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Can you move your windows partition on your mac to an external hard drive?
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∙ 13y ago
You can certainly move Windows to an external hard drive but Windows will not boot directly from an external drive. If you are running Windows in Parallels (See links below) you can have Parallels installed on the Mac's drive and then have your Windows virtual machine on the external drive.
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FDISK
