Dear Users,
I hope someone can grant me the answer I am looking for.
To start off ny issue, I had a macbook pro 2012 with a 500g standard hd. Now I purchased win7 , created a partition (split disk in 2 even partitions) and installed win7 on the bootcamp partition. Worked completely fine.
Now I decided to install a 512gb SSD as my main disk running OSX. I took out my cd drive and placed the old hd in its place (running windows). So I deleted the osx partition of that windows drive. So in this case I had a 500g hd using only 250g for my windows.
I wanted to use the full capacity of that disk. So what I did is a week ago, I purchased a physical copy of windows 8. My thoughts were, format the old hd and use it completely to install win8 on it.
Now formatted the hd, went to my ssd, ran bootcamp and it restarted booting from the win8 cd. I followed a few steps untill I came to decide which disk win8 should be installed on: Issue 1: I couldn;t select any disk, so I selected the bootcamp disk (hd) formatted it but still continue was grayed out for me. I view issues and it said : Can;t select the disk for the operating system, enable disk controller in the BIOS. This is weird, since macbooks do not have a BIOS?
after screwing around trying to fix this, I desperately gave up on win8 .... ( I still want this to work so if any1 has got some ideas? couldn't find any way to fix this on google).
Now I just wanted my old setup back, which means having win7 on the old hd , built in along side in my mbp. But suddenly when I boot from my win7 cd I get a black screen with a flashing white dash....
I googled around people saying I need to fix my MBR. How to do this on a mac which does not boot from windows disks?
And most importantly , how do I get windows (pref win8) running AGAIN on my MBP?
Any help will be much appreciated!!!!!
Joey
I hope someone can grant me the answer I am looking for.
To start off ny issue, I had a macbook pro 2012 with a 500g standard hd. Now I purchased win7 , created a partition (split disk in 2 even partitions) and installed win7 on the bootcamp partition. Worked completely fine.
Now I decided to install a 512gb SSD as my main disk running OSX. I took out my cd drive and placed the old hd in its place (running windows). So I deleted the osx partition of that windows drive. So in this case I had a 500g hd using only 250g for my windows.
I wanted to use the full capacity of that disk. So what I did is a week ago, I purchased a physical copy of windows 8. My thoughts were, format the old hd and use it completely to install win8 on it.
Now formatted the hd, went to my ssd, ran bootcamp and it restarted booting from the win8 cd. I followed a few steps untill I came to decide which disk win8 should be installed on: Issue 1: I couldn;t select any disk, so I selected the bootcamp disk (hd) formatted it but still continue was grayed out for me. I view issues and it said : Can;t select the disk for the operating system, enable disk controller in the BIOS. This is weird, since macbooks do not have a BIOS?
after screwing around trying to fix this, I desperately gave up on win8 .... ( I still want this to work so if any1 has got some ideas? couldn't find any way to fix this on google).
Now I just wanted my old setup back, which means having win7 on the old hd , built in along side in my mbp. But suddenly when I boot from my win7 cd I get a black screen with a flashing white dash....
I googled around people saying I need to fix my MBR. How to do this on a mac which does not boot from windows disks?
And most importantly , how do I get windows (pref win8) running AGAIN on my MBP?
Any help will be much appreciated!!!!!
Joey