HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10"BOOT CAMP" ON A MAC EXTERNAL DRIVE //EASIEST WAY//2020

  In this POST,I'm gonna show you how to install Windows 10 on an external SSD for your Mac. So if you don't have a lot of internal space on your Mac for Boot Camp, this tutorial can help you out a lot. And I'm gonna show you the full process step by step and here is the end result. But first, a word from our sponsor. Logitech has great products for your Apple devices including the legendary MX Master 3 for Mac. It features way betterer gonomics than the Magic Mouse and it features tons of buttons that you can customize for your workflow.

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 I'm using the Samsung T5,highly recommended SSD. This is the one terabyte version. You want at least 256 gigabytes but one terabyte is a nice, sweet spot. And then you want some way to directly interface with your computer and that's if you're using a MacBook because the the keyboard and the track pad drivers won't be working initially but don't go out and buy a Magic Track pad for this. Just use it if you have it laying around. You can always buy a USB mouse or keyboard that's cheap. So the first thing you wanna do is download the Windows 10 ISO. You can just search for that Windows 10 ISO and click the Microsoft link. And in the first drop down box, select Windows 10 and then click Confirm, and then choose your language in the second drop down box, and then click Confirm. All right, then click 64-bit download and you can see the download progressing here in our Safari window. 

Now this ISO is fairly large so it may take a while depending on your internet connection. All right, so the next thing we wanna do is search for Win To USB. Here's the link we're gonna use. I'll have all these direct links down below in the description so don't worry. Click Download here. And next we're gonna download VMware Fusion, so just search for a VMware Fusion trial and then you wanna click here. And again I'll have that link down below in the description. And then just click Download Now under Try Fusion. All right, and that will download. So we got our three main downloads that we're going to get from Safari, so you can see those progressing. So again, depending on your internet connection, it may take a while for that Windows ISO to complete its download. But here you can see, I have all three downloads completed and I'm ready to go to the next step. And that step involves going to the Applications folder, opening up Utilities and then opening up Boot Camp Assistant, so just double-click there. All right, we're not actually going to use the Boot Camp Assistant like you normally would but we are gonna use this to download the necessary Windows drivers. So go up to Action in the menu bar and select Download Windows Support Software, and then choose the location I'm gonna choose the Downloads folder and that's what I recommend you do as well, and then just click Save.

 And this will take a little bit of time to complete this download. You're gonna notice throughout this video, I speed things up quite a bit just so we can get through it quickly. Keep in mind the process will take a little bit more time for you. All right, so you wannaput in your password and then click Unlock andthat will actually save the Windows Support folder to Downloads. So just go ahead and click Quit. And then we'll click here, you can see the Downloads folder. Let's go back to it and there you go, so you have the three files that we initially downloadedin the Windows Support folder which contains all thenecessary Windows drivers that we're gonna use a little bit later. All right, so the next stepis to plug in your SSD. And I'm gonna do thatright now and there we go. So now it's just a matterof opening up the Finder, navigating to your SSD. You wanna make sure there'snothing on this drive that you wanna keep so check it out because this process willdelete the entire contents of the drive and thankfully, I don't have anythingI actually wanna keep.

 So the next thing you wanna do once you verify that is to go to your Applications folder and we're gonna go back to the Utilities folder so that we can run the Disk Utility. So Applications, Utilities,and then open up Disk Utility. And this is sort of an unnecessary step because you can always do the formatting within Windows but I just like to have it nice and clean and easily recognizable when you connect it to Windows. So go up to View, select show all devices, and there is my Samsung Portable SSD T5. So you wanna select that and then you wanna click the Erase button at the top, and this will allow us to format our drive. And so that it's instantly recognizable when I connect it to Windows, I'm gonna change the format to MS-DOS FAT. So just click where it says Format and select MS-DOS FAT. Keep your scheme as GUID Partition Map and then change your name to something recognizable. I'm just gonna call itBOOTCAMP and then click Erase.

