I installed an apex ssd and I moved the old ssd into my optidrive.I used carboncopy and it worked well, Now I want to use the old ssd to store stuff and to install xp. When I go to disk utility it tells me that"its a start up disk and cant be erased" How can I erase it?
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How do I erase(format)A HD that was used as a starup disk?
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Need to boot up again and hold the option key and select the new boot drive. It sounds like your booting on the old drive. Once you are in the the new drive and running than go to disk utility and erase and partition the old drive.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you NEED Mac OS in order to have windows. You can't have one be OS X and the other JUST be windows.
Your option is to install OSX, then partition while keeping the OSX partition as small as possible.
That sounds like the way to go is partition that second drive in two. Now I am not sure because I don't use windows but can another software program like Fusion or something actually be used on that second drive by itself. Maybe something to look into
