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<blockquote data-quote="pseu do nym" data-source="post: 1578238" data-attributes="member: 324566"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I have a late 2012 MBP with retina display/apple SSD. My OS is 10.9.2. </p><p></p><p>My issue = that i have a certain program that I need to use for work that is windows only. My work computer is also my personal computer. Basically, I need to run Windows 7 on my MBP. I do not want to bi-partition my internal drive because I've heard SSD performance decreases as % available space decreases.</p><p></p><p>Thus, I came up with the idea of making a bootable Windows 7 partition on an external hard drive. My company was nice enough to buy me an external HD with thunderbolt and USB and a copy of Windows 7. </p><p></p><p>What I've done so far:</p><p></p><p>1-I successfully made a bipartition w/ Windows 7 + the Mac drivers installed on my internal HD (this has gotten <em>much</em> more buggy compared when I used Bootcamp a few years ago).</p><p></p><p>2-I then used Disk Utility's ''restore'' feature. I set the operational Windows 7 partition on my internal HD as the ''source'' and a partition on my external HD as the ''destination''. </p><p></p><p>When I try to boot from the external drive, it always fails. I can do a similar process in reverse and it works (i.e. erase the Windows 7 partition on my internal HD, create a new partition on my internal HD, use Disk Utility's ''restore'' with my external as ''source'' and the new internal partition as ''destination'').</p><p></p><p></p><p>Any help would be much appreciated!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pseu do nym, post: 1578238, member: 324566"] Hello, I have a late 2012 MBP with retina display/apple SSD. My OS is 10.9.2. My issue = that i have a certain program that I need to use for work that is windows only. My work computer is also my personal computer. Basically, I need to run Windows 7 on my MBP. I do not want to bi-partition my internal drive because I've heard SSD performance decreases as % available space decreases. Thus, I came up with the idea of making a bootable Windows 7 partition on an external hard drive. My company was nice enough to buy me an external HD with thunderbolt and USB and a copy of Windows 7. What I've done so far: 1-I successfully made a bipartition w/ Windows 7 + the Mac drivers installed on my internal HD (this has gotten [I]much[/I] more buggy compared when I used Bootcamp a few years ago). 2-I then used Disk Utility's ''restore'' feature. I set the operational Windows 7 partition on my internal HD as the ''source'' and a partition on my external HD as the ''destination''. When I try to boot from the external drive, it always fails. I can do a similar process in reverse and it works (i.e. erase the Windows 7 partition on my internal HD, create a new partition on my internal HD, use Disk Utility's ''restore'' with my external as ''source'' and the new internal partition as ''destination''). Any help would be much appreciated! [/QUOTE]
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