So I just purchased a new 160GB HDD for my macbook in the hopes that I could run windows through boot camp. I threw the new hard drive in an enclosure and formatted it with Mac OS X extended (journaled) with one partition. Now, after swapping the drive out with my old internal drive and trying to run bootcamp, it gives me an error message saying that I need to reformat the drive with a single partition. Why!? I already did that. Do I really have to reinstall the OS and everything? I formatted the new disk via enclosure with Disk Utility and used Carbon Copy Cloner to transfer my old drive to the new drive. Any suggestions?
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If you just put in the disk without installing OSX or putting OSX on it in some way, such as an image from your old HD, then that's your problem. A HD won't JUST work by itself. You need an operating system to go with it.
The HD works fine, it is an image of the old HD. My problem is : When I try to run boot camp assistant, it tells me that my HD won't work and that I need to reformat. However, the drive has been reformatted twice already as a single Mac OS X extended (journaled) volume. What's the deal?