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Can you boot your computer from a second storage drive in the MBP ?

I don't have to internals but I do boot windows externally. The way I did it was to instal snow leopard on my external and then uses that installation of snow leopard to open bootcamp and set up windows. now I have a 150GB windows 7 partition and a 16Gb snow leopard partition that I keep all of my recovery software on.
 
I´m not on my MBP at the moment but basically you can have your win-partition on either disk0 or disk1 doesnt matter..
when you have 2 working disks formatted to hfs, then you use bootcamp and create a partition on either disk.. you´re making it harder than it is :)
I´m only using 20GB of my apple 128 ssd to windows and the intel is for storing (u need Macdrive in windows to read/write and ntfs-3G in osx to read/write ... a little messy written but u understand
 
Fabricman112 said:
yes i formatted to hfs+ j... the only use in bootcamp is to re-partition fast and easy just drag the bar to what size you want and it´s automated
you dont need to do anything in diskutility
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A screenshot of your Boot Camp Assistant would be very lovely and reassuring. Would help me understand drive selection better. Pretty please ? :)
 
Fabricman112 said:
my wife brought it to work so I cant.. but I can tell you the options are to create or remove a win partition... you cant mess up really
it looks like this http://macs.about.com/od/bootcamp/ss/bootcampassist.htm
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Aww sorry about that, didn't mean to bug you with the screenshot, I wrote the previous post moments after you said you didn't have the computer with you.. :) sorry !

So I contacted my forum buddy alphaod in the morning, from whom I learned much about the newmodeUS caddy in this thread, he just replied to me and this is what he had to say :

BootCamp is simply a partition manager; nothing more; therefore if you have a second drive, just insert your Windows installation disk at boot up, hold option, select it and install. When you get the part that asks you which disk to install it on, just select the second disk.

IF you don't want to the entire second disk for Windows, you can partition it beforehand in Disk Utility as needed before proceeding with the installation. Boot Camp Assistant will only let your partition your primary booting disk, so the only way to partition the second drive is to use Disk Utility.

Just be cautious not to accidentally install over your OS X installation.

If you need anything else, feel free to ask.

Regards.
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What he's saying is that Boot Camp cannot identify any storage drive other than the primary disk but this is the workaround.
 
got a picture from a friend.. he has almost the same MBP as i have
Apple 128SSD and a 80GB SSD (dunno the brand) he also has a 20GB Bootcamp on disk0 so his options are
its in Swedish but it is like i said
 

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Like alphaod said, you don't need the bootcamp utility. Its a useless tool that does the exact SAME thing disk utility does, except with 10x less options.

Just use disk utility to create a partition, easy as pie.
 
I know, I thought he wanted to see if you could partition the 2nd drive with bootcamp... just wanted to show u can :D
 
One last thing guys - I ordered a newmodeUS caddy which doesn't come with a housing for the Superdrive. I just read somewhere that the Apple Superdrive is a different shape than ordinary ones. Anyone knows if this is true ? I'm presently in Germany and wondering will this housing fit ?
 
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dont think the superdrive is differently shaped... since its a slot load in my case the front is very "open"
 
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