 All right, so it's erasing. And there we go, you might seea little time machine pop-up, just select Don't Use, click Done, and now we can close out of Disk Utility, we're done there. So now the fun part starts. We're gonna close out of Disk Utility and we're going to launch the VMware Fusion installer. So you wanna mount the VMware Fusion DMG, just double-click, and then double-click on the installer right here, and give it a second to load up. And the cool thing is that VMware Fusion gives you a nice 30-day free trial. Although, I think it is worth purchasing because it's just so handy to use, I use it all the time. So it's gonna be verifying here and then you wanna click where it says Open, put in your password, and then click OK. It's gonna initialize and then you're gonna seethe pop up for VMware Fusion, the getting started setup guide. So there we go. So it's gonna ask you toselect an installation method: install from disc or image, so we're gonna open up our Finder window for our Downloads folder again. Find your Win10 ISO file. You wanna drag that right here on top and then click Continue to proceed. So we're creating a new virtual machine here. So you wanna choose your Windows version, I'm gonna choose Windows 10 Home, click Continue and then click Continue Without Key. 

You can always enter a product key later if you wish to do so. Choose More isolated for the integration and then click Continue. Now here's where you can go in and customize the settings of your virtual machine. Primarily, the amount of processing power and the amount of memory. I recommend doing this if you have resources on your computer for it. So click Customize Settings and click Save, and that'll bring up your settings where you can go in and customize the processor and memory and all sorts of other things but we're gonna stick tothe processor and memory. So click that and then select your processor cores if you have a quad core or a octa-core CPU. In this case I have an eight-core CPU, so I'm gonna choose 4 processor cores and I'm gonna give it eight gigabytes of RAM because I have plenty of RAM to spare. Feel free to leave yours at default settings. 

If you have a modern Mac, chances are it's gonna work just fine with default settings but of course, you can bump that up a little bit to get some better performance for your virtual machine. It's gonna be up to you but you can always go default. Now click the play button and that will commence the Windows 10 virtual machine installation. So this is not installing on your external drive just yet, we're actually setting up a virtual machine that will allow us to install Windows on that external drive. So I've sped that up a lot as you can see there. This will take you a while but I've sped it up quite a bit. On this little pop-up here,just choose Yes for network so that allows us to sharere sources between your Mac and the virtual machine. All right, so open up your Downloads folder again and we're just going to drag the Win To USB executable and we're also gonna drag the Windows Support folder over to our desktop, just like that.

 It'll take a second to copy that but I've sped that up as well. So now it's time to connect our external SSD to our virtual machine installation. So you wanna go up to Virtual Machine, select USB and Bluetooth and then find your drive here, in this case Boot Camp, select that drive. You can hear it connect, there we go. So it recognizes it because it's FAT formatted so it pops right up there for you. Now go back to Virtual Machine, choose CD/DVD and then Choose Disc or Image, and then choose your Win10 ISO file, click Open, and then go back up to Virtual Machine, select CD/DVD and Connect CD/DVD, and it should pop up as well. All right, so the foundation is established, now we're ready to get this thing cracking. So next thing we wanna do is double-click on the Win To USB executable. Go ahead and install that, so just select Yes, English, OK. I accept the agreement, Next, Next, Next, Next, Install. Finish, so when Microsoft Edge pops up, you can just close that out. It actually does that a couple of times. So now we wanna launch Win To USB, the one with a little arrow,the shortcut, select Yes. And again, Microsoft Edge opens up, just close that out.

 Click OK, click the CD/DVD drive and in the drop down box,select your Windows disk, and then choose Windows 10 Home, click Next, and then select your destination, so click that drop down box,Samsung Portable SSD T5, Yes, and then choose GPT for UEFI, and then click Yes. Give it a second. All right, so on this next screen, you don't have to change anything here, it's just showing you you have an EFI partition and then your your main partition here, you can see how those are both accommodated, so now we can just click Next without changing anything. And here's the part of the tutorial that takes the longest,by far the longest. This is gonna take easily 15 minutes, maybe even more because this is the process that installs Windows on that external drive, so you're gonna have to be patient here. I've sped this up a whole lot but again, just be patient here, it will load eventually and it will complete eventually in most cases unless you run into some sort of issue with the configuration. But if you follow these steps closely, chances are you'll be okay. All right, so once we're complete, just click Exit, and then select Yes.

