Will upgrading to Monterey from Big Sur break external Bootcamp?

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I think I've asked this question before here so I'm reposting in case more info has come to light. My external SSD BC is running fine and has done since June but I'm not sure if upgrading to Monterey from OS 11.6 will break it. Any thoughts much appreciated.
 
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Running Boot Camp on an external drive as you know is not supported by Apple or Microsoft. If you have it running okay now there is no guarantee that it will continue to do so after upgrading to Monterey.

Monterey is now up to 12.1 and has increased security and a complete lock down of the System. You might be wise to leave well enough alone if you really need Boot Camp to work.
 
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Yes, thank you CH. I actually only use BC for gaming, but none the less I enjoy it. My doubts are the same about upgrading so I will probably not update since 11.6 does everything I need until I am forced to by Adobe CC which hopefully will not be for a while. Thank you for your reply.
 
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Boot Camp is most likely going to fall to the wayside in terms of official support given the move to ARM so the newer the versions of macOS you start using, the greater the risk that things stop working. I only say that to suggest that if Boot Camp is really important for what you need, you might need to weigh upgrading or, better yet, do thorough research beforehand to see how well BC is (or isn't) working.

So, in short, I'll echo chscag's suggestion.
 
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Once I had the driver issues sorted BC on Win 10 worked perfectly apart from a bluetooth problem but I work around that. I'm heading for 73 in a few weeks so perhaps then I'll grown up and stop playing games....about time I hear you say...!
Thanks for your input gentlemen.
 
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vansmith said:
Boot Camp is most likely going to fall to the wayside in terms of official support given the move to ARM so the newer the versions of macOS you start using, the greater the risk that things stop working. I only say that to suggest that if Boot Camp is really important for what you need, you might need to weigh upgrading or, better yet, do thorough research beforehand to see how well BC is (or isn't) working.

So, in short, I'll echo chscag's suggestion.
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How wonderful to have you back after all these months/years. Keep posting.

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Hi Bryan:

Long time no see in the forums. Glad that you're still thinking of us once in awhile. We miss you.

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Thanks team! I'm glad to be back and hope to be a continued presence here again after an overly long absence.
 
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I know this thread may not have much interest to people, but I thought I'd draw a line under it anyway. The upgrade from 11.6 to 12.4 had no affect on the external BC. In fact once booted into Win10, Apple updated the drivers.
 
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Kryten said:
I know this thread may not have much interest to people, but I thought I'd draw a line under it anyway. The upgrade from 11.6 to 12.4 had no affect on the external BC. In fact once booted into Win10, Apple updated the drivers.
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What driver?
Can you also clarify if you have M1 or Intel? That's a crucial difference.
 
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What driver?
Can you also clarify if you have M1 or Intel? That's a crucial difference.
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Boot camp drivers to make Windows work properly. It's obviously Intel, since M1 doesn't have Boot Camp support since there is no official released version of Windows that supports the M1 chip. There is a beta ARM version that can be used.
 
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Reason why I wanted to use Virtualization, but I failed with Linux, no GUI working as of today...
I used UTM but the GUI issue is still not fixed after years...
Only MacOS works in virtualization, but it's pointless to virtualize the same OS and architecture...
One thing is sure, it's incredibly fast, it feels a native OS.
 
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Gnomac43 said:
Reason why I wanted to use Virtualization, but I failed with Linux, no GUI working as of today...
I used UTM but the GUI issue is still not fixed after years...
Only MacOS works in virtualization, but it's pointless to virtualize the same OS and architecture...
One thing is sure, it's incredibly fast, it feels a native OS.
Click to expand...
Grab VirtualBox for free, and grab the Desktop version of Ubuntu and you'll have a full featured GUI-based Linux distro in no time at all.
 

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