bootcampdisk-utilitydual-boothard drivepartition
I replaced my CD drive with a Western Digital 750GB hard drive using the iFixit guide.
My Mac for some reason throws error on any interaction with the hard drive,
for example on disk utility when I tried to create 1 partition of FAT:
When I try to setup BootCamp I get this error:
I have successfully managed to erase and format the hard drive while booting up to GParted, but I want to install windows on it.
Do you have any suggestions? Ideas?
You're not the first person to have problems with this drive in a Mac - see http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/217444-macbook-pro-hard-drive-replacement-wont-format.html
It's possible there is a compatibility issue, as you seem to be doing all the right things (and it is connected properly otherwise you wouldn't see it in Disk Utility at all).
The damaged hard drive bracket would not be the cause of the error above.
Try a non-AV drive (one designed for notebooks rather then surveillance/home theatre use) and see if that makes a difference.
For all my partitioning, I use and recommend iPartition. It will allow you to resize partitions without deleting any data. It will automatically move partitions if necessary to allow resizing into free space that is located after the partition.
iPartition’s ability to automatically rearrange your existing partitions when necessary, makes iPartition the easiest partitioning tool that you’ll ever use.
Best Answer
I recently ran into this issue as well. I originally suspected a damaged SATA cable, but swapping the SSD into the optical drive bay and the HD into the primary hard drive bay solved the issue for me.