So, as I continue to explore the Boot Camp thing, my searching seems to point to the fact that Windows 10 won’t install itself on an external drive for booting from that drive without a lot of workarounds and, even if you somehow make that happen, the resulting installation thereafter won’t accept future Windows updates unless the external drive is connected to the Mac via Thunderbolt 3. Am I getting that right? Please help me understand. I keep seeing some references to a TB3 drive making it much simpler, but want to make sure before I invest in even a fairly modestly priced TB3 external drive.
Bottom line: I like running Win 10 on the Mac using Boot Camp, but don’t care for having to partition any of the factory internal drive for it, so I’m hoping I have understood correctly that my path to happiness here is using the Media Creation Tool on a Windows 10 PC to make a Windows-bootable USB thumb drive, hooking up a TB3 external drive to the Mac, booting the Mac from the USB thumb drive to install Windows 10 on the TB3 drive, and we live happily ever after from there on. Yes? No?
Bottom line: I like running Win 10 on the Mac using Boot Camp, but don’t care for having to partition any of the factory internal drive for it, so I’m hoping I have understood correctly that my path to happiness here is using the Media Creation Tool on a Windows 10 PC to make a Windows-bootable USB thumb drive, hooking up a TB3 external drive to the Mac, booting the Mac from the USB thumb drive to install Windows 10 on the TB3 drive, and we live happily ever after from there on. Yes? No?
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