Boot Camp - Intall windows on a external sd card

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Boot Camp - Intall windows on a external sd card

I'm trying to use boot camp to crate a windows 10 boot usb drive, but boot camp only let me instal on the local hard drive. I've only have 256Gb but i don't have space for a new partition so I bought a 200Gb sd card to use windows. On my older macbook i could create a install disk to boot from it. On this new one don't have the option of creating a usb.

How ca i do this? i need to install windows 10 urgently.

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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Aug 27, 2016 3:38 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 27, 2016 5:19 PM in response to marcojoel

Neither Boot Camp Assistant nor Windows support installation of Windows on an external drive. Install Windows on your internal drive or use a Virtual Machine like Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox to install Windows on your external drive. Windows will run slower in a virtual machine on an external drive.

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Aug 29, 2016 2:33 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

OK...well i tried to install windows on bootcamp on my local hard rive but bootcamp only has the option of creating the bootcamp partition. where is the option to create the window usb boot device? how can i even try to do this if boot camp don't have that option anymore?

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Loner T

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Aug 29, 2016 4:05 AM in response to marcojoel

marcojoel wrote:

OK...well i tried to install windows on bootcamp on my local hard rive but bootcamp only has the option of creating the bootcamp partition. where is the option to create the window usb boot device? how can i even try to do this if boot camp don't have that option anymore?

You need to follow the installation guide. USB Installers are supported on 2012-2014 Macs. 2015 and later Macs use an internal partition called OSXRESERVED instead of a USB.

Please see https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/assistant/6.0/ as a reference.

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marcojoel Author

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Aug 29, 2016 6:27 PM in response to Loner T

i successfuly installed windows10 on my drive. it is working. if i press alt on startup it appears both mac and windows drive. however, when im on my mac desktop, it don't apear the drive of bootcamp nor in the system preferences/boot disk. why and how can i make the boot drive be visible?

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