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Spare Internal Optical Drive

  • 10-04-2014 12:21pm
    #1
    LandonRicketts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭


    Hey,

    If anyone has a unwanted optical drive for a unibody Macbook Pro can ye let me know. My internal one is knackered and can't install a Windows partition via an External Optical Drive or from a USB stick. Tried every solution but I read that it is written in the BIOS that it can only be installed through an internal optical drive?


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  • #2
    STEINBERG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭STEINBERG


    Do you realy need to do a dual boot or could you not just virtualize it? Using fusion or virtual box. I was dual booting my imac with win7 until i got my hands on vmware fusion, installed win7 from an iso file and never looked back.


  • #3
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure you can create a bootable ISO on a USB stick as long as it's NTFS formatted.

    To get back to the problem, I feel your pain because my optical drive is dead too. Might replace it with an SSD...


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