Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives

#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives install#
#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives full#
#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives windows 8.1#
#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives iso#
#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives plus#

Basically, you just keep rebooting until it stops doing weird stuff. The screen will probably do strange things during this process and especially as it is finishing.

#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives install#

It will install the drivers you need to make your apple wifi chips, graphics stuff, keyboards, etc work properly. Navigate to the folder on the flashdrive called BootCamp and run setup.exe. Things may look weird and you probably won't have internet access the next steps fix this.Д«oot your new windows partition and then insert the bootcamp flashdrive (NOT the other way round). Make sure it takes your product key and boots fully. Do step 10 again and it should boot fully, as well as asking for your product key. It should boot into windows and take a LOONG time, then shut down. Use the arrow keys to pick either of the windows choices (they are actually the same thing as far as I can tell) and hit enter.

#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives plus#

You should see a screen with all of your partitions shown, plus one (or possibly two) orange things named windows. Plug the drive into your mac and hold down OPTION while it starts up. Notes: If the hard drive image is split into 2GB chunks, then you can use the ParallelsвЂ™ command line tool to merge the images before converting or use the GUI to edit the hard drive image. Once it is done, EJECT the harddrive (windows may refuse to do this if so, simply turn the computer off before removing it). Parallels converted hard drive image in FTK Imager Step 5. I maxed out my internal drive's read/write speed during this process. This will take some time try not to do anything on the computer while it is installing. Make the WINDOWS partition both the system and boot partition (you could get fancy and make two, but I didn't bother).

Start up Win2USB and work through the wizard:Д¬hoose the. Choose 'format' and format the partition to MS-DOS. Right click on the 'WINDOWS' volume that should appear in windows explorer. Plug the drive into your windows device, preferably via a USB 3.0 port. Once you start the computer, the selected OS runs in native mode. You specify the required operating system (WindowsВ® OS or Mac OS) when you start the computer. After installation, use Boot Camp to operate your Mac using a dual boot system. You can do steps 6 and 7 while this is occurring, but it should be pretty fast. The Boot Camp Assistant guides you through the process. on a flashdrive).Дownload Win2USB from and install it.

#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives iso#

iso from step 1 somewhere the windows account from step 3 can see it (i.e. I used a bootcamped macmini running windows 7. Get access to a windows device as an administrator. Anyway, make at least one partition on the drive named 'WINDOWS' with at least 20 GB of space (could use less, but if you want to be able to do anything later, more is better.) The format of the partition is unimportant at this point. I did this using MacOS's Disk Utility because I knew how. Partition the drive you intend to install windows on. It gets very confused and tries to install windows to your internal drive around step 10 if you do. DO NOT have your bootcamp usb stick plugged in during this entire process.

#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives windows 8.1#

iso of Windows 8.1 (it can also do earlier versions, but this is the one I know). The drivers are what we care about.)ДЄ windows machine with administrator privileges and (preferably) USB 3.0 ports img of windows 8.1 (should work with other versions, but this guide won't be quite right)ДЄ windows install usb stick you created with boot camp (make sure you had the second option, 'Download drivers,' checked. I think it probably does exactly what you described, but it does it for you. I haven't tried that and it might make the difference, but I found an 'easier' way:

#Using parallels on a mac with 2 hard drives full#

Will these programs also copy the Windows partition (NTFS) as well? I need to replace my original hard drive as it getting full and I do not want to reinstall everything from scratch.I found the following recipe at the link below.

I also have a concern that on my current boot disk is Windows XP running under parallels. Or the bottom of two, in this configuration. of the boot drive where original system was installed is the 'Lower' one. If your Mac Mini has 'dual factory hard disk' drives, the original default location. Since the new disk cannot have the exact same name as any other mounted disk I will have to use a name other than Mackintosh HD to clone the original disk to the new one. (31,551 points) 6:21 AM in response to Cinti Dave. Since OS X is UNIX based, I was led to believe that programs are referenced to the original mounted disk they were installed on (in my case В“Macintosh HDВ”). From what I gather, after using either one of the programs, the system will boot, but no one has indicated whether all of the programs will still run. Just about every one seems to recommend CCC or Superduper!. I have searched the forum for a method of making a complete bootable clone of my hard disk.