![]() Bootcamp is not an option since it merely prepares your hard drive - the installation itself is done by Windows which calmly refuses to install on any external drive. I already had a version of Windows 8.1 installed in VMware Fusion. This drive already had a HFS+-formatted partition I had shrunk by 120GiB to make space for Windows 8.1. I wanted to install Windows 8.1 on an external USB 3.0 drive connected to a MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite. ![]() If the words "command line", "BIOS" or "partition" do not mean anything to you or scare you, please do not proceed. Have a backup of your data ready before you proceed. The following steps might result in data corruption or loss and your coffee machine might stop working. Not wanting to "pollute" my internal SSD with Windows, I started investigating what the options are. Only if you have a Microsoft-certified external drive. With Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced a feature called Windows-to-go which enables the installation of Windows on external drives. ![]()
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