- #INSTALL NEW HARD DRIVE MACBOOK PRO WINCLONE INSTALL#
- #INSTALL NEW HARD DRIVE MACBOOK PRO WINCLONE UPGRADE#
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001servicesLSI_SASĪfter applying my changes, I rebooted and started up Boot Camp. I made a copy of my current hard drive with the Super Duper program by placing my new hard drive into an external shell and connecting it via usb.
#INSTALL NEW HARD DRIVE MACBOOK PRO WINCLONE UPGRADE#
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesIntelIde I have a 2009 model Macbook Pro 13' and I just recently decided to upgrade my hard drive to the Seagate Momentus 500g 7200rpm model. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesIAtapi In order to correct the registry, I went back into VMware Fusion and edited the following registry keys from within my VM: Boot Camp wanted to use SATA (hence the error). When I installed Windows using VMware, my drive got configured in the registry for IDE. I discovered that this particular error (0x0000007b) is caused by a set of registry entries that Windows uses to determine the correct interface for accessing the hard drive. After rebooting into Windows, my screen froze up during the Windows startup animation. The next step was getting my MacBook to boot into Windows natively. Setting up the VM took a little bit of work but once I got it booting, installing Windows was easy. Winclone can set this up for you if you’re patient enough to image the drive and then immediately restore after performing a fresh install. If your Mac isn’t already on, boot from your old hard drive Using Disk Utility format your new hard drive. The Steps Plug your new hard drive into your Mac, using whatever connector you have. *NOTE* This post assumes that your secondary drive has the correct partitions configured for Boot Camp to show Windows in the EFI boot menu. WinClone The developer seems to have dropped off of the face of the earth, but you can still download the WinClone at Cnet. Apple’s Boot Camp Assistant recommends creating a bootable USB drive but why go out and buy one just for installing Windows? I decided to experiment with installing Windows 7 using VMware Fusion and writing directly to the physical disk using VMware’s handy rawdiskCreator tool.
#INSTALL NEW HARD DRIVE MACBOOK PRO WINCLONE INSTALL#
Soon after installing my brand new drive, I discovered that Apple doesn’t make it very easy to install Windows without an internal optical drive. I figured I would install Windows on said drive and be able to dual-boot without any issues. I recently upgraded my MacBook with a second hard drive in place of my super-drive. A helpful tip for those of you out there who have MacBooks without DVD drives and want to dual-boot Windows 7…
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