I'm running bootcamp on a mac mini 2018. The mini has 128 GB storage with 75 GB on the bootcamp partition and I would like to increase that. Would an external toshiba hard drive (2TB HDD usb) work or should I get a new SSD drive? I guess the latter, but am checking in hopes of saving a few shekels. Will appreciate any advice. Thanks. Fred
Mac mini 2018 or later
Neither Boot Camp nor Microsoft support installing Windows on an external drive.
If you are going to change the Boot Camp partition size, be sure to use Boot Camp Assistant to do that. If you use Disk Utility or other utility to resize apartitions on a drive with a Boot Camp partition, you will lose your data and will likely have to erase the drive and reinstall the MacOS.
I am currently running Boot Camp on a mac mini 2018 that has 128 GB storage. The Boot Camp partition is 75 GB and is having problems because of storage limitations. I am getting a 500 GB SSD drive to address this. Windows 10 and all my other apps are in the Boot Camp partition and I would like to move that partition wholly onto the SSD drive without losing apps or data. I expect that would leave the mini’s 128 GB for the mac OS. If I do that, will Boot Camp boot off of the SSD? BobTheFisherman has advised the neither Boot Camp or Microsoft supports installing Windows on an SSD, but I understand that increasing the Boot Camp partition allocation would work. I would appreciate input as to the advisability of this approach. Thanks in advance. Fred
Bob, thanks for responding. I guess my question wasn't very clear. What I want is to increase the amount of storage available to the mini and then change the partition allocation.
Thanks Bob. I will do that. But what about the external drive. Can I use the old toshiba or do I buy a new SSD drive?
Increase bootcamp partition size on mac mini using old toshiba hdd usb drive ?
