Bootcamp Mac Starts Up

This means that when the Mac starts up or reboots, you can choose between booting into Mac OS or booting into Windows on the same computer.

If you have a smaller hard drive on the Mac, or your hard drive is frequently running out of space, this is probably not going to be an option for you.

Bootcamp Windows 10 Install Drive

Note you can install Windows with Boot Camp on earlier Macs too, but to do so you will need to first make a Windows 10 install drive from MacOS, whereas 2015 and newer models running Mac OS X 10.11 or later do not require the Windows boot drive.

Once you are ready, heres how to install Windows on Mac with Boot Camp.

Installing Boot Camp drivers is essential for using a Touch Bar and Force Touch with Windows 10 on a Mac, amongst other actions and features.

You can also use Disk Utility separately, or a command line tool to delete the partition, but its recommended to follow the official Boot Camp methods.

Bootcamp is actually leading me down the external device road.

The only devices that show up in the window are some backup drives I have connected by USB and any USB stick I connect.

Yes, I have been through all methods: Rufus, WinUSB, Winclone, fixed registry to allow windows load USB driver, and successfully boot from External SSD.

Any tips you can help Many readers would appreciate an article about this topic.

Then theres the post-installation, extras that must be performed after Windows 10 is running.

Hint: Find the Boot Camp Control Panel and correct the default settings.

In short, the full process is nothing short of a nightmare with Apple to blame for each of the problems along the way.

I dont have the patience or room to go through the entire actual process here.

But there are some helpful, more realistic descriptions of what it takes to get everything to work elsewhere on the net.

I believe Steve Jobs tried to break bootcamp on purpose each time a new version of OSX was released.

In fact you can just install Windows only on Apple hardware and it runs great.

I am only using Windows for games, which I keep on an external drive, and for about 5GB of combined apps and documents.

If I run into an issue (havent so far), its easy enough to wipe Windows and reinstall it with a larger partition.

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