Yesterday, after no end of attempted solutions, I managed to defrag and repartition my Macbook Pro's hard drive - I now have a 40GB NTFS partition waiting for me to install Windows on it.
In order to defrag so I had enough contiguous free space, I reformatted and repartitioned my old 30GB iPod with GUID, installed a bootable maintenance image on it with Carbon Copy Cloner, booted my computer from the iPod and ran a defrag on my laptop's hard drive overnight. It turned out perfectly; there wasn't a single hitch or hassle.
However, it seems I can't install Windows 7 after all... This computer's superdrive has been on the fritz for the longest time. At first it wouldn't burn CDs, then it wouldn't burn DVDs, and now it doesn't seem to recognise burned media at all. It spits my Windows installation disc straight back out at me after churning for 90 seconds or so.
What I want to know: Can I write the Windows 7 ISO to my iPod, boot that up and install Windows 7 onto my Boot Camp partition from it? I attempted to do this myself, but neither Carbon Copy Cloner nor Disk Utility will let me write the ISO to my iPod. They were both fine with the aforementioned utilities image (which is a DMG), but they're both seemingly fussy about doing anything with an ISO. What gives?
(I also have access to a Macbook with XP installed, in case that what I'm asking isn't possible under OS X)
In order to defrag so I had enough contiguous free space, I reformatted and repartitioned my old 30GB iPod with GUID, installed a bootable maintenance image on it with Carbon Copy Cloner, booted my computer from the iPod and ran a defrag on my laptop's hard drive overnight. It turned out perfectly; there wasn't a single hitch or hassle.
However, it seems I can't install Windows 7 after all... This computer's superdrive has been on the fritz for the longest time. At first it wouldn't burn CDs, then it wouldn't burn DVDs, and now it doesn't seem to recognise burned media at all. It spits my Windows installation disc straight back out at me after churning for 90 seconds or so.
What I want to know: Can I write the Windows 7 ISO to my iPod, boot that up and install Windows 7 onto my Boot Camp partition from it? I attempted to do this myself, but neither Carbon Copy Cloner nor Disk Utility will let me write the ISO to my iPod. They were both fine with the aforementioned utilities image (which is a DMG), but they're both seemingly fussy about doing anything with an ISO. What gives?
(I also have access to a Macbook with XP installed, in case that what I'm asking isn't possible under OS X)