Cannot Install Windows 7 on MBP 5,1

[Amr Tarek]

Hey guys,

I have late 2008 MBP with SSD and HDD drives and El captain. my problem is that i cannot install windows on my machine and i have tried the following:

- installed Refind but yet i cannot boot from usb (black screen after press enter)
- i hav modified bootcamp to create bootable usb yet i cannot boot from it.

Can someone help me on this please.

Thanks

 

[chscag]

That's probably because Boot Camp detects that your MacBook Pro has an optical drive and may be looking for a Windows 7 install disk rather than USB. There are work arounds for this. I'm not sure why you have to use reFind to create a dual boot when boot camp should be able to do that for you?

 

[Amr Tarek]

That's probably because Boot Camp detects that your MacBook Pro has an optical drive and may be looking for a Windows 7 install disk rather than USB. There are work arounds for this. I'm not sure why you have to use reFind to create a dual boot when boot camp should be able to do that for you?

can u help me with a work around for this i cannot boot from the usb all i get is blank black screen