Using BootCamp without disc.

[hippoassassin]

The disc drive on my macbook pro is broken (my sister dropped it and it's cracked, i can't put discs in) i have a external, but you can't run bootable discs on it apparently. I have parallels, but i want to play 3-d games and they can't run on it. Any help would be apriciated

 

[HLdan]

Why can't you run bootable discs on your external optical drive? It should work.

 

[hippoassassin]

Well when i try, i partition the hard drive, and it says put the vista cd in then restart, and when i do (restart) the internal (broken) disc drive makes a sound, then it waits a minute and goes to the normal tiger starting screen.

Is their a way i can make my external disc drive the main one the computer looks for?

 

[cjmillsnun]

Well when i try, i partition the hard drive, and it says put the vista cd in then restart, and when i do (restart) the internal (broken) disc drive makes a sound, then it waits a minute and goes to the normal tiger starting screen.

Is their a way i can make my external disc drive the main one the computer looks for?

Hold down the option/alt button when you hear the boot chime...

Hopefully you should see a boot menu with Mac OSX under a hard disk logo and Windows under a cd logo.

EDIT you're running Tiger? I would strongly suggest upgrading to at least Leopard.

 

[hippoassassin]

I miss-typed, i'm running 10.5.7 normal leopard i believe.

I believe i already tried option and it didn't work. Is there any way to completely de-activate my internal disc drive, making the external the one it looks for?

 

[hippoassassin]

Or is there a way that i wouldn't need a disc.