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Boot Camp Assistant Nightmare!
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1515367" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>OK, thanks for posting back.</p><p></p><p>As I stated above, you can not install Windows on the drive that you placed in the optical slot. Windows does not consider that as an internal drive and will refuse to install. Not a Mac thing... blame that on Microsoft since it's part of their anti-piracy scheme. The download link you referred to is a legal link by Digital River and Microsoft.</p><p></p><p>The other problem you're going to run into is that your Mac is normally equipped with an optical drive. Boot Camp assumes Windows can be installed via the optical drive and not from a flash drive. Newer Macs without an optical drive have no problem whatsoever installing Windows from a flash drive via Boot Camp.</p><p></p><p>There's probably a work around for what you're trying to do. Google around to see if you can find one. Also try the link Harry provided above to see if you can make a bootable USB flash drive. However, you still may not be able to install Windows even if you're successful. You'll have to give it a try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1515367, member: 46727"] OK, thanks for posting back. As I stated above, you can not install Windows on the drive that you placed in the optical slot. Windows does not consider that as an internal drive and will refuse to install. Not a Mac thing... blame that on Microsoft since it's part of their anti-piracy scheme. The download link you referred to is a legal link by Digital River and Microsoft. The other problem you're going to run into is that your Mac is normally equipped with an optical drive. Boot Camp assumes Windows can be installed via the optical drive and not from a flash drive. Newer Macs without an optical drive have no problem whatsoever installing Windows from a flash drive via Boot Camp. There's probably a work around for what you're trying to do. Google around to see if you can find one. Also try the link Harry provided above to see if you can make a bootable USB flash drive. However, you still may not be able to install Windows even if you're successful. You'll have to give it a try. [/QUOTE]
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