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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 much 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!
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 much 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!