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Video tutorial: How to install Windows 10 on a Mac external drive
In this video walkthrough, I show you step-by-step how to deploy a Windows installation using Boot Camp drivers on an external drive connected to your Mac.
With this in mind, setting up an external Windows drive on your Mac might prove to be handy. Considering that many Macs out there have relatively minuscule amounts of onboard storage, installing Boot Camp to run Windows isn’t always a feasible option. The key finder programs mentioned above support the product key recovery for Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, Microsoft Office and many other softwares.Traditional Boot Camp installations can take up a lot of storage space on your Mac. There are many other ways to recover lost Windows product keys from a dead or unbootable computer, but these two method above should be the best and the easiest ones. It could be your external USB flash drive. Browse to a location where you want to save the product keys.In the popup window, you’ll see a list of product keys which are recovered from your Windows installation.When the PCUnlocker program starts, click the Options button at the bottom left corner and then select “ Find Product Key“.Boot your target computer from PCUnlocker Live CD, which can be created by following this tutorial.PCUnlocker is the ultimate rescue & recovery bootdisk which can not only be used to reset forgotten Windows admin/user password, but also recover lost Windows product key from crashed or dead computer.
The program will now show you all the product keys that it is able to find from your broken computer which makes it very handy when needing to re-install.Click the “…” button to specify the SOFTWARE registry file of your dead or unbootable hard drive, which is present in the Windows\System32\Config folder.Choose the “From non-booting system” option from the drop-down menu, a new dialog box will appear.Launch KeyFinder Plus and then click on “Start Recovery” button.Using KeyFinder Plus program you can easily recover lost Windows and software product keys from the Windows registry file on your dead or unbootable hard drive. Simply take the hard drive out of your dead or unbootable computer, then attach it to another working computer as a slave (or secondary) drive. Option 1: Connect your Dead or Unbootable Drive to Another Working PC What to do if your computer has already crashed? In this article we’ll show you two options to help you recover Windows product key from a dead or unbootable computer.
How to recover Windows product key in the event your computer won’t boot? In one of my previous post I wrote how to recover Windows product key, but it requires that you are able to boot normally into Windows.