Mac Os Bootcamp External Drive
Oct 23, 2019 I have a Mac Mini 2018 128gb SSD. I regret purchasing the smallest hard drive, especially since now I'd like to use bootcamp. I tried to bootcamp and it left me with about 10gb of space. First I considered using a standard SSD to offload some MacOS apps to gain some space. Jul 22, 2009 SO is it possible to install Mac OS onto an external hard drive and boot from that drive when I want to use my macbook as a mac and just use the internal drive for windows? I haven't figured out anyway to run windows off an external drive so I was hoping maybe the mac. Aug 14, 2013 Hello, My wife has an iMac with OS X Lion on it. We partitioned her HD to run bootcamp with Windows 7 to play some games. Bought a Seagate Backup Plus external USB HD for extra space for games on the Windows 7 end and Time Machine for her iMac.
Hello,
My wife has an iMac with OS X Lion on it. We partitioned her HD to run bootcamp with Windows 7 to play some games. Bought a Seagate Backup Plus external USB HD for extra space for games on the Windows 7 end and Time Machine for her iMac. Time Machine does not work with the Paragon driver the ext HD came with so I decided to partition it into two parts; one for Mac, the other for Windows.
I looked up about the different HD formats for Mac and Windows. Used Disk Utility to partition the ext HD 50/50. Named the top partition Mac and chose the format Mac OS Extended (Journaled), named the bottom Windows and chose the format NTSF.
After running Time Machine on the Mac partition I restarted the iMac to Windows 7. I did not eject and unplug the ext HD before restarting, not sure if it played into my problem or not but thought I’d mention.
Once Windows 7 started I opened up My Computer and I did not see the ext HD listed. I ran Disk Management and saw the ext HD listed but it did not show any partitions. Just shows the entire ext HD unallocated.
Set your bootable USB as your startup disk for the next boot in “Apple Menu - System Preferences - Startup Disk,” then click “Restart” to reboot your Mac. Your Mac will reboot from the USB instead of your default startup disk. Alternatively, you can also use the Startup Manager to select your boot drive when you start macOS. Jun 19, 2018 How to update Flash on your Mac if you've already got it installed Open System Preferences from your Dock or Applications folder. Click the Flash Player icon. Click the Updates tab. Sep 06, 2019 Download the relevant macOS or OS X installer from Apple, then use Terminal to create a USB installer you can boot up from. Or use the OS X installation disc that came with your machine — or buy a new one — to boot up and install OS X on your Mac’s hard drive. Just to make sure it’s bootable, eject the install disc, but leave the flash drive installer plugged in. Restart your computer while holding down the Option button on your keyboard. You should see. Mar 12, 2020 Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal Connect the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer. Make sure that it has at least. Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Type or paste one of the following commands in. Run mac os from usb.
What do I need to do in order for Windows to see the necessary partition?
Bootcamp Macbook Pro Drivers
Been reading up on the different “options” for the partitions; i.e. GUID and MBR.
Mac Os Boot Camp External Drive Windows 10
Hovsep,
I originally read that link you provided before I was having the issues. I solved the problem yesterday. I changed the Windows partition on the external HD to MS-DOS, ejected the HD, rebooted into Windows 7, plugged in the HD, Windows saw HD right away, went into Disk Management and changed the Windows partition from MS-DOS to NTSF.
Thanks for everyone's help.
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I am a bit surprised you are having issues because your iMac and OS X version suggests that the drive is most likely formatted using the GUID/GPT partition scheme which Windows 7 should have no issues with reading.
Actually, being curious I just tested it with Lion and Windows 7 (no bootcamp):
I partitioned a drive with one OS X Extended partition, one ExFAT using the GUID partition scheme and Windows detected the ExFAT partition right away.Maybe it's a derp from bootcamp? Anyway, the options you were reading up on are most likely the solution to your problem.
Since you only used Time Machine so far and Windows couldn't even access the drive I assume you have no problem with formatting the drive again losing all data currently stored on it?
Go into Disk Utility, select the external drive and click on the partition tab.
Select 2 partitions etc. as you did before ~ OS X Extended for Time Machine, ExFAT or Free space for Windows. At the bottom click options and select 'Master Boot Record'. Then finally apply the settings and let the drive partition.Maybe bootcamp only likes MBR partitions ~ hope this solves your issue.
have you tried to use windows restore point to revert back just before the problem started?
How to view HFS+ hard drives from Windows
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/access-mac-os-x-partition-from-windows.htmlNot quite what I am asking.
Bought the external HD because it is compatible with Mac and Windows because of the pre-installed Paragon driver (allowing Mac to read and write on NTSF). However, there was a note saying Time Machine wouldn't be able to be used. So I reformatted the external HD.
I'm wanting to know why the partitioned disk is not showing up in My Computer. In Disk Management the entire external HD is unallocated. Only option when right clicking not grayed out is to format it.
how you reformatted the external hard drive? which file systel
The best ways to format an external drive for Windows and Mac
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