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Jessie1209
Feb 11, 2010, 12:27 AM
Hi There,

I have an SSD for my MacBook. It is running Snow Leopard with all the latest updates applied. Everything was great.

I partitioned a 40GB partition for Windows 7 installation by Boot Camp AssistantDisk Partition. It then prompted me to insert a Windows 7 disk and then it restarted.

The tragedy is that when I choose the Windows 7 Ultimate Installation DVD at system boot up, the drive whizzes for a short while and then just seems to hang the system with a grey screen.

No matter what bootable disk I put in the MacBook DVD drive - either CD or DVD, Windows xp or vista neither could work.

The strange thing though, is if I put in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard install DVD, it boots up perfectly fine.

Hardware:
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version(system): 1.31f0

Is anyone able to help me with this issue?
It's the fault of SSD or mac os?

Thanks
Jessie



iLog.Genius
Feb 11, 2010, 01:08 AM
Got to ask, any chance you're installing with pirated versions of Windows? If the SuperDrive can read the OS X install DVD and probably other discs no problems, perhaps the problem lies with those discs only.

Try to insert the discs in OS X and see what mounts on the desktop.

Jessie1209
Feb 11, 2010, 01:31 AM
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Thanks for iLog.Genius.
I tried Windows XP-SP3, Windows 7 Ultimate/ Professional, Windows Vista, all can't work.
All these discs work well on my original HDD.