The DVD drive stops reading and despite waiting half an hour, the install process did not continue.īooting option b would start the 'Windows is loading files.' However, upon filling the left to right bar, the DVD drive would halt. This prompted two options:īooting option a would cause the Mac to fade to an ASCII character Windows screen and then to a black screen with a blinking _ cursor. Since the main drive is dead, we tried attempting booting the installer through a DVD. However, what we did not know is Macs below EFI 2.0 cannot boot from USB, thus our efforts to boot from USB disk is useless.įor the subsequent trial and errors, we kept rEFIt and the partition formatted to FAT32 until we used a third party NTFS software. We fixed this by adding the MBP's model number to the array in a file that Boot Camp Assistant checks. The make a USB drive option is greyed out. We attempted to install Windows 7 natively a multitude of ways, but we keep running into issues launching the installer.īoot camp assistant only allows a simple version of Disk Utility as in to resize the main OS X partition and create a FAT32 formatted partition for Windows. He owns a 2008 Macbook Pro that doesn't have a working DVD drive, so he uses an external DVD drive for his disk needs. I have a friend who requires a Windows 7 environment to work on a research project involving Unit圓D and Kinect SDK.

Install windows 7 on macbook late 2008