Installing boot camp on 2nd internal drive on MacPro

I have a Mac Pro that came with 2 hard drives built in. Can I install bootcamp on the second internal hard drive? Right now it's totally blank. I just want to leave my main mac hard drive as only mac stuff.

Yes, you can. I have 4 hard drives on my Mac Pro and have given the entire 4th drive to Windows.
You don't say what you plan to install on that bootcamp partition on your 2nd drive, but if it is some version of Windows you will likely have to use your Windows install disk to format the partition.

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Installing boot camp on a second drive

Hi All,
First let me apologize for this long-winded post and also for my lack of basic knowledge when it comes to mac computer skills.
I would like to install windows 7 on a brand new 500gb drive in a brand new mac pro.
I was reading through the installation & setup up guide for boot camp and was stonewalled on page 6 it says;
“If your computer has more than one internal disk and you want to install Boot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lower numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp.”
Ok that makes sense but if I remove the first drive how do I install boot camp since the first drive contains boot camp on it?
The next question I have is; Can I make the whole 500gb drive one partition that will have boot camp, windows 7 and all the windows files on it or does it have to have just boot camp and windows 7?
Thanks
Mike

Shutdown - pull OS X drive(s) - continue with install.
You'll have to change to NTFS when you get to where to install.
At that point you can even format or partition.
As for the Assistant, well, some install Windows 7 on a drive without it (that can't be done with XP) and just leave one drive and boot from Win 7 DVD.
"that will have boot camp...."
There IS NO "boot camp." The assistant modified the partition table to include a standard MBR for booting Windows. And that would be on the #2 500GB.
Until you install the Apple setup.exe drivers and services after Windows is installed from your OS X DVD, there is nothing in or on Windows that is faintly about boot camp. Unfortunate term. It also gets to become a control panel in Windows to change the default startup OS (why not call it Apple OS Switcher / Apple Startup Disk).
There will be AppleTimeServices and AppleOSSwitcher services along with HAL and device drivers to enable them in Device Manager.
As for lowered numbered and first drive bay, they must think Mac Pro owners are locked into and only boot from drive bay #1. and that Assistant is a very limited not very smart partitioning tool is true.
So run Assistant but instead of restarting with the DVD and install, just shutdown. Pull all the other drives but 500GB. Then boot off the DVD.

Boot Camp on MBP internal drive (disk1), attempts to boot off CD bay drive (disk0).

Hi. I have an early 2011 MBP running the latest version of Mavericks with two internal SSDs. The HD bay has a 1TB (disk1) and the CD bay has a 512MB (disk0). Boot Camp is installed on the 1TB. When I boot up the system and hold down the Option key, I see Windows as a boot option. If I select it, however, it starts to boot and then goes immediately to a black screen with a white underline cursor blinking in the upper left. It remains like this until I reboot.
After spending a lot of time looking into the cause of this problem, I've come to the conclusion that the system is confused by the drive in the CD bay and is attempting to boot from it before it attempts to boot off the drive in the HD bay. I installed Boot Camp originally by using Boot Camp Assistant to partition the drive and then using WinClone to copy over a previous Boot Camp partition. I'm pretty rusre that as a result, one of the following two things is happening:
Whatever setting Boot Camp Assistant made to tell the Windows install DVD to boot first is still in effect and Boot Camp is attempting to boot from the CD bay.
The Boot Camp partition is set from the previous drive it was on to boot from disk0, which is now being assigned to the drive in the CD bay.
To test these theories, I've unplugged the drive in the CD bay and rebooted, at which point Boot Camp boots perfectly off the drive in the HD bay.
The drive in the CD bay is set to a single HFS+ partition. I've looked at the GPT and MBR on both drives and they seem fine (the Boot Camp partition is bootable). Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing here?
Thanks in advance.
Craig

Still having issues, any suggestions would probably be helpful.

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I find I have to use Windows to administer a Network Solutions
hosted and built website. They claim to support Mac OS but
there are issues and they tell me that Internet Explorer is the
more reliable browser to use. So I'm wondering if I should
replace my primary drive with a new one and install Boot
Camp. Is this a workable solution? Should I consider one
of the virtualization programs?
Tom

I would suggest trying a VM first, and I would suggest using VirtualBox (as it is free), it will work but with a slight performance hit. If the hit is more than you can stand go the Boot Camp route.