 Now we wanna open up Windows Explorer and now the Samsung SSD, which was formerly entitled Boot Camp, should be renamed Win To USB. So open the drive and then drag the Windows Support folder to the root of the drive. And that'll take jus ta second to copy over. So now we can shut down our virtual machine because we're done here. We're done with VMware Fusion.We have our drive set up. It now is just a matter of getting everything configured on the other side, on the Windows side. So this is exciting, so what we're gonna do now we are gonna restart our computer and then boot into recovery mode. And this is going to allow us to change some startup options to allow our external drive to boot. So after you initiate the restart, you wanna hold the Command and R keys on your keyboard as you boot up and this will allow us to access the Startup Security Utility. And we're gonna configure that utility to allow booting from an external drive which is off by default. So you're gonna wanna give it a second here. And now you'll see where it says Mac OS Recovery. You wanna click your username here, click Next, enter your Mac password, and then click Continue.

 Okay, so in the menu bar, click Utilities, and then choose Startup Security Utility, and this will allow us to configure the startup options so that we can boot from that external drive. Now you're gonna have to put in your Mac password again so go ahead and do that. So Apple has really locked down the Mac as of late. Click OK and then you have Secure Boot and then you have Allow Boot Media. So for Secure Boot, you wanna select No Security, and under Allow Boot Media, you wanna choose Allow booting from an external drive. All right, so once you select those two options you are good to go. Now what we're gonna do is just click the little close button. Click close here on Mac OS Utilities and that's gonna prompt us to select our startup disk. So let's go ahead and do that now. 

Now click choose Startup Disk and guess what we're gonna choose? We're gonna choose our Win To USB Drive, the one we just created here, this external drive. So let's go ahead and do that right now. So you see the option there? So we're going to choose the Win To USB Windows Drive and then we're gonna clickwhere it says Restart, so select that and then select Restart, and then click Restart again to confirm your restart, and we're off to the races, folks. Now we are booting from our external drive for the very first time in this process. And once we see that Windowslogo we know we're in business. Here we go. Thumbs up if you appreciate that. Give me a thumbs up, folks. Let everybody know this video's legit and it's easy to follow. Be sure to subscribe for more video tutorials like this. Now here's where things geta little bit interesting because you're gonna notice your keyboard or your track pad built in to your MacBook just doesn't work because the drivers aren't installed. So I'm pressing buttons,nothing's happening, moving the track  pad, nothing's happening. 

So that's why I said at the outset you're gonna need somesort of USB pointing device or USB keyboard. So that's where the Magic Track pad comes into play. I'm just gonna use this'cause I had it laying around. You don't have to go out and buy a Magic Trackpad to follow this tutorial. You can use any cheap USB mousethat has USB-C connectivity. You can use a cheap key boardand just interface that way as long as it's hardwired,you're gonna be good. You only need to use this during this initial part before those drivers are installed. Once the drivers are installed, you're not gonna need it again. Okay, so now we're in business, folks. I have United States selecte dand I'm gonna click Yes, that's my region and we're just gonna roll through this so just click Yes, skip. I don't have a network because we don't have the drivers yet. Continue with limited setup, and then you wanna accept the license agreement. And here is where it gets a little tricky. Now we have to click this little guy right here to open up our own screen keyboard 'cause we're not using a keyboard, just a pointing device. I'm just gonna put my name in here. So that's one workaround for that. Click Next, I'm not gonna use a password, click Next again. I'm gonna turn all this stuff off, we don't need that. Click Accept. Click No. Not now. And there we go. So we got all the setup complete. Again, I've sped this up a lot so yours may take a little bit longer. So here we are right hereon the Windows desktop. We're running Windows from an external drive on our MacBook Pro.

 So now we gotta get these drivers installed so we can get our keyboard and our track pad working. So open up Windows Explorer. So that's your C Drive. Win to USB Drive here, open that up. And then you wanna open up your Windows Support folder as well, so let's double-click. Windows Support right there at the bottom so we'll just select that. And that's where you'll find all your necessary drivers for your Mac, so open that up and then you should see a Boot Camp folder and then double-click where it says Setup, and that's gonna run the Boot Camp setup, click Yes. You can close out of Windows Explorer, and then just click Next, Accept, Install, and the installation process will commence. And again, just like I like to do, I like to speed things up so that's what I've done here. You can see it just flying through there so now we're gonna restart as it suggests but you can see my track pad's now working, indicating that the driver installation was successful.

