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Hi Gang,
Having a heck of a time here. This is my situation. I bought a new 13" Macbook Pro and upgraded the ram to 8gigs and installed a 750gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive and then also installed a second 750gig 7200 RPM hard drive in the DVD slot and took out the DVD Player. I made the second one a windows partition as I was told this can be done. Now, I am trying to bootcamp the second hard drive. It has been partitioned to windows and I was able to choose the drive. I have the DVD player put in as a usb drive and it reads and recognizes it. Now when I hit continue it restarts and goes to a black screen with a white underscore cursor that is blinking. Then nothing. I've let it sit there for 20 minutes or so just to see if anything happens and still nothing.
Here is the thoughts I'm having. First I thought it was because my DVD player was only powered through the usb port so I found another DVD Player that was powered not through the USB. Same results. I have a Windows 7 Upgrade DVD since my previous version was Vista. I'm also trying to instal the 64 bit version since I have 8 gig of ram. I was told it would ask me during the setup for my old version. And that I wouldn't have to buy a new full version. I'm hoping this is the case and I didn't waste 119.00 on an upgrade that can't be used. The only other thing I'm thinking is that because I am not using the DVD Player hooked up in its original form that could be the problem. I guess I really have no clue what to do and just trying to trouble shoot this whole situation. I'm sure it would be easy if I used the same hard drive with the same DVD Player already installed, but hopefully there is a work around to make this work. Thanks for your help in reviewing this and giving advice.
Having a heck of a time here. This is my situation. I bought a new 13" Macbook Pro and upgraded the ram to 8gigs and installed a 750gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive and then also installed a second 750gig 7200 RPM hard drive in the DVD slot and took out the DVD Player. I made the second one a windows partition as I was told this can be done. Now, I am trying to bootcamp the second hard drive. It has been partitioned to windows and I was able to choose the drive. I have the DVD player put in as a usb drive and it reads and recognizes it. Now when I hit continue it restarts and goes to a black screen with a white underscore cursor that is blinking. Then nothing. I've let it sit there for 20 minutes or so just to see if anything happens and still nothing.
Here is the thoughts I'm having. First I thought it was because my DVD player was only powered through the usb port so I found another DVD Player that was powered not through the USB. Same results. I have a Windows 7 Upgrade DVD since my previous version was Vista. I'm also trying to instal the 64 bit version since I have 8 gig of ram. I was told it would ask me during the setup for my old version. And that I wouldn't have to buy a new full version. I'm hoping this is the case and I didn't waste 119.00 on an upgrade that can't be used. The only other thing I'm thinking is that because I am not using the DVD Player hooked up in its original form that could be the problem. I guess I really have no clue what to do and just trying to trouble shoot this whole situation. I'm sure it would be easy if I used the same hard drive with the same DVD Player already installed, but hopefully there is a work around to make this work. Thanks for your help in reviewing this and giving advice.