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Cjtec123

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Feb 6, 2015
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Boot Camp Installation Issues:
I have a macbook pro late 2011 15”
I have removed my cd drive and have a second hard drive in its place. I am trying to install windows on the drive in the cd drive position.
After My boot camp setup I would get an error during the reboot stating “No bootable device”. I solved this issue by shutting down and holding option “alt” during the reboot. I am presented with a screen “Macintosh HD”, “Recovery 10.10”, “EFI Boot”, and a second “EFI Boot” with a flash drive symbol above it, i clicked that one. I also got another error stating that my bootcamp drive is not in a supported format, i fixed this by pressing shift, F10 and it brought up a cmd line witch i typed "diskpart" "list disk" "select (drive number)" "convert gpt". I go though the installation to the part right before it reboots and I get another error, this error is one of two things. “ Windows cannot change boot configuration” or “Windows could not prepare to boot into the second phase of the install.” I probably called support 50 times and no solution. If anyone has a clue on how to fix this please share I’ve been researching for days and I found nothing.
 
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I have removed my cd drive and have a second hard drive in its place. I am trying to install windows on the drive in the cd drive position.

You need to put Windows on the disk that's in the native location, rather than on the disk in the DVD bay.
 
Okay, would it be a good idea to make a small partition on my normal drive and use the cd drive one as extra storage.
 
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