 So we're gonna restart here. Coming back up. All right, so now we wanna go ahead and connect to our network,my wireless network because now the wireless drivers are installed as well. So that's what I'm gonna do, just go ahead and put my password in and that's gonna allow us to use Windows Update, that's going to allow us to do everything else on the internet that wewould normally do as well. So now you wanna go to your Start menu and then you should see right at the top Apple software Update,you wanna click that and that will installany additional drivers and software updates that are necessary. So let's go ahead and search the web and you can see it foundthat latest Boot Camp update. Just click Install, and then commence with the installation. It's gonna ask you toreboot, go ahead and do that. And we are almost back up here. So now you wanna right-clickon the start menu and select Device Manager. Click the disclosure triangle next to Sound, video and game controllers, right-click on Apple audio device, select Update Driver, select Browse my computer for drivers, and then navigate over to the WinPE folder under Win To USB, Windows Support, and then select the WinPE driver folder and then click OK. Now the reason we're updating the Apple audio device is because a lot of times the sound out of the speaker's doesn't work but it will work after installing that driver. 

So you just go ahead and click Close, and then you see two other devices with exclamation points next to them, you wanna go ahead and do the same thing. So right-click on tha tone, Base System Device. Click Next after you browse to the WinPE folder, it installs, oh, that's the Thunderbolt controller and then we'll do one more. Mass storage controller,there we go, Update. Location's already there, click Next, and that is the Apple solid state drive device. So got everything installed. Looks like we're good to go, folks as far as drivers are concerned.

 All right, so the next thing we wanna do is run Windows Update, and this is another slow process. Go to the Start menu, go to Settings, click where it says Update and Security, and then click Check for updates. And again, I will speed thisportion up a lot as well because this takes forever. But it's good to go ahead andget these updates installed. Don't expect yours to go this fast. I've sped this thingup multiple times over. And it's rebooting. So there we go, we're booting back from our Samsung external SSD. It's a lovely thing. 

What if you have a Mac withjust not a lot of storage? Now you don't have to worry about it, just get an external SSD,you can install Windows. I have installed Rocket League via Steam. I have my Xbox controller,just gonna load up Bluetooth and get that thing connected and then we'll play some games. This is actually a prettyhigh-end 16-inch MacBook Pro so it's gonna be ableto play games decently. So just add a Bluetooth device, Xbox Wireless Controller, and there we go. So, like I was sayingthis has the 5500M GPU, it has eight terabytes of SSD storage, so I didn't technically need an external SSD but I wanted to show you guys how this process works. Eight-core CPU, of course. And you can see me running Rocket League just like that. 60 frames per second pretty much locked in there and it dips every now andthen but it plays really well. I mean, it's super playable. Obviously, it's Rocket League, right? But even more high-end games, I think, would play pretty decently on this MacBook Pro.

 But the obvious thing here is that you're playing this from an external drive. So if you have a Mac that just doesn't have a lot of storage which is the case for a lot of Macs especially when you have these very heavy games that take up a lot of storage space, having Windows on an external drive can be handy. And it even works with the Pro Display XDR. I have that thing hooked up. It's a 6K display. Obviously, not running it native 6K. In this case, if I do it, it definitely doesn't perform as well but just the fact that you can do this and it's all in external drive. You could take it with you, you could shut it down, unplug your drive, and go back to Windows if you want to.

 So anytime you wanna boot up, you just restart, hold the Option key and then select EFI Boot, and that will boot you into Windows from your external drive just like that. So hopefully this was able to help you out. Let me know what you guys think down below in the comments. This is Jeff with 9to5Mac. Special thanks to Logitech, creator of the MX Master 3 for Mac for sponsoring 9to5Mac on YouTube. They also have the MX Keys for Mac. This keyboard has concave key caps and lots of key travel for a comfortable typing experience. And then there's the Multi-Device K380 for Mac, a perfect travel key boardfor your Mac and iOS devices. Click the link in a description for more details. And special thanks to Logitech for sponsoring 9 to 5 Mac on YouTube.