Can I install Windows on an external hard drive with Boot Camp?
You can not use the Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on an external drive. You can use the Boot Camp Assistant to download the Windows Support Software. You can use the Disk Utility and Finder to create an ExFAT formatted USB flash drive Windows 10 installer.
How do I install Windows from a USB drive on a Mac?
Open Boot Camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Follow the onscreen instructions. If you’re asked to insert a USB drive, plug your USB flash drive into your Mac. Boot Camp Assistant will use it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation.
How to install BootCamp Windows 7 from USB flash drive?
Installing BootCamp Windows 7 iso from USB. 1 Open Disk Utility. 2 Select the disk you want to format for use with Windows computers. 3 Click Erase, and choose one of the following from the Format pop-up menu: 3.1 If the size of the disk is 32 GB or less, choose MS-DOS (FAT). 3.2 If the size of the disk is over 32 GB, choose ExFAT.
How do I create a boot disk for bootcamp?
To create a boot disk on USB do this: open bootcamp app contents (finder, right-click on bootcamp app at applications folder) Copy info.plist file to another place (like desktop), rename the original to something like “OLDinfo.plist” to preserve a backup. Right-click that copied file and open it with textedit
How to install boot camp assistant on Windows 7?
1. Open Finder and navigate to Applications -> Utilities and double-click Boot Camp Assistant. 2. Click Continue on the initial introduction window. 3. Set the partition size for the Windows installation. To change the amount of space to dedicate to Windows 7, click the small divider between Mac OS X and Windows, and drag it to the left.
Can I create a bootable USB Windows 7 install disk?
With Lion, Apple has added an option to BootCamp that will create a bootable USB Windows 7 install disk. Unfortunately, Apple only allows this on computers that support booting from a USB drive (a.k.a. they don’t have optical drive) which include the MacBook Air and 2011 Mac Mini.