Is there a way I can run boot camp on just an external hard drive? Also, what would you guys recommend for external hard drives for my Macbook? I'll probably be running to circuit city or best buy sometime this week...
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External Macbook hard drive?
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I'm pretty sure Boot Camp must be run on the OSX boot up drive, possibly even just the internal drive. 
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and it's quiet, fast and hasn't broken down yet. it may be too much for what you're doing, but it's a great price and i found it at best buy w/ an instant rebate for $99.99.
and it's quiet, fast and hasn't broken down yet. it may be too much for what you're doing, but it's a great price and i found it at best buy w/ an instant rebate for $99.99.
I think I may just format and partition an old drive and get an external enclosure.
Here's my question, though...
Can I split an external drive to be, say 70% Mac formatted, and 30% Windows formatted and then have my internal drive handle things like my iTunes and iPhoto library and booting, and then my external hold my games for Windows an everything else for my Mac? So I'd still be booting off of the internal for both systems, but at the same time, be using the external drive for both. That possible?
Here's my question, though...
Can I split an external drive to be, say 70% Mac formatted, and 30% Windows formatted and then have my internal drive handle things like my iTunes and iPhoto library and booting, and then my external hold my games for Windows an everything else for my Mac? So I'd still be booting off of the internal for both systems, but at the same time, be using the external drive for both. That possible?
kvanwagoner said:
I don't think you are reading what he was asking correctly. He was talking about booting windows from the internal drive but having an external drive with two seperate, differently formatted partitions.
Regardless here's my suggestion. Format the external drive wholly in HFS+, install MediaFour's MacDrive and you'll have access to it in both OS's, allowing you to share iTunes libraries, other media files, and what-not. It's what I do with my internal drive on my MBP. I only have 20gb for my windows partition, but have 30+gb of free space on my HFS+ parition. Anything larger than a text file goes there. Simple soultion and gives you the best of both worlds.
while you may not be able to run bootcamp from an external drive, it IS possible to boot windows from an external usb drive. i've done it.
see link for more info...
http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1381
see link for more info...
http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1381