Greetings, rumoured people!
Seeing the harddrive on my trusted first-gen MacBook Pro go up in flames (literally, and almost physically) made me realize that today is a good day to start posting on Macrumors
With almost all of my important production work in the cloud, my real fear of having to re-install my systems is that I was one of the unlucky few to receive a first-gen MBP with a faulty CD/DVD drive. For reasons as complicated as they are silly, I never turned it in for a replacement during the warranty window. (My clouded mind's principles against using physical media might also play into this )
While OS X is a breeze to install by imaging one of my harddrives after a dvd image of the Snow Leopard install disc, Windows is trickier. I've read the USB Flash Windows installation thread here, and it seems that there are no clear answers to my conundrum in there.
Does anyone know of ANY way to install Windows on a MacBook Pro with a broken CD/DVD drive?
Through Parallells in OS X, perhaps?
By connecting an external CD/DVD drive? Will my MBP be able to boot from a Windows DVD in an external drive? (I recall that during the Windows installation process, no USB connections worked, among them my external keyboard, so I figured that once we reboot into the Windows installer, we leave all drivers behind.)
By physically modeling an empty Windows partition after a full Windows install?
I figured that if any group of people can help me, it would be the forum(or)ites of Macrumors
Seeing the harddrive on my trusted first-gen MacBook Pro go up in flames (literally, and almost physically) made me realize that today is a good day to start posting on Macrumors
With almost all of my important production work in the cloud, my real fear of having to re-install my systems is that I was one of the unlucky few to receive a first-gen MBP with a faulty CD/DVD drive. For reasons as complicated as they are silly, I never turned it in for a replacement during the warranty window. (My clouded mind's principles against using physical media might also play into this
)While OS X is a breeze to install by imaging one of my harddrives after a dvd image of the Snow Leopard install disc, Windows is trickier. I've read the USB Flash Windows installation thread here, and it seems that there are no clear answers to my conundrum in there.
Does anyone know of ANY way to install Windows on a MacBook Pro with a broken CD/DVD drive?
Through Parallells in OS X, perhaps?
By connecting an external CD/DVD drive? Will my MBP be able to boot from a Windows DVD in an external drive? (I recall that during the Windows installation process, no USB connections worked, among them my external keyboard, so I figured that once we reboot into the Windows installer, we leave all drivers behind.)
By physically modeling an empty Windows partition after a full Windows install?
I figured that if any group of people can help me, it would be the forum(or)ites of Macrumors
