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1. #PARTITION EXTERNAL DRIVE FOR MAC AND BOOTCAMP WINDOWS INSTALL#
2. #PARTITION EXTERNAL DRIVE FOR MAC AND BOOTCAMP WINDOWS ISO#

If you have multiple internal hard drives, you can select a different hard drive from the one running macOS and create a single partition on that drive to use solely for Windows. It's fairly easy to use and loads of help on the old tinternet. You need to create two NTFS partitions of whatever size you want. In there you should see your external drive. This process may take a long time to complete (you can click the Stop button to interrupt this process).Īt the Create a Partition for Windows step, specify a partition size by dragging the divider between the macOS and Windows partitions. Go to bootcamp, then right click on My Computer, click manage, then go to disk management. The Windows files are copied to the USB drive.

#PARTITION EXTERNAL DRIVE FOR MAC AND BOOTCAMP WINDOWS ISO#

This process may take a long time to complete (you can click the Stop button to skip this process).Īt the Select Tasks step, select all the tasks, then click Continue.Īt the Create Bootable USB Drive for Windows Installation step, choose the Windows ISO image and the USB drive, then click Continue. From what I understand, the Mac has a partition where UEFI systems can boot and in this particular case boots Windows from that partition and then control is passed to whatever is located on the external drive. Older Time Machine snapshots and cached iCloud files are removed to make space for Boot Camp. This will create the boot files in your EFI partition. The system is checked for total available disk space. On your Mac, open Boot Camp Assistant, located in /Applications/Utilities.Īt the introduction screen, click Continue. It’s worthwhile to note here that you can restore your Mac using step 5 above only if you took a backup of all your data before deleting the BootCamp Partition. That’s it After this, you’ll have a single Mac disk.

#PARTITION EXTERNAL DRIVE FOR MAC AND BOOTCAMP WINDOWS INSTALL#

Important: If you’re using a Mac notebook computer, connect it to a power source before continuing.Ĭonnect an external USB drive or insert a flash drive into the USB port on your Mac keep it connected or inserted while you install Windows and the Windows support software. Select the Windows drive, choose Restore disc to a single macOS partition and then click ‘Continue’.