On the installation media page, drag and drop the windows7.vmdk file previously created onto the “Use an existing virtual disk” drop-down (where it says “None”). Next, start VMWare Fusion and select “New…” from the File menu. This will give you two raw disk description files ![]() Identify the correct drive number on the left - as a guideline, it’s probably listed as FAT32 or NTFS formatted under ‘Sytem’ (sic). The output will be something like: Nr Start Size Type Id Sytem Applications/VMware \ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator print /dev/disk0 You first need to configure VMWare to use the Boot Camp partition ‘raw’, as a real disk rather than a virtual disk. The important section from this article is as follows (see original article for screenshots) The guide I followed to do this can be found here. Next you will need to install a trial of VMWare fusion 5 and create the VM linked to the partition. So you will need to download rEFIt and install it. ![]() Now in order to do this you will need to install rEFIt which is an addition to the normal EFI bootloader, this is required as the partially installed Windows will not show up in the normal menu you get when holding alt when booting. This way you can partially install Windows onto the partition and then reboot natively to that partition and complete the installation. Now the posts I found online suggested using VMWare to use the partition as the HDD for a Virtual machine rather than a normal Virtual Disk file. If you try to boot from the USB attached DVD you will most likely just get a flashing white cursor in the top left corner. ![]() Now the assistant will complain if you don’t have the Windows media attached so it may be worth plugging in a USB DVD drive with a Windows disk in for this part, we won’t actually use this to install Windows. I launched the bootcamp assistant from Applications > Utilities and used it to partition the HDD. So initially I put a Windows 7 DVD in my USB SuperDrive and began the usual process of installing Windows using the bootcamp assistant. a USB DVD drive and physical Windows disc may be helpful.rEFIt (an addition to the Mac EFI bootloader) (probably optional but removal not tested).Paragon NTFS (free trial is sufficient).VMWare Fusion v5 (free trial is sufficient) (v6 is known not to work with this method).A windows 7 or 8 install media ISO file. ![]() So here are the steps I followed to successfully install Windows, I’ll document them exactly as I know they work but I’ll make a note on sections which are likely to be optional. So in order to get Windows installed on my MacBook I had two options, put the SuperDrive back in (which wasn’t really an option as I had put the drive in an external caddy which doesn’t look like it will be easy top open again) or to find another method. This is most likely to be down to the firmware on each machine. However if the machine didn’t come with an internal drive like a MacBook air then the USB SuperDrive will work fine. For some reason Apple have put in some restrictions which means that if the machine originally had an internal SuperDrive then it is not possible to install from a USB stick or from a USB SuperDrive. However I found that reinstalling Windows without the internal SuperDrive was a major pain. As I was messing around with hard drives I decided to go for a fresh install of OS X and Windows on the SSD. I then moved my 1TB HDD into the caddy and put a new SSD in the HDD slot. So recently I swapped out the SuperDrive in my early 2011 MacBook pro for an additional HDD caddy. 7 minute read #mac, #os-x, #paragon-ntfs, #refit, #ssd, #usb-superdrive, #vmware, #windows
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