Long shot... As I don't want to 'waste*' my internal 512GB SSD on games I want to run windows 7 on a macbook (retina) but run it from a USB 3.0 drive (Samsung 256GB 830 SSD / USB 3.0). Doesn't look like it's possible, so I'll have to bootcamp a small windows partition and move my steam folder over to the external SSD. Not an issue, it just would have been nice to be able to boot form a USB 3.0 drive and leave the existing SSD dedicated to OSX. Unless anyone knows a better way??? *I know it's not wasted, but it's not the primary task and therefore going external is best for me.
I know you can boot a MB from USB. And I know you have to create a partition in Boot Camp as you set up Windows. Surely in Boot Camp setup you can just tell it to use a partition on the external drive?
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/06/28/windows-8s-windows-to-go-feature-hands-on/ I will say no more
The issue comes when installing Windows, and the windows installer preventing the OS from being installed on a USB drive. "Windows 7 cannot be installed to a USB partioned Hard drive" I've not tried this myself, but this info is all over the net.
That's bizarre. Weird that MS would do that. All this info all over the net. Is that pertaining to Windows on Mac or just Windows in general, because, if Boot Camp says to Windows that its just a drive, not anything in particular, then it may work. Otherwise could you add the drive as a SATA device, install and then put it back in a USB caddy? I'm not making any promises here. Just trying to think of ways that it might be possible.
Windows in general. Horse's mouth = http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818#7 There's lots of hacks to get it to install but I'm never happy running with these 'Install in only 37 steps!' methods as they're a pain to rebuild / restore. No, not on a rMBP. Well it might be possible with a thunderbolt dock that has an eSATA port but I don't have one of those. And if I did I wouldn't be wanting to get USB 3.0 to work. I think I'll just set up a small bootcamp partition for windows and install apps / steam to the external USB 3.0 SSD.
I know what you mean. Eurgh. It sounds like that is your only option. Unless you run it in a VM, but from what you've said about running Steam on it I doubt you want the performance hit.
