Thunderbolt 1 driver windows 10 bootcamp7/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I have a handful of the Buffalo Ministation Thunderbolt 2 drives with the original, slow 5400 rpm hard drives replaced with various SSDs, and they work wonderfully 3. I’ve not tried MBR 1… but: you can indeed boot Windows 7 and Windows 8 (64-bit versions) in EFI mode off of a Thunderbolt-connected disk. Also, support is likely to vary between models, so chances are I'd pick up the wrong one. ![]() Obviously I could just go and buy a Thunderbolt drive and try it out but they're pretty expensive compared to otherwise equivalent and more universally compatible USB3 drives. You can prepare the disk's partition table manually, so the main question is if the Mac's firmware will boot an MBR-based OS from a Thunderbolt drive. I realise that the Boot Camp assistant might not cooperate as the drive is "external", but the assistant is just for partitioning. So is it possible to boot Windows off such a drive? And can you suggest any specific models of disks or Thunderbolt-SATA adapters that support this? I have read that you can boot OSX from at least some Thunderbolt hard disks and SSDs. But Thunderbolt drives are really just PCIe SATA controllers with one or more SATA disks attached, much like internal drives. I know the BIOS emulation of the EFI firmware in Macs does not support booting from FireWire or USB drives, and the EFI version of Windows doesn't seem to be compatible with Apple's EFI implementation, so you can't install or boot Windows from one of those. ![]()
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