So I was offered to buy a SSD from a friend who yanked it out of his Macbook Pro 13. The drive is a Samsung (I think they all are in Macs), and it looks to be an OEM version, I can't find retail information for this model anywhere. All good, I'm willing to chance it...
However, it already has OSX installed (obviously). I don't have a Mac, will I be able to format this drive in order to load Windows on it using my PC?
Thanks.
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 11:52 AM
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 11:54 AM
yes, you must format it
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 11:57 AM
I know that I *must* format it. I was making sure I would be able to do this on my PC. This will be the PRIMARY drive, not a secondary drive, so this will be the only drive connected. Will I still be able to go into the BIOS and format the drive, or will trying to load up a Mac OS on my non-Mac hardware cause any problems?
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 12:09 PM
after u plug the SSD drive in you must start the computer and boot from CD
install your windows 7 CD and it should ask where do you want to install and what drive to format
you can also use a program called gparted but u must download and burn it to a disk first
install your windows 7 CD and it should ask where do you want to install and what drive to format
you can also use a program called gparted but u must download and burn it to a disk first
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 03:38 PM
Yes it will format the drive before installing.
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 03:49 PM
Thanks for the help.
I'm an avid Windows guy... I've only ever booted up a Mac once or twice. And I know they are big on their proprietary hardware... anyways, I will look into getting the drive then. Its a nice cheap way to get a SSD...
I'm an avid Windows guy... I've only ever booted up a Mac once or twice. And I know they are big on their proprietary hardware... anyways, I will look into getting the drive then. Its a nice cheap way to get a SSD...
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Posted 06 April 2011 - 11:21 PM
Its possible though difficult to run mac os on pc hardware. The main problems I can remember are that the OS is encrypted and you need hacked drivers.
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Posted 10 April 2011 - 01:25 PM
Its possible though difficult to run mac os on pc hardware. The main problems I can remember are that the OS is encrypted and you need hacked drivers.
That's not what he wants to do. But it isn't that hard. I have it on my computer.
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Posted 15 June 2011 - 01:20 PM
Also OSX can read from NTFS but it cannot write to NTFS by default, there are utilities out there that will let you do this however...
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