Running Windows from firewire 800

[Tralmek]

Is this possible?

I'm considering getting a Seagate FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac 500-GB FireWire 800 external hard drive and using that for a Windows 7 installation on my 17" MBP manufactured in November 09.

 

[Bengt77]

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.

 

[flopticalcube]

I don't think Windows can boot off of external drives of any nature, FW or USB.

 

[maflynn]

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.

 

[Tralmek]

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.

 

[maflynn]

That's what most of us do 😀