I need help.
I picked up a used Macbook Pro Retina (15"), last month, and I gave my old Mac to my Mother, as she needed a computer, and I wanted the Retina Display. After she used it for a week or two, she became frustrated with OS X, and wanted to go back to Windows, which I can understand. So I figured that this would be a simple process.
So I installed a clean copy of Mavericks on the 2011 Macbook Pro, and fired up Bootcamp. Because this is an Optibay'ed machine I had to use Roxio to trick Bootcamp into thinking there was a disk. After I created the partition, I went to my Retina Mac and wiped an old external HD I had lying around and used that to create the Windows 7 Installer, using the Bootcamp USB Installer, on the retina. After when I tried to get the 2011 Mac to boot it just said it couldn't find the drive. I tried this process twice, with the same result.
Next I tried to get Boot Camp Assistant on the 2011 Mac to create the USB installer. I removed the previous partition, and I edited the plist, and it worked. The 2011 Mac gave me the option to create the USB installer, and Boot said installer, and as I stated earlier, I did everything from stratch. But I got the same error, the computer wouldn't boot into the external drive, but when I put that drive into the Retina Mac it booted without issues. For reference here is the thread that I used: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23831358#23831358
After that I tried to use Vmware to Install the OS. I followed the following guide 8na.de/?p=124 and I got the Windows installer to copy the files to the BootCamp partition and I closed VMware when the VM said it was done copying files and about to reboot. When I killed the VM, I shut down the 2011 Mac, and tried to boot into the Windows OS, but I got a corrupted BSD/bootloader error, so I tried to use the USB Installer to boot into the repair, but again it wouldn't boot. I then tried to use the VM to repair the boot loader, but all it does once it finished the repair and I reboot into the partition using the option key is give me a slowly blinking underscore. Oddly enough, if I let the VM continue the install it completes it and it only boots in the VM, and if I try and use the bootcamp boot feature in VMware, it give me the same underscore slowly blinking.
So now I am very lost, I don't think there is an issue with my partitions, because I when I checked the 2011 Mac, and compared it to the Reitna Mac apart from sizes its seems okay. But I will post it below if it helps. My main goal is to have Windows, for this computer OS X is NOT important, but any version of Windows is required, and I would rather not have to deal with VMware, as my mother is not that tech literate, due to school I won't always be around to help her.
Thank you for any help,
macfan74318
I picked up a used Macbook Pro Retina (15"), last month, and I gave my old Mac to my Mother, as she needed a computer, and I wanted the Retina Display. After she used it for a week or two, she became frustrated with OS X, and wanted to go back to Windows, which I can understand. So I figured that this would be a simple process.
So I installed a clean copy of Mavericks on the 2011 Macbook Pro, and fired up Bootcamp. Because this is an Optibay'ed machine I had to use Roxio to trick Bootcamp into thinking there was a disk. After I created the partition, I went to my Retina Mac and wiped an old external HD I had lying around and used that to create the Windows 7 Installer, using the Bootcamp USB Installer, on the retina. After when I tried to get the 2011 Mac to boot it just said it couldn't find the drive. I tried this process twice, with the same result.
Next I tried to get Boot Camp Assistant on the 2011 Mac to create the USB installer. I removed the previous partition, and I edited the plist, and it worked. The 2011 Mac gave me the option to create the USB installer, and Boot said installer, and as I stated earlier, I did everything from stratch. But I got the same error, the computer wouldn't boot into the external drive, but when I put that drive into the Retina Mac it booted without issues. For reference here is the thread that I used: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23831358#23831358
After that I tried to use Vmware to Install the OS. I followed the following guide 8na.de/?p=124 and I got the Windows installer to copy the files to the BootCamp partition and I closed VMware when the VM said it was done copying files and about to reboot. When I killed the VM, I shut down the 2011 Mac, and tried to boot into the Windows OS, but I got a corrupted BSD/bootloader error, so I tried to use the USB Installer to boot into the repair, but again it wouldn't boot. I then tried to use the VM to repair the boot loader, but all it does once it finished the repair and I reboot into the partition using the option key is give me a slowly blinking underscore. Oddly enough, if I let the VM continue the install it completes it and it only boots in the VM, and if I try and use the bootcamp boot feature in VMware, it give me the same underscore slowly blinking.
So now I am very lost, I don't think there is an issue with my partitions, because I when I checked the 2011 Mac, and compared it to the Reitna Mac apart from sizes its seems okay. But I will post it below if it helps. My main goal is to have Windows, for this computer OS X is NOT important, but any version of Windows is required, and I would rather not have to deal with VMware, as my mother is not that tech literate, due to school I won't always be around to help her.
Thank you for any help,
macfan74318
