

If need be, back up all your files to an external hard drive or the cloud to make room for Windows 10.Ĭhoose the USB flash drive to create the Windows 10 installer with the Boot Camp drivers to allow Windows to run on Mac Hardware.Īllow Boot Camp to complete the installation your Mac will reboot and install Windows. This will partition your hard drive and take away space from OSX, this will be temporary.

Run the boot camp installer, if prompted, point at the ISO download of Windows 10 in your Download directory. Run the Apple boot camp wizard (Hit the magnify glass in the upper right corner and type “Boot Camp”

() A download of Windows 10 from Microsoftĭownload the Windows 10 ISO on to your Macbook Jeremiah’s recipe for installing Windows 10 on a external USB hard drive:Įxternal USB 3.0 Hard drive (100GB+) I used a 1GB WD Passort from Fry’s $59.99Ĭopy of the amazing Winclone Standard $39.99 This guide is not for external SSD drives! It’s for inexpensive, standard platter USB drives you can pick up at Bestbuy, Microcenter, Fry’s or preferable one you already have 🙂 I wrote this primarily because, up to now, I haven’t seen a guide that works for non-ssd based external USB drives.This is very useful for backing up iPhones and iPads without using all the space on a SSD MacBook. Wouldn’t it be nice to boot windows from an inexpensive, fast USB 3.0 drive?Ĭontrary to Apple and Microsoft, this can be done simply. The use of propriety SSD’s on MacBooks limits the amount of space to dual boot Windows and MacOS on the same hard drive.
