7 32-bit installed by installing XP then installing 7, but that was before the superdrive stopped working.