#BOOTCAMP WINDOWS TO MAC OS INSTALL#
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Continue to hold the Options/Alt key until the mac has fully booted. Press and hold the Options key (apple) or Alt key (windows) while simultaneously powering on the mac by pressing on the power button. Shutdown the mac by holding the power button for ~10 seconds. Solution to anyone else having the same problem of a bootloop in the Windows partition of a mac bootcamp:Р”В¬onnect an external wired keyboard (can be apple or other brand - I used an old acer KU-0355) to a working USB port (I tested power to the port using a USB led lamp). More information about causes can be found here: This caveat is self-imposed by my decision to use an NVIDIA GPU and would probably go away if I went to, shudder, Team Red.So it appears that the Windows partition / system files required for boot has most likely been corrupted - Apparently it can happen for no obvious reason and without any warning upon reboot. This setup is relatively painless to achieve and only comes with the caveat of ensuring the eGPU is off when booting into macOS.

#BOOTCAMP WINDOWS TO MAC OS FOR WINDOWS 10#

1TB External USB3 Drive for Windows 10 game storage.

2TB External Thunderbolt 3 Drive for macOS.

512GB Mac Mini Internal Drive for Bootcamp/Windows 10.

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I believe (hypothesis) this happens because of the hot swapping nature of the eGPU and PCI buses involved While using an external boot device the hot swap may cause a signal to be sent to reset some bus connections thus bringing the Windows boot volume offline just long enough to cause an issue (think of hot-swapping your boot disk, it just won't work).

By this I mean time and resource usage still appears to occur within Windows (observed via time passing on the clock and resource usage via Task Manager) but all IO becomes unresponsive (no user input via keyboard/mouse), even after unplugging/replugging USB devices. I'm not entirely sure why, but doing this while booted on an external drive, both USB3 and TB3 (yes I tried both) causes the system to become unresponsive.

#BOOTCAMP WINDOWS TO MAC OS SOFTWARE#

While in Windows, to setup the eGPU for the first time (ensuring all Windows Updates and Apple Updates from the Windows Bootcamp Software are current), turn on the eGPU while in Windows Because I'm using a GPU from NVIDIA, I need to keep the eGPU off during initial system boots (more on this later) Once it comes time to initialize the eGPU, things behave unexpectedly. Note, the image created can be saved and used as base image for any future Bootcamp installs to be done via external media. This 2nd user can safely be deleted after the final setup.

Please note the user you created in the first pass will still exist, requiring you to create a second user on the 2nd setup pass.

Doing so will allow you to setup Windows again, but this time as a permanent Windows Bootcamp disk. This volume can now be booted from as a Bootcamp volume. The image that was created can now be written to any freshly exFAT formated, GUID Partitioned external volume (USB3, TB3). Once the image is created, the Bootcamp volume can be removed, freeing up the macOS drive of that space usage. Once that is done and Windows is up and running, sysprep.exe must be run from within Windows to return its current state to an Out of box experience.Р”Р„fter running sysprep.exe and the system is shutdown, boot back into macOS and create an image of the Bootcamp volume using something like Winclone.

#BOOTCAMP WINDOWS TO MAC OS INSTALL#

The initial install and setup needs to be done via Bootcamp on the internal drive. Windows via Bootcamp on an external drive works great but requires some setup. Some of this is self-inflicted but currently there is no AMD competitor to the 2080 (even with taking Ray Tracing out of the picture) I'm convinced a lot of my headaches are due to using a non-AMD (as in not supported by Apple) GPU. FindingsР”В®ncountered some issues with Bootcamp on the external volume while using the eGPU. Ultimately I settled upon cloning my macOS installation to the external TB3 drive and using the internal 512GB for the Windows 10 drive (along with a 1TB external for my game library). However, trying to get Windows 10 to boot from an external volume while using the eGPU was a no go. Windows 10 booting from internal volume, eGPU Windows 10 booting from external volume (both USB3 and TB3), no eGPU The following worked separately with little-to-no issues: Geekbench tests were all done in Windows 10 on both platforms.

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Also, the Mac Mini outperforms the gaming PC (Intel Core i7-4770) at best and at worst it is on par with the bigger box. One less box on the desk and less cable clutter. I had the gaming PC setup but consolidated my workspace area down to the 2018 Mac Mini I already owned as well. NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super via eGPU in Windows 10, understanding it wouldn't be usable in macOS Windows 10 installed via Bootcamp on an external volume (USB3 or TB3, ideally the latter) Intel Core i7-8700B, 6-cores 32 GB DDR4 RAM.

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