![]() During the Windows installation, the drivers for Apple wireless keyboards and mice aren’t installed until the very end of the process. A licensed copy of Windows 10 ISO or an install DVD.VirtualBox virtualization app (available for free).We’re using a USB 3.0 drive, but a Thunderbolt drive should work as well. What You Need to Install Boot Camp on an External Drive Also, make sure you have a current backup before beginning. Be sure to read through the process before undertaking it. This is an advanced process with quite a few pitfalls that can trip you up. It allows you to install Windows on an external drive without first having Windows installed on a PC or in a virtual environment. But the method we’re going to outline here is a bit different. They range from creating clones of an existing PC installation or using Microsoft IT tools for installing Windows. There are actually a few ways you can successfully install Windows on an external drive. Installing Windows on an external drive would be a great solution to the problem of available space, but as we said, Boot Camp and Windows impose a restriction on installing to an external drive. While Boot Camp Assistant can partition your startup drive for you to make room for Windows, there are bound to be many of you who just don’t have room to spare on your startup drive to install Windows. ![]() One of the downsides to Boot Camp and the Windows installer is that it restricts you to only installing Windows on your Mac’s internal drive. It’s a nice capability that lets you select – at boot time – which operating system you wish to use: macOS or Windows. Boot Camp and Boot Camp Assistant allow you to install Windows on your Mac. Please also see Boot Camp for Mac: Set the default operating system. In Windows Bootcamp Control panel, if you click on the OS X icon, it selects the OS X as the default OS. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch & 15-inch, Late 2013).MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch & 15-inch, Mid 2014).Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, 64 bit.MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch and 15-inch, Early 2013).MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012).I would uninstall Windows7 if so.ĭo you have a Wireless Network Adapter in the Windows Device Manager? Is the printer on a Wireless network or is it on an ad-hoc network between the iMac and the printer? If you think another go with Bootcamp 5 would improve things, let me know if possible. I had thought the default when closing Win, Mac would open Mac using no key like ‘Option/alt’, but I do have to use Option held down to go back to Mac. When I shutdown Windows, and then restart, the system reopens Windows, not iMac. (not Boot Camp Support Software for a 2013 model. For another try, I’ve downloadedīoot Camp Support Software. The Mac partition read it right away.Īll in all, things seem ok, though I am tempted to use a flash drive to load the drivers again, this time with the your note to use driver 5 (I think I used the correct 5 before but not sure). Windows still seems it has more to do, hard to explain, for example, it doesn’t recognize the wireless printer. Next morning the items were installed, and another batch were going to download, maybe 80 or so. It is an iMac 21.5 inch, mid 2011 and I am using a wireless connection to the network.įyi, with your help the other day, I did get Win7 (64) opened and upon shutdown, the screen said to wait while 176 items were downloaded.
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