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xxredxpandaxx

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Apr 3, 2013
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I am trying to install windows 8 on my macbook pro 13'' 2012, and when I get to the drive selection screen in the windows installation I keep getting this message.

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."

So I have used three different usb drives (I read somewhere that someone was having a problem with their drive), tried windows 7 also, formatted the drive (where I want to install windows) several times with bootcamp assistant and disk utility, I have tried various things to try to get it to work and it still does not.

So here is a little bit of information on my system if you need it. It is a MacBook Pro 13'' non retina display, running 10.8.3, Mac OS X is on a 180gb ssd, I took out the disk drive and put the 500gb hdd in that spot (that is where I am trying to install windows) I have 16gb of ram installed. I had windows 7 installed a while ago but deleted it so that I could make it bigger. Thats all I can think of if you need any more information please let me know, this is really bothering me.
 
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