After making your selection, click Continue. 5) Boot Camp Assistant will download and install the needed Windows support software on the selected device. 6) Once the install is nearly complete, you’ll be asked to provide your administrator password so the Boot Camp Assistant can change the file permissions on the USB flash drive. Provide your administrator password, and click Continue. On your Mac, log in as an administrator, quit all open apps, then log out any other users. Choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Software Update, then install all available updates. If your Mac restarts after installing an update, open Software Update again to. Learn how to use Boot Camp on an external drive and what you need for an external Windows drive, such as disk utility, terminal, boot camp assistant. Your source for expert tips, special deals, commentary, reviews, and the latest tech news.
Opened new hard drive.
Partitioned it into OSX 250Gb, My MacFiles 250Gb, Free Space 500Gb
SuperDupered a 'Clean Mavericks 10.9.5' onto OSX 250Gb.
Upgrade Your Mac's Internal Hard Drive Including Boot Camps
Opened BootCamp to install, ERROR MESSAGE 'The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.'
***?? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203913 (among others)
I repartitioned to ONE partition OSX 1000Gb (and EFI partition) GUID Partition HFS+ (journaled)
My Disk Utility has been altered to Show ALL partitions, including normally hidden ones.
Seagate Laptop SSHD 1Tb Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive STBD1000400
Is not a normal hard drive, my suspicion is that this drive is incompatible with BootCamp on Mavericks.
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Upgrade Your Mac's Internal Hard Drive Including Boot Camp 2017
1) buy a drive adaptor or enclosure (an adaptor is a device that you just plug the drive into and is meant more for techies than home users but it would be slightly more convenient for this task) and put the new drive in it.
2) partition and format the drive. You aren't setting up BootCamp so don't create a BootCamp partition.
3) download SuperDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner and clone your computer's drive to the new drive.
4) download WinClone and copy your BootCamp partition to the new drive - this will create a file on the Mac drive which you'll use later.
5) Install the new drive into the computer and boot up.
6) run BootCamp to partition the new drive - you can create a larger partition than you originally had just don't make it smaller.
7) run WinClone to restore your Windows installation.
8) Boot up into Windows - don't panic. The first startup will want to repair the drive - that's okay. It will reboot the computer when the repair is finished. The second time you restart BootCamp all should be well.
You could use TimeMachine to populate the new drive but by spending a bit more money for an enclosure you'll save lots of time and you'll have another external drive. A computer user NEVER has enough hard drive space.