Can I install a program on an external disk via Windows under Boot Camp?

Simple question.
Will i be able to install Flight Sim X onto a FAT32 Formatted USB Hard Drive and be able to run it from the drive?

Hi Ryan,
this should be possible.
Just make sure that the external HD is fully accessable when running BootCamp Windows and during installation point the destination folder in which FlightX should be installed to the external HD.
Most definitely there will still be some files that the installer of FlightX must install into the Windows System Folder, so some free space should be on the internal Windows partition.
Regards
Stefan

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