Installing Bootcamp on second internal iMac Drive?

2019 5K iMac. OS Big Sure 11.3.1. 500 GB NVMe installed by Apple and 2 TB SSD installed by myself. Trying to install windows with bootcamp, but the smaller NVMe is the only drive it is allowing me to select. used to be able to do this.


Is there a way to install only on the bigger ssd? or maybe go ahead and use the NVMe for install but use the 2 TB for all the files?


Would rather have all the windows stuff on the SSD. Thank you.

iMac 27″, macOS 11.3

Posted on May 27, 2021 11:36 PM

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May 28, 2021 10:54 AM in response to yoshionthego


If you run into any issues, please post back.

May 28, 2021 6:06 AM in response to yoshionthego

You will need to create a Fusion drive with the NVMe as the 'main' and the SSD as 'secondary'. This will allow BC Assistant to use the SSD for Bootcamp installation.


See the reference to the Bootcamp partition in the following entry for diskutil.


diskutil apfs createContainer 
Usage:  diskutil apfs createContainer <disk> [<disk>]
        diskutil apfs createContainer -main <disk> [-secondary <disk>]
        where <disk> = MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode
Create an empty APFS Container. You can then add APFS Volumes with the
diskutil apfs addVolume verb. If you specify two disks, then a "Fusion"
Container is created, with the performance usages assigned automatically
unless you use the -main and -secondary options, in which case, the secondary
disk is assumed to be on "slower" hardware. The secondary disk is often used
to store associated "auxiliary" data, such as a Boot Camp Assistant partition.
Ownership of any affected disks is required.
Example:  diskutil apfs createContainer disk0s2

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