Booting from a Firewire external hard disk - Windows Drive

[MacAndy74]

So here is my bright idea. I still may want to have Windows on my iMac for work projects *sigh*

I think I came up with a solution, I rather not partition my iMac (when I buy it) 1TB drive for Windows. Don't want Windows on my main disk - I need the storage for Mac things, personal stuff etc.

Is it possible to boot from a Firewire connected external HDD to run Windows?

 

[old-wiz]

not without a lot of hassle. Bootcamp only supports booting from the base drive.

 

[MacAndy74]

not without a lot of hassle. Bootcamp only supports booting from the base drive.

Darn. I thought I was onto such a smart idea.

 

[MacAndy74]

Or maybe there's a way I can install Windows {pick_name} on a PC onto the Firewire drive and then connect to the iMac - there must be a key combination to boot from external device on iMac?

 

[old-wiz]

If you try that, it definitely will not work. You can't simply boot into a Windows bootable disk from another machine. Try searching mroogle for something like "windows external drive".