Installing WIN7 on a new Harddrive on Macbook Pro 2006
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What exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp and then dual booting with macOS, or, are you trying to turn your 2006 MacBook Pro into a Win machine only?
If it's the latter, you can try installing Windows 7 from an external drive. Not sure it will work though. Also, make sure the version of Windows 7 is the 32 bit version as I don't believe you can install the 64 bit version on that machine.
What exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp and then dual booting with macOS, or, are you trying to turn your 2006 MacBook Pro into a Win machine only?
If it's the latter, you can try installing Windows 7 from an external drive. Not sure it will work though. Also, make sure the version of Windows 7 is the 32 bit version as I don't believe you can install the 64 bit version on that machine.
So, is it possible to install WIN7 thru external DVD writer like samsung Portable DVD Writer? Because I have tried booting the CD using the external drive but unfortunately MacBook Pro doesnt have option for the external drive. I have long pressed the alt key. I hope somebody could help me. Thanks
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You will need to use the internal optical drive to boot off the CD. As a rule, external do not seem to work.
Alternatively, you can download Windows 7 as an .ios file and then burn it to a USB thumb drive, pop in the drive, reboot, hold down Option and it should boot. Go into Utilities and format the drive MS-DOS and proceed. It is necessary to enter the activatipon code tl download the .iso file so it will have to be a code acceptable to Microsoft and not in use on any other m,achine. From experience Microsoft can be pretty touchy about this.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows7
Alternatively, you can download Windows 7 as an .ios file and then burn it to a USB thumb drive, pop in the drive, reboot, hold down Option and it should boot. Go into Utilities and format the drive MS-DOS and proceed. It is necessary to enter the activatipon code tl download the .iso file so it will have to be a code acceptable to Microsoft and not in use on any other m,achine. From experience Microsoft can be pretty touchy about this.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows7
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A 2006 MacBook Pro can boot from a DVD drive if it recognizes the disk as bootable. Like I said above, I'm not sure it will boot from a Win 7 disk.
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