Installing boot camp/windows on separate drive (Tiger) question

I work in a college computer lab where we have been instructed to install an additional internal hard drive on our lab of Mac Pros which will be dedicated to Windows.
The issue that I see is that we are still running Tiger due to some of the specialized software that we use not being compatible with Leopard and will not be upgrading the OS for at least a semester. I have read that Boot Camp is no longer compatible with Tiger, so my question is this: Is it possible to still install the drives which will be windows formatted if we have a copy of the old Boot Camp Beta (which I understand is no longer available)? I would think this is not particularly wise to do, but unfortunately I am not the final say in my situation.
Thanks for your help on this!

maestrotim wrote:
Thanks Stefan, sorry but what drivers CD do you mean?
With the Beta the neede Windows Drivers are incorporated into the BootCamp Assistant.
Since you need the drivers to complete the Windows Installation, you have to make a Drivers CD from the BootCamp Assistant before starting the Windows Installation.
In the Top Menu of the Assistant you find this.
Regards
Stefan

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As nice as some of Leopard's features are, it's too bug ridden for me in its current state. It lives on my primary drive, and I would like to do a fresh install of Tiger (retail) on my second internal drive. How would I go about accomplishing this? Should I press C when booting with the Tiger disc in the drive? I'm assuming that I'll be able to access all my files and applications on the Leopard drive when done. Is that a safe assumption?

So, when I boot off the install DVD it will give me the choice as to which drive to install to? I will remember the clone thing for the next OS release, that's for sure...
<EDIT>Found the answer to that question here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5490253&#5490253.

Boot Camp on 2nd Internal SSD, Mid 2009 3.06Ghz MBP, Won't Boot

Hi everyone!
I have a mid 2009 3.06 Ghz MacBook Pro that had a finicky SuperDrive and bad hard drive. I replaced the SuperDrive with an optical drive -> SATA drive bay and the original hard drive and now have 2 SSD's (Crucial M4s) inside my comptuer. I wanted to use Boot Camp to install Windows 7 64bit Professional on the SSD in the "optical drive" and got it to succesfully install. However, the computer refuses to boot to that drive after installing updates; every time I say "boot to Windows," a black screen with a blinking cursor shows up and never disappears. I can boot to it if I attach my Windows 7 installation DVD via an external DVD USB drive, but that is obviously not a true solution.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Aaron

Still having issues, any suggestions would probably be helpful.

BSOD after installing Boot Camp, AMD Radeon 6630M driver issue

I have reinstalled Windows using Boot Camp twice now and get a blue screen right after installing the Boot Camp drivers and restarting.
I am installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on my Mac mini 2011 edition. I created an install disk in Lion and used the option to copy the Boot Camp drivers into the disk.
I have narrowed the problem down to Apple's driver for the AMD Radeon 6630M graphics which my Mac mini has. The driver will install without errors but then the blue screen appears on next startup. If I use safe mode to uninstall the AMD driver, the blue screen goes away, but the display resolution is very low.
I checked for driver updates from AMD, but there are none for the 6630M.
Anyone else having this issue?

Hi,
I have installed Windows using Boot Camp and I also get the blue screen of death right after installing the Boot Camp drivers and restarting.
I am installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a i7 Mac mini 2011 edition. I created the USB install thumb within Lion's Boot Camp, and got downloaded the latest Bootcamp drivers (bootcamp 4.0). I connect the mac mini to a 24" iiyama screen with a HDMI cable. I don't have a DVI cable anymore unless i would have checked that point too.
I have also narrowed the problem down to Apple's driver for the AMD Radeon 6630M graphics which my Mac mini also has. The driver will install without errors but then the blue screen appears on next startup. If I use safe mode to uninstall the AMD driver or renaming the atikmdag.sys file (the main cause of the crash), the blue screen goes away, but the display can't get the effects such as Aero interface.
AMD provides official drivers that don't recognize its own 6630m graphic card with Apple, then doesn't install any up-to-date driver... Only Apple's AtiGraphics setup program will install the drivers...but it makes Windows 7 crash at each boot.
Thanks for your technical skills or info to come over this issue (or releasing a bootcamp update ?)

