Bootcamp with multiple drives?

Hi there,
I have a mid 2012 macbook pro running 10.9.1. I recently installed an SSD in place of my old HDD and put the HDD in place of the optical drive. I was hoping to install windows 7 (or 8.1) with bootcamp onto the HDD but there is a partition error and wont let me. I've been reading everywhere I can and it sounds like I can't install bootcamp with more than one drive in the computer. is that correct? and more importantly, is there any work around? I really dont want to pull my laptop back apart.
Any help would be appreciated!

I've got a mid-2010 with the same setup you have and I have an XP partition on the hard drive, so it can be done. That's the good news.
The bad news is that you need the optical drive in the machine in order to do it. At least that's how I ended up doing it. It seems like you need the Windows disk in an internal bay in order to make it all work. Once you get it done, make a backup with Winclone. Then if you ever have to do it again, all you need to do is make a Windows Partition with Bootcamp and you can recreate it from there.

Similar Messages

AEBS Shared Disk structure with multiple drives?

I recently added a second HD to my AEBS 802.11n. I was sharing the first disk on my network with "User Accounts". This created a /Users/<user-share> structure on the shared disk so that each user had their own private share point. With the new disk, however, the AEBS creates a folder called /Shared on the second disk and ALL accounts use that directory as a share point on the new drive, i.e. all files from UserA are accessible by UserB. I've tried PUTING the /Users/<user-share> structure on the second drive (by connecting it to my mac, creating the directories, and reconnecting it to the AEBS), but the AEBS still uses the /Shared directory.
Any ideas? Any further comments on how the AEBS handles shares with multiple accounts and multiple disks?
Apple's documentation is VERY poor on this topic, it is a bit disappointing.
-jmj

I recently added a second HD to my AEBS 802.11n. I was sharing the first disk on my network with "User Accounts". This created a /Users/<user-share> structure on the shared disk so that each user had their own private share point. With the new disk, however, the AEBS creates a folder called /Shared on the second disk and ALL accounts use that directory as a share point on the new drive, i.e. all files from UserA are accessible by UserB. I've tried PUTING the /Users/<user-share> structure on the second drive (by connecting it to my mac, creating the directories, and reconnecting it to the AEBS), but the AEBS still uses the /Shared directory.
Any ideas? Any further comments on how the AEBS handles shares with multiple accounts and multiple disks?
Apple's documentation is VERY poor on this topic, it is a bit disappointing.
-jmj

SCCM 2012 OSD with Multiple Drive letters using StandAlone Media

Hey guys I have a client who is required to partition their Windows 8.1 installation in three different partitions:
C:(OS Partition)
d:(SQLData Partition)
E:(Client Data Partition)
G:(CD-ROM)
I Already know that I should not use multiple drives for OSD but this is the requirement I have been given...
When I deploy my TS through PxE or USB Bootable Media all the drives are labeled correctly... C,D and E but if I Use Standalone USB Media then I end up with C, E and F and G as CDRom. I know that WinPE assigns a drive letter to the usb stick usually d: but
not always so how can I set the USB Standalone media to act the same way as PxE and Usb Boot Media? is there a way to have PE set the USB drive to drives latter in the alphabet? s, t or w?
Please help

Hey Joyce thanks for the response but I am not talking about the fact that the drives are labeled differently in PE I am stating that once the imaging process is complete the drive letters are not the same when doing a deployment through PxE or USB Bootable
media... When using Full standalone USB media to deploy the exact same TS the drive letter assignment is not consistent so to be as clear as I can I will explain again...
When doing a deployment from PxE, USB BOOT Media or USB BOOT Media attached to a VM, all the drives end up correct at the end of the deployment so C: is the OS drive D: is the Data Drive and E: is the Maps Drive (Keep in mind that if I do a usb
bootable media deployment and leave the USB in the computer I have the same issue as the standalone media)
But if I run the deployment from a STANDALONE USB Media then everything runs as it should but when I enter windows and look at my drive letter assignment the C: is the OS drive the D: drive is the USB the E: drive is the Data drive and G: is the Maps
Drive...
Which means to me that when windows is assigning drive letters it is assigning the USB Drive as D and not something less intrusive like y: or o:
So the question is: How can I have the drive letters assigned properly when using full standalone media So that my deployments are consistent when deploying through PxE, Usb Boot Media and USB Standalone media? Did no one ever test this out? and if so is
this what I can expect from SCCM 2012R2 For consistency to not be available across all deployment methods?

