2 HDD iMac & Bootcamp question

Hello,
If I have an iMac with 2HDD's, either 2 internal or 1 internal and 1 external, is it possible to setup boot camp with Windows booting off the secondary hdd and not the hdd with my OSX partition? If so, how? Looking at the support guide for boot camp it mentions to do that I would need to remove the drives of the lowered number bays but I'm not intending this setup for a Mac Pro.
Many Thanks!

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hi,
I am having a problem installing windows via bootcamp.
I already partitioned my hdd via Bootcamp, downloaded and copied all the supports for windows, and windows is on an external USB as well. I had to stop the process the other day, so i shut down the computer. Now I am trying to boot from the USB, but I cant get to that point where the computer should restart and windows would start installing.
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How shall I move forward? My disk is already partitioned, and if i start the whole process from the beginning, it wants me to partition again - although I already made a 100GB partition for windows.
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So, here is what happened when I tried to make it.(sorry for quality, i had to take them by phone)
At first when I opened it I saw that I could simply resolve it just by stretching the arrow at the bottom, giving the 100 GB back which I partitioned before via Bootcamp. At this point options was not available.
I didnt do it because you mentioned earlier that it might be not designed to install windows.
The second thing I tried I choose 1 Partition from Partition Layout. This time Options were available but I didnt see anything like GPT, the onces that are optionable are on the screenshot.
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He has a PC at home, which his wife uses to work on the office system.
He needs to replace a PC and is attracted to the iMac for home – attractive, space saving, etc.
He is not technical and relies 100% on third party support who also supply his PC’s.
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Is the iMac with Bootcamp and XP, 100% a PC? This is a business decision and he will not buy the iMac without 100% confidence.

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I think running on Apple meant "doesn't run on PowerPC" actually, and there are programs of course that aren't ported to OS X.
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Your iMac is Intel Mac.
Compaq was one of the first, along with a German company, to provide "100% IBM Compatible" ISA hardware. Eventually, it became "PC" rather than the longer name, microprocessor (with mini and mainframe being the other two main architectures).
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/apple-macbook-air_7.html
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9003111&pageNumber=3
And then there is this story on Apple service and support, that you rarely find with PCs:
http://www.geek.com/the-day-my-macbook-died-20080709/
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(not) another bootcamp question!

Hello,
Well after reading many posts and seeing the repetitive nature of them I find myself reluctant to add to the list...
However... Despite my trawling and repeat attempts keep failing dismally! So appologies in advance at asking what I am sure is a repeat question!
My Aim is to install drivers for camera and sound card for Windows 7.
I have an iMac mid 2007 running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Boot camp v3.04
The steps taken so far is this:
1. Ran apple software update (no results returned)
2. Opened Bootcamp and selected option to install from disc (the option to download drivers returned an error cant remember excatly)
3. Created a partition 200gb
4. Installed windows 7 on partition
Now windows seems to run perfectly with the exception of the sound issue and missing drivers for the camera, peformance counter & usb input device.
The issue I have is I no longer have the Snow Leopard disc, after reading previous posts I have downloaded multiple versions of bootcamp, 3.####, 4.#### & 5.####. When I run the setup.exe it comes back with an error saying "this version of bootcamp is not intended for this computer model"
One thing I have recently read is that in Windows there should be a boot camp icon on the start menu tray, this doesnt seem to be there and when I navigate to unistall programs it isnt there either, could this be a potential sign/issue?
So anyway, I am looking for some kind of a solution to the problem, if anybody can help?,

Well, I have now managed to succeed and thought I would share the simple solution with anybody that may be having a similar issue.
This page will help identify what version of bootcamp to download:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634
It will also take you to the download page so you get the correct verision in my case 4.4033, run the installer and it should install drivers for everything!

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