Boot camp outside mac

Hi,
Does anyone know if bootcamp can create a partition on an external hard drive so i don't need to sacrifice any mac space? Also i have a new macbook which has no sign of boot camp in utilities folder,what is the best route to get it? a down load or leopard installation disc?

Some DVDs didn't come with BootCamp Assistant, mostly early on Leopard Upgrade DVDs. Take a look for Pacifist on wwww.macupdate.com which can examine installer packages and let you do an extrat-install of just BC if it is there probably.
Mac OS can boot from external or keep your entire home account on 2nd drive. You really can't install and run Windows from an external USB/FW or even eSATA drive - unless you are using a workstation with PCI controller and a RAID controller, which will.
A Mac Pro supports 4 internal drives, lots of disk space. You could pull your internal drive, put it in an external case for backups etc and install a larger hard drive. But Windows should be able to live with 20-40GB (XP vs Vista) and still leave 'enough' for OS X. And use an external drive for your media libraries if needed.

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Is Apple boot camp on Mac OS 10.7 lion ready to support Windows 8 after it is set to release in 2012?
Thanks!

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After I installed Windows 7 Ultimate with boot camp on my 2011 Macbook Pro I installed the drivers from the disc and installed all the updates from software update in windows 7.
Whenever I restart into Mac OSX 10.6.8 it will change the date to the next day (or about 11 hours) and even if the automatic time set from the internet is selected it will still say this is the correct time
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2253940?threadID=2253940&tstart=0
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As you've learned the hard way, if you were expecting an instant answer to a problem or technical question, you won't often find it here unless many other people are encountering the issue at the same moment on the same day. If no-one currently online when you post your message has encountered your specific issue or problem and been able to remedy it, you're unlikely to get an immediate response.
In the less-active areas of these forums, questions often linger 24 hours or more before receiving a response, and many questions go unanswered far longer. That is because these are free user-to-user forums, not a paid tech support help line.
And yet, some wonderful people spend an extraordinary amount of time here being helpful: Take a look at the list of Top Participants in any Community. It is based upon reputation points. It takes decades of determined effort to achieve a 'Level 10' status!
I've been a casual user here for almost four years, and I'm barely a 'Level 3' which begins at 500 reputation points, equating to as few as 50 'correct' or as many as 100 'helpful' answers, so take any advice I've posted within these forums at your own risk.
Not being one to assume that any totally frustrated user actually searches far and wide within or outside these forums for answers, or even understands how to use the forum search feature before getting frustrated, I'll offer some links that could still be helpful...
The Boot Camp time sync issue goes back to at least 2007-2008, which predates both OS X 10.6 and Windows 7. A popular search engine will provide quite a number of off-forum links that may or may not be helpful.
This old link within Apple Support Communities provides a couple of off-site Microsoft links to instructions for setting the system clock and synchronizing with an internet time server. It does not specifically address OS X 10.6 and Windows 7, but OS X 10.5, Windows XP and Windows Vista: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1285
Note that you must have an active internet connection for time-sync to work properly.
Have you set up your network connection(s) on the Windows 7 side?
Which time zone have you selected on the Windows side?
Which internet time server(s) are you using on OS X and in Windows?
This off-site post suggests using regedit in Windows to disable the Apple Time Service in Windows.
http://highball.se/2011/02/fix-bootcamp-system-time-issues/
and it references the original 2007 post here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=314786
May that future responses to your questions within the Apple Support Communities be, uh, somewhat more timely.

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NO.... he has a workstation, and not MBP, nor are "drivers already loaded."
How I would proceed -
Install Windows on its own drive.
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Hello Mickaelpopo,
Thank you for the question. It sounds like you are trying to install Windows 8.1 using Boot Camp 5 on your MacBook Pro. Currently, Windows 8.1 is not a supported version of Windows for Boot Camp:
Which versions of Windows work with Boot Camp 5?
You can use:
Microsoft Windows 8.0 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 8.0 Pro (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
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Windows 8.1 is not supported with Boot Camp 5.
You can find more information here:
Boot Camp 5: Frequently asked questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5639
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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I am new to using Macs -- just purchased a new iMac with OS X Lion pre-installed. I would like to use boot camp to dual boot to windows. Can someone point me to where I can get instructions for how to do this with the new Lion OS? Also, I purchased my iMac with the 256SSD + 2TB HDD. I partitioned my 2TB HDD so that half is for Mac and half is for Windows. But I'm not sure if I should partition my SSD drive also. My understanding is that the OS will run a lot faster on the SSD. Should I partition my SSD in half as well to serve as the boot drive for both Mac and Windows?

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Boot Camp compatible Macs

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First off, if you have 10.4.11 or earlier on your Mac, the beta that was available September 2007 and earlier is no longer available.
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Intel iMacs (link differentiates Intel iMacs from the rest)
Mac Minis with 4 USB ports in back (not 2 USB ports found on older PowerPC Mac Minis).
Mac Pros a tower with 2 optical drive bays and cheesegrater front (not to be confused with the PowerMac G5 tower with only a single optical drive bay in front).
MacBook and MacBook Pros which are clearly labelled their names beneath the screen.
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Hi there,
I am trying to set up boot camp on my MacBook and am completely stuck (likely due to stupidity but bear with me).
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Hello,
I hope I'm in the right place for this question. If not maybe someone could direct me where to go. When I installed Boot Camp 1.1 on the Mac Pro, I was prompted for either a quick format in NTFS or long format for NTFS. I wasn't prompted for FAT as indicated by the instructions. Since there wasn't FAT to format the drive I used NTFS File system.
I was able to load Windows XP Pro, Install MS Word, Word Perfect and GroupWise. Now according to the Boot Camp instructions it indicated that when formating in NTFS that you won't be able to save files. Does that mean I won't be able to save word files in Windows?
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NTFS is a newer, more efficient, disk format that Microsoft is now pushing people to use. Basically, when it comes to Mac users though the choice really comes down to this…
Do you want to be able to write to your Windows partition from Mac OS X?
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HT3986 why can't my boot camp in mac system detect the win7 system i've installed

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when i click my boot camp assistance in mac system, it shows me only to continue to install windows. is it supposed to be like this?

Unclear what you did and askng your system to do.
Can you boot Windows natively now?
If you want to dual boot Windows and Mac, you use Boot Camp.
If you want to do all that, AND you also want to use your Windows as a guest OS under Mac using parallels you setup parallels after Windows was installed and functioning and fully updated first.
And Parallels has their How To, FAQ and support forum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VMware_Fusion_and_Parallels_Desktop
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop?icid=1480

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