Can TM back up to a 2nd internal drive in MacPro?

All the help files include info on backing up to external drives but I haven't seen anything on backing up to an internal drive in a MacPro. I suspect it will work, but just need a Yes or No.
Set up is MP with two HDs, one for system & one for TM.
TIA

yes, it will work. I've been doing it ever since Leopard came out on both of my mac pros. much faster and more convenient than using an external.

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Trying to plan my upgrade to the new Mac Pros and I'm wondering whether it's possible to install Boot Camp on a logical drive located on a Promise Pegasus2 Thunderbolt enclosure? Ideally I'd be setting up a series of logical drives on a Pegasus2 (2 to duplicate existing drives in my current Mac Pro, 1 for Time Machine, and 1 for Boot Camp) but I can't seem to find out whether Boot Camp partitions are supported...

I too would like to install a bootcamp partition on an SD card so that I will not loose a huge chuck of my internal drive to Windows, a system I need very rarely (this is important for all users of SSHDs, where internal storage space is precious).
If it is not possible to create a bootcamp partition on an external SD card, how about installing Lion first on that SD card, booting from the SD card, and then creating the bootcamp partition on that card. I would think that Lion's disk utility would consider the SD card as the internal disk, and so should make the partition and allow the installation. Large fast SD cards are not cheap, but I would think that this would be an option for those of us with limited internal storage space.
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Install Boot Camp on 3rd drive (3TB)?

I just installed a new 3TB drive in my early 2008 Mac Pro, which is runing ML. I would like to use Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on a 300 GB partition on that new drive and to have it bootable. I would like to retain the rest of the drive for use in OS X. Is this possible?
Also, it says the following in the "...problems creating a partition" section of Boot Camp Installation manual:
If you have a Mac Pro with more than one internal disk and you want to install Boot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lower- numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp
Given that Boot Camp Assistant is running in OS X & OS X is on the 1st drive, then at what point would I remove the 1st & 2nd drives?
Thanks,
Bev in TX

Okay, after rereading a number of messages in this forum, I think that I finally understand what is going on. Namely, if I want to install MS Windows 7 on a drive other than #1, then I would:
Temporarily remove all other drives.
Install MS Windows 7 using the installation media (DVD).
Install Boot Camp drivers that were previously saved on a USB flash drive or DVD.
Shut down Windows.
Reinsert the other drives.
I have an older 300 GB data drive (#2), which I could:
Move the data from this drive to the new 3TB drive.
Install Windows as above.
Is this correct?
Thanks,
Bev in TX

I have a Mac mini mid 2010. I have ML installed on one of the 500GB disks. I want to install Boot Camp on the 2nd 500GB disk. Mine is XP Professional.

I have a Mac mini mid 2010. I recently installed ML on one of the 500GB disks. I want to install Boot Camp on the 2nd 500GB disk. Mine is XP Professional. My original OS was Snow Leopard Server edition. Please let me have your suggestions and advice. Thank you. I am in India.

Mountain Lion Boot Camp no longer supports Windows XP, it would also only prepare the same physical disk you run the Boot Camp Utility from i.e. the Mountain Lion disk.
See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4818#3
I suggest you start off with the second drive formatted as a single HFS+ volume with a GUID partition scheme, then install Snow Leopard on it. Then boot with Snow Leopard and run its version of Boot Camp utility, when you tell it to prepare the (second) drive you can tell it to allocate the minimum to Snow Leopard and the maximum to Windows. Then you can install Windows XP.
Note: Boot Camp Utility was not included with Snow Leopard Server.

Can I install Boot Camp on two drives within the same computer?

I have XP on one drive in my Mac Pro and will be putting Windows 7 on another. I'm purchasing a new OEM full install version of Windows 7.
I'll be using Windows 7 as my primary OS, but the reason I'd like to keep XP in the second drive is to use it for backup.

Thanks. I want to keep XP on the drive where it currently is (which is a slow drive) and put Windows 7 on a faster drive.
I will also use the boot camp partition on the drive with the XP boot camp partition as a backup drive.

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or
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I do this method, but the problem is still there!
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You really want to consider posting in the Boot Camp forum -
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
An unsupported OS using software not designed for that unsupported OS, probably going to be hard pressed to get concrete answers.

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