The reason why you don't hear much about this problem is because most people with Macbooks are installing their boot camp partition on the same HDD as their Mac OS, with the built-in superdrive. The fact is that Windows itself cannot be installed from an external CD drive, nor can it be installed on an external HDD. The problem is not your machine, Mac OSX, the boot camp installer, or even your Windows installation disks. Recently I wanted a similar setup for my own '11 Macbook, and after much research and trial/error, I was able to get it to work. This worked for me and its a lot of steps and swapping of drives a couple of times, but it works like a charm.
So am i right to say my problem is the same as urs? that windows cannot be booted up using an external optical drive, even if that optical drive was from my original mbp's? and in that case, should i put back my optical drive, install the stuff on my ssd first, and then take out the optical drive and place the hdd back into the optibay? thanks for all the help i can get guys.will really appreciate it.īack in April, when I first got my 2011 Macbook Pro, I ran into this same exact problem and wrote the the following in another post. however on my pc, it does the installation fine. however when the mac rebooted, it just goes to a black screen and stays there. was also trying to install windows 7 through bootcamp using the external optical drive. Using external optical drive with the usb enclosure that maxupgrades provided. I have an ssd which is now in my original hard drive position and the hard drive is in my optical drive position. Hopefully you guys are able to respond and give some advice whether I should go ahead and do the same thing as u did,dmw16. In the end I saved myself HOURS of messing around by just putting the superdrive back into the Macbook Pro, installing boot camp using the internal superdrive, and then taking it out again.ĭamnit!! i am so frustrated now have been searching for hours how to get my problem resolved, which i think is the same as yours, i believe. something about no bootable disc or drive or something. The Macbook Air w/o external superdrive guide (the one using rEFIt) didn't work for me on the MBP either, I kept getting an error message, don't remember what it said exactly.
I wouldn't waste your time on this, and just try doing it another time. That's the general consensus I found anyway, obviously I haven't tested all external DVD drives on all setups, but judging from many forum posts complaining about the same problem it seems to be true. Seems Apple did something special to the firmware or something that lets it work. Even on PC's.Īpparently the only DVD drive that will boot Windows is the Macbook Air external super drive, and then, ONLY on the Macbook Air, not on the MBP. It turns out: Windows won't boot from an external DVD drive. I've spent DAYS trying to figure this out.
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