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thecounthahaha

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jul 17, 2010
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Hi all,

I've been reading a lot about how to boot to windows and it looks complicated but doable!

I can't for various reasons change my Mac boot ssd to be partitioned to allow a windows install, and I see that creating an external boot is massively tricky.

Is this the same for a second internal drive? My 2012 mbp has had the DVD drive removed and is happily running a second ssd that could be partitioned...

Having not used a windows machine since 2009, and not really in any pro way at the time, I'm somewhat out of my depth a bit!

Essentially it's purely for a bit of steam gaming against some PC friends so I'm liking to keep tr cost down!

Last question - assuming I can get a windows boot drive going - if and when I upgrade to a new machine will it continue to be useable externally?

Thanks for your help!
 
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