Time Capsule with Multiple Drive Dock (Current Gen w/ 802.11AC)

I've seen mutliple threads regarding USB hubs, but nothing regarding Hard drive docks.
I have the NexStar HX4 Quad drive bay w/ only 2 drives installed. I partitioned each drive into 500GB partitions (so 2x500GB on one, 4x500GB on the second one) and I'm having issues now with the second drive installed getting the shares to stay reliable. Problem is I don't have a Mac at my house just yet, but I'm working towards that.
What's happening is either one of the drives will drop out or oddly enough it's flipped from one port to another that was empty. I suspect these could be a result of the dock going screwy but I'm not sure. This wasn't a problem until I added my 2TB drive yesterday. I've had to power cycle the TC 4 times and the drive dock 3 times. At one point, the TC was showing the shares to my phone but it was denying access initially, so I did a reboot on my phone and no go. Rebooted the TC and dock and it came back just fine.
Has anyone else used this dock and TC combo or have they tried a multi dock solution? I'm just wanting to get this to straighten out as I do store a lot of data and the reason I chose the TC was because I liked the idea of having some storage inside the thing and I was planning on getting a Mac back then like I am now so it seemed logical.

does the beam forming occur with multiple clients
Yes, but Apple is unclear about how many cients can be connected simultaneously with this feature.
do these clients have to be 802.11ac compatible?
Yes

Share a Hard Drive with Multiple Drives and Users

Background: I have an Airport Extreme (4th Generation) with two external hard drives connected via USB 2.0 and USB hub. I have Airport Utility setup to allow access to both drives via user accounts and passwords. From what I have gathered the way in which the user accounts and passwords work is the Airport Extreme makes two directories at to root level of the hard drive, 'Users' and 'Shared'. All files located in the 'Shared' directory are available to all user accounts setup in Airport Utility. Within the 'Users' directory are sub-directories named for each user account that is setup. All files located within the user directories are available to each respective user.
My trouble is the ability to see both the 'Shared' folders and the respective user folder when I authenticate with a user account. I am able to see the files in the 'Shared' directory on each of the two disks but it seems I am only able to see one of the user account directories and files.
Questions: My two questions are:
1) Is my understanding outlined above correct?
2) How might I be able to see the user directory on both disks as well as the 'Shared' directory on both disks.
I am hoping to still be able to use user accounts to access the disks as I have multiple people who store their files.

It didn't. After a night of testing, I found that I could get the router to at least let me create shares if I partitioned it as an MBR drive (GPT would not work at all), but it would not even rcognize a partition sized to 2TiB (tebibytes, 2048 GiB) or even one sized to 2TB (terabytes). The most it would recognize through my trial and error was about 1.5TiB, which I found odd.
This setup would have been too onerous, as it would have made about 746GiB completely unusable on the drive (outside the largest area referenced by an MBR partition table), and I would have had a main partition for files and one that would be invisible to the router (it only read the first partition, obviously).
So luckily, Best Buy took the external hard drive back with no restocking fee (the WD My Book Essentials 3TB is on sale at $150 there if anyone is interested). I ended up just getting a Synology NAS enclosure and 2 2TB hard drives. I'll get those on Thursday (hopefully).

Where best to put Events and Projects with multiple drives...

