I am using MBP 2015 running Mojave I need Win 10 for quite limited operations like to use browser for establish connection to remote server or etc. It works only on Win hence I need Win 10. There are a few options to have second OS on Mac but I would prefer to use USB drive. I used to run Linux from USB on my former Windows laptop with no issue hence I thought I could do similar from MBP. Any advice? Thanks
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You can install Windows on USB drive. Let's look here.– LoginCommented Sep 17, 2020 at 10:31
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You cannot legally run Windows 10 from an external drive, and the OS is deliberately designed so that cannot happen. Linux has no such problems. You could try installing a properly licensed copy of Windows 10 as a virtual machine using Virtualbox or VMWare.– Michael HarveyCommented Sep 17, 2020 at 10:35
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@Login, that link leads back to this thread.– Michael HarveyCommented Sep 17, 2020 at 10:36
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superuser.com/questions/1526015/…– harrymcCommented Sep 17, 2020 at 10:55
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1@MichaelHarvey Where are you getting your info from, as it's factually inaccurate. Windows can be installed to a USB drive, it's simply not recommended since Windows isn't intended to be run from a USB drive. Unlike BSD/Linux, which often loads itself into RAM when booting from a USB drive, Windows will not, so the user takes the risk bumping the drive could crash the OS with little ability to recover any open projects. USB drives also usually have lower quality flash, resulting in much quicker churn if used regularly to boot Windows due to the constant writes by the OS.– JW0914Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 3:07
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Thanks for your suggestions Finally I decided to go with boot camp and installed it. The only concern left is that my hard drive is 120 Gb and ~60 Gb were available. During boot camp install process it allocated 37 Gb for Windows and did not give me the option to resize. Hence I have Windows 10 running on 37 Gb partition with ~13 Gb available. For now it runs fine. My question: could I leave it 'as is'? Thanks