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Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
Can you use Boot Camp with an external drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 320251" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>As per my post above, I'm not sure that it will ever be a simple process or fix that Apple can introduce since it seems that, even on a PC, XP is not designed to be installed on a USB or Firewire external drive. I don't believe that Vista is any different, I have read a number of threads on different PC forums that indicate that although Vista will detect and allow for installation on external drives, the process fails during installation. Simply put, Microsoft hasn't designed any version of Windows to run on an external device. To be quite honest, I feel like a real dope for suggesting that it was possible to do this in the first place, I should have known better.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if E-SATA external drives are any different?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 320251, member: 24098"] As per my post above, I'm not sure that it will ever be a simple process or fix that Apple can introduce since it seems that, even on a PC, XP is not designed to be installed on a USB or Firewire external drive. I don't believe that Vista is any different, I have read a number of threads on different PC forums that indicate that although Vista will detect and allow for installation on external drives, the process fails during installation. Simply put, Microsoft hasn't designed any version of Windows to run on an external device. To be quite honest, I feel like a real dope for suggesting that it was possible to do this in the first place, I should have known better. I wonder if E-SATA external drives are any different? [/QUOTE]
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