Boot Camp install of Win 7 TO USB external drive?
Hi,
I recently bought a 32 GB USB thumb drive. I was able to install a full copy of SL on the drive and use it to boot several different Macs in my household -- it's a little slow, but it works fine. The procedure was dead simple -- format the drive and away you go.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do the same thing with Boot Camp/Windows, i.e. install a copy of Windows on the USB thumb drive such that it will boot and run on a Mac.
I read somewhere else here that it isn't possible -- that Boot Camp can only run on an internal drive. I guess my question is: if all my Macs can install and boot OSX from an external USB drive, why isn't it possible to the same with Windows?
(As I type this it occurs that I didn't try booting the Mac from the USB drive, partitioning the thumb drive in Boot Camp and installing Windows from there. It would be pretty slow going, but maybe that's a solution?)
Thanks for any/all illumination!
I recently bought a 32 GB USB thumb drive. I was able to install a full copy of SL on the drive and use it to boot several different Macs in my household -- it's a little slow, but it works fine. The procedure was dead simple -- format the drive and away you go.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do the same thing with Boot Camp/Windows, i.e. install a copy of Windows on the USB thumb drive such that it will boot and run on a Mac.
I read somewhere else here that it isn't possible -- that Boot Camp can only run on an internal drive. I guess my question is: if all my Macs can install and boot OSX from an external USB drive, why isn't it possible to the same with Windows?
(As I type this it occurs that I didn't try booting the Mac from the USB drive, partitioning the thumb drive in Boot Camp and installing Windows from there. It would be pretty slow going, but maybe that's a solution?)
Thanks for any/all illumination!
MBA 1.86/SSD, 20" iMac G5, 15" MBP Santa Rosa, iPhone 8GB, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
