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Running Windows from firewire 800

Bengt77

Bengt77

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Not through Boot Camp, no. A Parallels or VMWare image on the FireWire drive would work, but I don't believe that's what you want.
 
maflynn

maflynn

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In the past, windows was not able to run off of a removable disk. People have done it, but it took serious hacking. I'm sure win7 is the same way, i.e., no go on the fw800 disk.
 
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Tralmek

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Good to know, thanks for the input.

So a better tactic would seem to be partitioning some of my internal drive to windows, and then use the external for storage, rather than the Windows OS.
 
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