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    Installing Windows 7 on External HD (And booting on it)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by fgielow, Oct 18, 2010.

  1. fgielow

    fgielow Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is there any way to accomplish this?
    BootCamp does not recognize external HDs.. >.<

    I really need to use windows for some thing or another, but I did not want to occupy space from my macbook's HD with it. Hence, I want to boot on it from an external HD.

    Plus, I want to be able to boot in Windows 7 indeed, I do not want to access it only as a virtual machine.



    Thanks very much!
    Fernando.
     
    fgielow, Oct 18, 2010
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  2. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    From what I've read, no, it can't be done.
     
    Nick, Oct 18, 2010
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