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Is there any way to install bootcamp on a new SSD in my iMac?

I changed in my iMac's optical drive with an SSD. Now I have the original 1 TB HDD (which is for my backup), 2 SSD's: One 500 GB with MacOS and the second 1 TB where I'm trying without success to install again bootcamp.

I'm always getting strange errors like:

  • Windows cannot be installed. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems Windows can only be installed to gpt disk
  • Windows cannot be installed to this hdd. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS.
  • When I format partition and installation proceed ( same as in forums support from apple) I got some strange error code 0x000005

I must to mention I never had this issue before when I put MS Windows with bootcamp on my system.

These support forums from Apple doesn't help :

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You're hitting a known limitation of BootCamp. The boot drive needs to host both MacOS & MS Windows. You can then use a second drive (partitioned) to hold your Mac & Windows apps and/or data.

Update (08/04/2017)

Back with Lion, you could cheat by booting up with the second drive (both have OS-X) do the BootCamp & Windows install then reboot under the primary drive go into an editor and alter the drive pathing.

Windows 7 & onwards uses a different approach in the OS installer than Windows XP. I was never able to do it with Windows 7. I think you're just expecting more than what the BootCamp was intended to do.

I would recommend you get Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion. These are real VM servers and allow much more than what BootCamp offers.

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Hello Dan,this is not a real solution ,is just a compromise.I had before BOOTCAMP installed on second SSD and run properly without problem.So it must be a bug which doesn´t allowed to finish install windows bootcamp on SSD again.The things is this last sierra upgrade not works properly like was old version of MACOS..Aple is doing a lot of negative things trying to block access of windows on their machine !

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