It turns out that my superdrive kind of died, so I'm using an external optical drive. I tried to install Windows 7 from the DVD on my iMac 11,1 using Boot Camp, but after it created the partition and restarted my computer, all that I'd see was a black screen and an error: "No Bootable Device -- Insert boot disk and press any key".
I learned that it's almost impossible to install Windows from an external optical drive, so I created a bootable USB drive using an ISO image of my Windows 7 DVD (and only after doing a lot of tricks into the Boot Camp Assistant plist file). Then I did the same than before: Boot Camp Assistant, Install, Restart, black screen and error.
Then I installed reEFIt, so I pressed alt during the start screen and all that. I tried selecting the USB drive from there, but again I got the damn black screen.
Is there anything else I could try? And please, buying a new superdrive is not an option.
Thanks in advance.
I learned that it's almost impossible to install Windows from an external optical drive, so I created a bootable USB drive using an ISO image of my Windows 7 DVD (and only after doing a lot of tricks into the Boot Camp Assistant plist file). Then I did the same than before: Boot Camp Assistant, Install, Restart, black screen and error.
Then I installed reEFIt, so I pressed alt during the start screen and all that. I tried selecting the USB drive from there, but again I got the damn black screen.
Is there anything else I could try? And please, buying a new superdrive is not an option.
Thanks in advance.