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My windows laptop croaked, but though I’m a Mac studio, I still like to occasionally use Word, Excel & PPT. I also have an old late 2009 iMac that I’ve been using mainly for email. Is it possible that, instead of partitioning the internal HD to make room for windows, I can just install the 2.5 drive from my windows laptop, and somehow get bootcamp to designate that as the windows boot? I realize that windows does some arcane stuff to lock their OS to the original motherboard… but just wondering if my scenario is possible. I mean, the laptop’s dead… I already have a drive with windows, office, etc installed! Crossing my fingers I can use it, and not have to spend more $$… Thanks for your time steve
BootCamp needs to be installed on the boot drive. So you would need to install your OS-X/MacOS on the SSD and then set it as your boot drive. Then you can setup BootCamp on it. There is no partitioning going on here with BootCamp! BootCamp creates a special folder to install your Windows stuff. You can setup a second drive or create a second partition if needed.
