Can I install windows 7 on the superdive replacement hard drive

Hello people,

Recently I replaced the drive of my macbook pro 13 inch mid-2012 with an adapter (caddy tray) to put in a second hard drive (500 GB todhiba).

Now I am trying to install windows 7 with bootcamp (on an os x 10.9.5, bootcamp 5.1.2), but when I boot from the usb device, when windows ask me which drive I want to install it, it says: windows cannot be installed to this disk, drive must be formatted ntfs + your computer hardware seem unable to run windows 7 check your system components and try again.

I've tried several things: the direct USB win7 reformat, delete the partition, create partition... still no luck.

Of in osx: reformat the disk with unallocated space (MBR) and try again to install direct USB... had the same error messages.

I even tried to install Ubuntu gnome rather with a live usb works but all I get when holding the option button while booting is my Macintosh HD, the drive appears.

Can someone give me about workaround or even show me the way? I am out of ideas now.

Thank you very much

Simon.

Please see Installer Windows 7 Pro on the second HARD drive which is in Optibay for some answers.

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