I just got a new iMac, and I need to know how to maximize its speed with FCPX in terms of hard drives.
My old iMac had two internal drives: a 256 GB flash drive and a 2 TB standard drive. On that iMac, I had the OS and FCPX on the main internal SSD, and my events and projects on the secondary internal drive (the magnetic internal drive).
My new iMac is the latest 27" iMac with an i7 3.5 GHz, 32 GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5 video card. It also has USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt, and only one internal drive: a 512 GB SSD drive. I am connecting a 6 TB OWC external magnetic drive (with 128 MB cache) to my new iMac via a LaCie Thunderbolt to eSATA adapter (the drive and adapter are a combination that OWC sells, has tested, and recommends). I plan to use Disk Utility to make this 6 TB external drive (which is 3 TB + 3 TB hard drives in one enclosure) raid 0 for fastest speeds.
With this new setup, my initial thought is to put both my FCPX events and projects on this 6 TB external drive. But is that the best option? Would it be better to get another high speed external Thunderbolt drive and put the events on one drive and the projects on another? I have a feeling that putting them on one drive is the way to go, and that there would not be much, if anything, to gain by putting the events and projects on separate drives. But I'd really appreciate any advice.
Thanks!

Hi Russ--
Only in the past year I have implemented a backup strategy. I've never had an internal hard drive fail. Until recently, I had never had any drive failure. Then I bought some desktop external drives from Seagate and paid quite a bit more for Seagate's FW800 adapters for them (my last iMac only had FW800 and USB 2.0). The drives kept getting corrupted, so I was copying terabytes of data back and forth to restore the affected data. Turns out it was the FW800 adapters all along. Seagate was aware of the problem, and had a firmware upgrade, but has done absolutely nothing to publicize the fact. I'll never buy their stuff again.
But I'm still using Carbon Copy Cloner (great software, great support), and now that I switched back to the original USB 3.0 interfaces, the Seagate drives are reliable. So I will continue to use CCC and those drives as my back-up strategy. I was playing with fire for decades by not doing any backups. It's ironic that I only started having problems when I started to back things up!
The speed of the 512 GB internal drive on this new iMac is insane (the external drive arrives tomorrow, so I don't know about it yet). The internal SSD drive clocks in at 697 write and 723 read (compared to 179 and 207 on my old iMac's internal SSD drive). I am anxious to see what the external drive clocks in at tomorrow.

Time Machine is great but "how to" with multiple drives?

I like time machine, but like to use it to back up 3 or 4 different internal drives to 3 or 4 dedicated external drives of equal size. For example: 250Gb MAC main drive to an external HD 250Gb in size, Video drive 1Tb in size (used for HD video editing) to a 1Tb external drive and a 750Gb Media drive to a 750 external drive. I would like to keep them all separate if possible but open to better ideas.
What I do now, is use a Lacie drive and backup software to BU the main drive once in a while. Timemachine backups the rest except Aperture library (done by Aperture Vaults) and Video drive (which will shortly have its own backup drive).

Sounds like you'd be better off using something like SuperDuper, especially for your video drive which likely sees frequent changes. It also seems like all you need to do is clone your media drive rather than keep revisions. IMO your backup drive for your main drive is a little small. A general rule of thumb that I have seen is that you use a hard drive with at least twice the capacity of your drive to be backed up. That way you would be able to keep a relatively large archive of old backups.
Hope this helps.

Time Machine issue with multiple drives...

So I am trying to run two backups, one wirelessly and the other through a wired USB connection. This is for a MacBook Air, so it's not always connected to the USB drive. The instructions I found online said that once you click "Select Disk" and to to add another disk, it will ask you if you want to switch disks or use both. That option for "both" never came up, and it was like I was selecting a new Time Machine disk. Why is that? Can't I use both disks as automatic back-ups? I am thinking of adding a third, and didn't want to continue unless I was sure. I have OS 10.7.5

The option to use multiple backup disks is only in OS X 10.8 and later.

