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Installing Windows 7 x64 on my MacBook Pro
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<blockquote data-quote="nonme" data-source="post: 1465312" data-attributes="member: 280905"><p>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. </p><p></p><p>However, here's the issue:</p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>I do, however, have Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit on the machine.</p><p></p><p>So what I want to do is install Windows 7 64-Bit <em>without</em> using this superdrive.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nonme, post: 1465312, member: 280905"] 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 [I]without[/I] 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. [/QUOTE]
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