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Question

Running Windows 10 and ubuntu on an external hard drive

by May 11, 2017 2:16PM PDT

Hello everyone....... I have a Macbook pro and a 4TB external Hard drive. Now I want to use the hard drive in a manner where I get 3 TB for random storage purposes and 500 GB for Linux and 500 GB. Now will I have to use boot camp or vm ware/virtual box and how do I do this.....please note I have dual booted linux on a windows pc before. So does anyone know how to do this or have prior experience..... as far as I have searched I found that guys can load windows 10 OR ubuntu from an external drive..... I am not certain as to how they do it but I get that it is possible........ so I want to know whether I can use a single hard drive to load BOTH windows 10 and ubuntu and still 3TB more space for my use.... if some one knows that please do advice....thanks in advance.

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Mistake corrected.
by May 11, 2017 2:47PM PDT

Dafydd.

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I'm going with dead end on the Windows boot.
by Forum moderator May 11, 2017 3:02PM PDT

Folk have found that to be a mess, unsupported. I'd just use VMs of your choice. For Windows 10 proper, use Boot Camp and Apple's document to install.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204990 goes over that.

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I dont have space for dual booting.... :-(
by obviouslydumb May 11, 2017 3:22PM PDT

hey thanks..... but I have to use windows and mac os simultaneously and my mac has 1TB storage which is almost full 100Gigs remaining. So is there a way I can partition the hard disk into 3 parts where I can use virtual box to use one partition for windows 10 and one for ubuntu (please note I have not used virtual box before) is there any tutorial that shows me how to do it. ...... I appreciate the spontaneity .

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Why not run Ubuntu
by itsdigger May 11, 2017 3:37PM PDT
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I see Ubuntu was covered.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 11, 2017 3:39PM PDT

As to W10 and virtual box it's just a matter of you using google for that question and you are presented with a lot of examples.

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thanks man.....
by obviouslydumb May 11, 2017 4:40PM PDT

i am just not familiar with virtual box..... i will look into it as it seem to be the way forward

Post was last edited on May 11, 2017 4:43 PM PDT

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