Bootable extrenal drive

I have recently created a windows bootable drive for my macbook, unfortunately the drive does not show in my macbook Air boot menu, has anyone had this issue before ?

Posted on Jan 7, 2022 7:36 AM

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tbirdvet

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Jan 7, 2022 8:05 AM in response to Ant3010

How was it formatted? What Mac do you have? What do you mean "bootable". Mac can read a Windows drive but if you want to run Windows on a Mac you need to use Boot Camp or a VM like Parallels for a Mac running Catalina or earlier.

Jan 7, 2022 9:49 AM in response to Ant3010

Plus Windows can only be used on the Intel Macs. If you have an M1 Mac, then you will not be able to run Windows or Windows apps on it.

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