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Bossboss

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Feb 25, 2011
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Has anyone found a way to install windows 7 bootcamp from lion using a USB with a ssd + optibay setup?

:confused:
 

Fry-man22

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Nov 25, 2007
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Has anyone found a way to install windows 7 bootcamp from lion using a USB with a ssd + optibay setup?

:confused:

I could never get windows to install from a USB drive on snow leopard with my setup, on either drive.
 

Bossboss

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Feb 25, 2011
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There's a longish thread about it here, with different ways mentioned: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/971169/ :)

those links show how to install it prior to lion. im asking if anyone has been able to do this specifically on lion.

i have rEFIt installed, and a bootcamp partition ready to go with my windows 7 64bit loaded on a bootable flash drive. every time i load the usb through refit it just says non-disk. please insert bootable disk or whatever...

anyone?
 

seong

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Feb 11, 2010
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Strangely enough, I get the blinking cursor that looks like underscore: _
It keeps blinking without ever stopping. I think it has to do with the way Lion partitions it's own hard drive for Recovery HD, or it just doesn't want to install Windows 7 from USB. I've followed this instruction: Youtube Link
I get to the part where it says I can choose the usb drive, and when I do, that underscore thing keeps blinking. Nothing at all. Any fixes?
 

takamine

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Dec 24, 2007
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Brisbane
Strangely enough, I get the blinking cursor that looks like underscore: _
It keeps blinking without ever stopping. I think it has to do with the way Lion partitions it's own hard drive for Recovery HD, or it just doesn't want to install Windows 7 from USB. I've followed this instruction: Youtube Link
I get to the part where it says I can choose the usb drive, and when I do, that underscore thing keeps blinking. Nothing at all. Any fixes?

Same problem here for me. I spent the whole day trying to install Windows 7 on my Bootcamp partition (partitioned with Disk Utility) and still can't do it.

I've tried using Parallels to install Windows 7 on the bootcamp partition, changing the MBR through terminal and repairing it in Parallels again but still nothing. I even screwed up the MBR change in terminal too, which resulted in total data loss of my Lion partition (screwed the partition up, had to rebuild it with Disk Warrior). I couldn't recover my files probably because of Lion's awesome encryption. I've decided to leave encryption off until I find a way to get Bootcamp on again :(
 

seong

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Feb 11, 2010
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Stay tuned or post any new finding on my threads too. I've found some information about Boot Camp Assistant 4.0 and 4.0.1.
 

whooda4

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May 14, 2011
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When I had lion installed I installed win 7 no problem. I have the optibay(for now) and it went without a hitch.

I did have to select the boot order, just held down option and turned it on. Selected the win 7 disk and that was it. It took much longer for the option screen to come up. Almost 45 seconds but it did.

2010 mbp. I nuked it and went back to snow leopard so no longer have lion. But when I did I constantly switched between win7 and 10.7
 

ArmanUV

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Jul 15, 2010
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What about formatting the HD with MBR and restoring the Win7 ISO to a small partition? Does anyone know if this works?
 
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