Apple is trying to get us to dongle attach 'all the things' but what happens when that philosophy doesn't jive with all of your computing needs? One such situation is when wanting to run Windows 10 natively on your Mac (in my case my Mac mini). The 'normal' method would be to use Boot Camp to repartition your internal hard drive to make room for Windows 10. However, in some instances, repartitioning may not be an option. For example due to disk size limitations. Attaching a Thunderbolt 3 connected drive is the obvious solution but Windows 10 does NOT like to be installed onto detachable devices. Here's how to force the install of Windows 10 onto your externally attached drive!
What you'll need
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Hardware
Of course you'll need an externally connected drive. I went with a 240GB SATA SSD ($30) that I placed into Thunderbolt 3 capable external SATA enclosure ($9).
SoftwareMac Boot Camp
First up we'll need an ISO copy of Windows 10.
Next, you can download the 30 day free trial of VMware Fusion.
Next, we'll need to get a Windows utility called Win-to-USB. Although there is a free version, installing Windows latest 1809 October update will require use to but the non-free version ($30). You are free to use the free version for older Windows 10 ISO's suck as 1803.
Pioneer xdj r1 traktor pro mapping. Finally, we'll need the Boot Camp Windows support files.
Boot camp boot back to mac. In Windows on your Mac, do one of the following: Restart using Startup Manager: Restart your Mac, then immediately press and hold the Option key. Restart using Boot Camp Control Panel: Click in the right side of the taskbar, click the Boot Camp icon, then choose Restart in macOS. Jan 20, 2011 Open the Control Panel, click on Startup Disk, and change the setting; this item will only appear if the Boot Camp drivers are installed. Alternatively, restart the computer with the X or Option keys held down; in the second case, select the Mac OS X system, push the button with the straight arrow, and change the startup disk from System Preferences afterwards. Jul 14, 2006 Pick Mac OS X and boot. Now, once you’re up and running, go to Apple – System Preferences – Startup Disk and you’ll see the following: Select Mac OS X rather than Windows XP, and you should automatically boot into Mac OS X each time until you again use the “Option” at boot time to select Windows XP by hand. Hope that helps you out. Basic training. Run Boot Camp Assistant (in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder) to make sure that you have the latest firmware on your computer. Follow the prompts in Boot Camp Assistant to create a partition for Windows. You’re essentially carving out an area of your hard drive.
The setupThe external drive
VMware Fusion
Windows 10 VM
Your Windows 10 VM should now be up and running. We will now prepare the external drive and put a basic installation of Window s10 on it.
Next, we need to attach our Windows ISO to the Windows 10 VM.
Move files into the VM
Install Win-to-USB in the Windows 10 VM
Next, we run Win-to-USB.
Copy the WindowsSupport files from Boot Camp onto the newly updated windows partition on your externally attached drive.
Finally, shut down VMware Fusion.
Mac OS changes
Now we can set the boot order to boot from the external drive.
Finishing up
That's it! Once the machine reboots you'll be presented with a Windows 10 install sequence. Follow the prompts like you normally would and you'll be able to run Windows 10 natively on your Mac. Here are some notes to follow up on.
Final comments
Now you can run native Windows 10 and native macOS Mojave. The best of both worlds with little compromise. If you have any tips on getting this working in a better or faster way. Please let us know in the comments!
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