Time Capsule with multiple drives

Hi everyone, great information here! I have a slight issue and am seeking guidance! I have a 1TB Time Capsule that is used with Time Machine to backup my Macbook Pro and 1 external hard drive. I have attached another 1 TB drive to the Time Capsule as well. I also have 2 other external hard drives that I'd like Time Machine to back up to the attached hard drive on the time capsule. Is this possible? If so, how would I make it work? Thanks!!

Sorry but Time Machine will not back up the external drives connected to the Time Capsule.

Using multiple drives with Windows 7 Backup

I have a customer with a new PC running Windows 7 Pro. He has 3 Seagate 1TB USB drives that he swaps out nightly for backups. Currently, backups are being done using the built-in Windows 7 Backup.
His previous PC ran XP and used the program which is pre-loaded onto Seagate drives to install onto PCs. He used this with the 3 drives and had no problems.
However, this software on the drives would not install on his Windows 7 PC because I presume it to not be compatible, even in compatibility mode.
The problem now is that each time he swaps in a different drive, the backups fail because it's a different drive and the backup software can't seem to handle multiple drives. With Windows Server Backup, you can add multiple drives so that when you swap them,
backups still run. I can't seem to do that with Windows 7 Backup.
Does anyone know how to get multiple drives to work with the built-in Windows 7 Backup?
Jonathan

In addition to the above persons' solution, you can choose a third software instead of the built-in Windows 7 Backup tool, the backup software can make up for the deficiency of the backup tool of Windows. You can search in Google, and
will find many kinds of software, Genie backup and AOMEI Backupper: http://www.backup-utility.com/ can be ok. Hope the freeware can give you suggestion.
AOMEI turned out to be the answer. It works well with multiple drives and provides an easy way the user can see if the backup succeeded or not. Thanks!
Jonathan

Time Machine - using multiple drives when the first is not available

Hello I have been succussfully using Time Machine with my USB external drive. I have been connecting it to my MacBook Air from time to time. Manual backups as well as the hourly backups when the drive has been connected worked without any problem.
Recently, I connected Synology DiskStation (NAS) to my network and I have added it to the list of drives in my Time Machine setup. When my original external drive (first in the list) is not connected to my MacBook the hourly backup is not initiated by the Time Machine at all. Manually started backup is runnign fine without any problem.
The external drive is annotated with exclamation mark in Time Machines list with "not available" error - and it seems that this is causing the interruption of automatic hourly backup to any drive.
Is there any way how to debug Time Machine? Or to get some logs of Time Machine?
Any similar experience with multiple drive backup when the first of them is disconnected most of the time...?
Thanks a lot for any help
Petr

Perhaps you should address this to Synology's tech support. Apple doesn't provide any support for third-party NAS, so your best bet is with Synology.

Using multiple drives for iMovie 10

Previoiusly, I have used multple drives to store my business & personal video files. I don't see how to do that now with iMovie 10. Now everything is in different Libraries. When I click on any of my older Events, iMovie shows that it is empty. How do I fix this?

In addition to the above persons' solution, you can choose a third software instead of the built-in Windows 7 Backup tool, the backup software can make up for the deficiency of the backup tool of Windows. You can search in Google, and
will find many kinds of software, Genie backup and AOMEI Backupper: http://www.backup-utility.com/ can be ok. Hope the freeware can give you suggestion.
AOMEI turned out to be the answer. It works well with multiple drives and provides an easy way the user can see if the backup succeeded or not. Thanks!
Jonathan

Crashes with external drives (power management problem?)

