I'm wanting to install Windows via Boot Camp onto my MacBook Pro. The
internal DVD drive is dead (very long story). Boot camp expects to find a
Windows install CD in the internal optical drive. Well, that's not going to
happen any time soon.

I have tried having the Windows CD in an external drive (CD/DVD burner via
USB2) - nope. I dumped all the files from the CD onto a USB2 hard drive but
am sure there's more to making a drive bootable - either that or for sure BC
wants that internal drive source. I have tried holding F12 when BC reboots
the machine so as to choose an external USB drive - nope again.

The only other thing I can think to do would be to temporarily replace the
internal drive with one from an iBook or G4 PowerBook. It'd be a PITA and
more than just tearing into those machines. The form factor for the MBP is
such that those drives won't fit. I'd just have an "expanded" MBP for as long
as it took to get the job done.

Does any one think this last has a chance?

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Tim
lance_1012@hotmail.com

"Tim Lance" <see.sig@bottom.com> wrote in message
news:3vWdnSNqyaF3pYnYnZ2dnUVZ_qSdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
What about removing the hard drive and installing XP onto it from
another system?

Steve

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:12:53 -0500, Steven de Mena wrote
(in article <u_WdnfGIt8SY4YnYnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@comcast.com>):


I hadn't thought of that, most likely because I have no access to any other
Intel Mac and best I can tell the flow is part and parcel of Boot Camp. OTOH,
it's worth a try as the partition is just sitting there.

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Tim
lance_1012@hotmail.com