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After installation, safely unplug the USB drive from the Windows computer, then connect the USB drive to the Mac computer you want to boot. After clicking 'Next', WinToUSB begins installing Windows.

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If this directory contains too many useless files, the process of injecting drivers will become very slow.

The directory of the additional drivers you specify should only contain drivers that need to be injected into Windows.

Select the system partition and boot partition from the partition list, the selected partitions will be marked as red, specify the directory of the additional drivers as the save path of Boot Camp Support Software, then click 'Next'. Please note that the 'Keep the existing partition scheme' option is valid only for an external disk.

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If you choose 'Keep the existing partition scheme', you need to manually prepare the partitions on the USB drive before this step, and here is the user guide on how to manually prepare partitions for Windows To Go.

Mac computer is a UEFI based computer, so you have to select the 'GPT for UEFI' or 'MBR for BIOS and UEFI' option as the partition scheme. A pop-up will appear asking you if you want to format it to continue, select the partition scheme you want to use and click 'Yes' to format it.

If the drive is not correctly recognized by WinToUSB, please click the button for the program to recognize the drive. Select the destination drive in the drop-down list. Pleae select the edition of Windows you want to install, then click 'Next'. WinToUSB scans for and lists available operating systems. Click the button, then click the button and select the Windows installation ISO file from the open dialog box. Copy the Boot Camp Support Software downloaded in the previous step to the computer with an installed copy of WinToUSB, and connect the destination external hard drive or USB flash drive to this computer, then run WinToUSB. Download Mac Boot Camp Support Software for Windows To Go, please refer to: How to download Boot Camp Windows Support Software for Windows To Go? Tutorial to create and run Windows To Go on a Mac computer with WinToUSB. Mac computers use 64-bit Intel CPUs, so make sure you use 64-bit Windows to create Windows To Go. For booting Windows on an (U)EFI-based computer, the Windows version must match the PC architecture, that means a 64-bit (U)EFI-based computer can only boot 64-bit versions of Windows and a 32-bit (U)EFI-based computer can only boot 32-bit versions of Windows. So in order to boot a Mac computer, we have to make sure that the Windows To Go USB drive that we created supports EFI booting.Ģ. Now All of Apple's computers use Intel CPUs, and Apple selected the Intel-designed Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) as its BIOS firmware to replace the Open firmware used on the PowerPC architecture. So we need to understand what causes the WinToUSB USB drive to fail to boot and then we can effectively avoid it.ġ. Yes, the Windows To Go USB drive created by WinToUSB can be started from a Mac computer, but not all Windows To Go USB drive created by WinToUSB can be started from a Mac computer. How do I make it? Could let me know step by step for using your tools.

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I noticed that WinToUSB can install Windows to a USB drive, can the Windows USB drive created by WinToUSB be started from a Mac computer?

Now I'm trying to get rid of my Bootcamp installation, because of low space on main SSD drive.

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I hav a late 2016 MacBook Pro with MacOS and Windows 10 Pro dual systems installed on it, so far so good, but I only use Windows 10 Pro to play some games that can't be run on MacOS.

This tutorial will show you how to create a Windows To Go USB drive that supports Mac computers, then you can run Windows to go on a Mac computer to complete the work that must be done under Windows.