Everything worked well in Tiger on my first gen MBP. Since i switched to Leopard and now Snow, and a new UNI MBP in december 08 I have so many external drive issues.
USB drives just disappear and power off (from the system not electrical) for no reason, mostly when connected to USB hubs. I've tried various hubs including the powered ones. But as soon as i go over two USB devices in the provided ports my problems start.. It feels like not enough juice is getting through those ports on my MBP. I never have a problem if i just connect 2 devices into the MBP, but it's not enough (i have 5x1tb external drives).
Also the same with the express34 slot.. Everything was fine under Tiger and my old MBP, But now i get the grey wall of death so many times when connecting 2x esata 1TB drives. The system is so unstable with multiple drives both USB and. I'm currently working as a pro Photographer on assignment in Asia and these stability are starting to become a big problem.
God forbid i'm even considering a switch back to windows for reliability, (yes, i did use the words windows and reliability in the same sentence)
Does anybody else experience problems with multiple drives through leopard/snow leopard via Apple notebooks? I would love to hear some users experiences and hopefully find a solution to my problem.. In every other way the system works like a charm.
I will post in 2 forums because i'm not sure if software or hardware related.
Thanks, any help is appreciated.

It can't be the drives because they get swapped monthly when i hand them in.. Varies brands and external boxes but always 1TB drives.. I have tried 2 different powered hubs and still experience the same problems, however those were generic ones i picked up in Asia (all made in Taiwan right? (rhetorical:))
Ok, maybe for a last try i will purchase a branded hub and see if that helps. I still can't get the thought out of my head that it's a power problem in the MBP logic board, is it possible? I say this because the esata drives behave in a similar fashion via the expresscard.

Adobe downloaded to multiple drives please help Thanks

I purchased adobe web premium a couple of months ago. When I downloaded this program and I did a custom install to go onto another drive. With my computer I have several hard drives with multiple drives on them. I wanted this to go all onto my G drive but for some reason it downloaded alot of stuff to my C drive. My C drive is really full so I did not want any of this program on there. My question is this Can I take all of the stuff on the C drive and move it to my G drive with out messing up the program. I am talking brushes, Plugins things of this nature. I don't want it to look in the registry of the C drive but the G drive. This way it saves alot of space on my C. I have windows vista Ultimate. Can someone help me figure this out? Thanks

ladytaralynn wrote:
My C drive is really full so I did not want any of this program on there.
That is normal behavior. Shared components such as Bridge, PDFL, Fonts etc. will always be installed on your system drive.
ladytaralynn wrote:
My question is this Can I take all of the stuff on the C drive and move it to my G drive with out messing up the program. I am talking brushes, Plugins things of this nature.
Most likely not. Some plug-ins will always have to be loaded within the context of your system root directory since they need to obbey a specific loading order and call up other files. Likewise, any content or extension will not show up in the fly-out menus, if not in the reserved directories. E.g. if you move your brushes to a different drive, the program cannot scan them on startup and they will not be listed in the menu. You will have to load them manually, which simply may become impractical. The only thing I can think of, is to create a link to the folder and place it inside the program directory, but this does not work for all Adobe programs. So more or less, you should really leave things as they are and instead get a bigger drive one of those days. Deactivate your apps, create a disk image, apply the image to the new drive, reactivate everything... Should do the trick without having to fully re-install.
Mylenium

FileVault with 2 Drives

I have a mac with a SSD and a regular HD. My SSD contains the OS and apps and the home folder is on the standard drive. If I enable file vault I am only able to apply it the boot drive and all of the truely sensitive data is still in the clear on the standard drive. I found a few tutorials on the web on how to turn on the encrypiton via the terminal but the system will not allow me to login to my user account with the encryption enabled on the standard HD containing the home directory. I am very greatful for the recovery partition as I was able to get to a terminal window and revert the drive.
Does anybody know if there is a supported way to encrypte a machine with multiple drives? I find this odd that it is not included since Apple is currently shipping computers with this very config.
Hopefully we see this in a 10.7.X update.

I have the same situation - and I guess Apple needs to address this since they sell iMacs with an SSD and an internal hard drive?
So I guess the answer is Filevault encrypts only the boot drive. If we I want to encrypt my HD (I boot from SSD), then I need to create an encrypted disk partition?

Bootcamp with multiple drives?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for