How to let Apple run Windows on external SSD

                                                                                                                                                                                         

I believe that most of my friends may know that Apple

in addition to the built-in Mac OS X system, it also does not forget to adapt and compatible with Windows system, in order to meet those who can not do without Microsoft operating system. User. The most common practice is to use Apple's Boot Camp assistant to divide the built-in hard drive into two areas, and later install the Microsoft operating system into the specified partition to achieve the coexistence of Mac OS X and Windows.

However, this approach may have an annoyance for many friends. Because the current Apple
notebooks all use the built-in SSD flash memory design, and because of the cost-effective reason, most users will choose to buy 128GB or 256GB storage space version, the originally scarce storage space will be divided into parts Windows usage is really wasteful. So is there a way to install Windows on an external storage device?

Successfully implemented Win8.1 on an external SSD on Apple RMBP.

The answer is of course yes, after the author Constantly trying, I finally found a stable way to complete all the steps on the Apple computer. And the storage medium of the method can also be replaced with a large-capacity USB 3.0 interface U disk device, imagine that a small USB flash drive with a 64 GB USB 3.0 can be plugged in to run various games on the Apple computer. Can the otaku men be able to show up in front of your goddess?

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Implementing Apple on the external storage device to run Windows The biggest difficulty of the system is that Apple's Boot Camp assistant can only recognize the internal hard disk, which means that Apple officially only allows users to install the Windows operating system on the internal hard disk, and the external USB hard disk is unrecognizable. Although the Boot Camp assistant will recognize the Thunderbolt lightning storage device as a built-in hard disk, unfortunately all current lightning hard disk boxes are more than a thousand dollars, which is not something that most of us can afford. What we want is to install the system on a cheap USB3. .0 storage device.

BootCamp Assistant can only recognize the internal hard disk

Since Apple's official Boot Camp assistant has restrictions, then you need to find another way to use Microsoft's official Windows To Go. It is a new feature built into Windows 8 that allows users to create a portable Windows system on a removable disk. The full version of Windows before Windows 8 does not support booting from a USB device. Only special versions such as Windows PE and embedded Windows can be started. At present, Win8 has been booted directly from USB for the first time, which can meet the increasing demand for mobile office and USB3.0.

Although the solution has been successfully found, the Windows To Go authoring tool is only built into the enterprise version of Win8 system, and can only install the enterprise version of windows
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Win8 system score in Apple RMBP external SSD

The above picture is to use Windows To GO to install Win8 system on SSD in external USB3.0 hard disk box on Apple computer. The screenshot of the operation, this test uses 256GB Pu Kete M5S SSD, the system version is win8 Enterprise Edition (install Win8.1 Enterprise Edition can also be successful), the system only needs to hold down the Option button each time you boot Select an external Windows partition to start.

In the Win8 system score, you can see that the processor and memory have reached a high score of 7.8, and the chicken blood version of the RM650M on the Apple RMBP can reach a high score of 7.1, and definitely can play most games. It is. Hard disk, because most of the current SSD master control is not very good for USB3.0 support, can not play all functions, but the score of 7.1 has been quite good. At least in the past few days when I tested the game, I didn't find any impact on this short board. The startup speed was within 30 seconds, and the whole system was running quite smoothly.