I decided to just give her my Windows gaming rig, thinking I could do all of that on my Mac Pro if I installed Windows 10 on it. (I used to have a fairly high-end Windows desktop I built for things like gaming.) Well, now, my oldest daughter has gotten into games that demand that type of machine to run well, and she's no longer happy with the Mac Mini she'd been using. I'm not quite sure if I can get Windows 10 to boot properly from that enclosure, even if I get it installed onto a partition on there successfully? (Will Windows even include driver support for Thunderbolt that's sufficient to let it start up from there right after the first install?)Ĭ Pro owner, I've never really had an interest in dual booting into Windows until now. To further complicate matters, most of my drive storage on my Mac Pro is by way of an external Thunderbolt drive enclosure that has 5 SATA drives in it, presented to the Mac as one big drive since they're formatted as RAID 5 using the firmware in the enclosure itself. When it sees a partition on a drive of an 'unknown type' (meaning Mac OSX, Linux or something else like that), it just goes about deleting it to re-allocate it as usable space for the Windows install. From what I've read, it's having a lot of problems clobbering other drive partitions on any drive it's installed on. I decided to just give her my Windows gaming rig, thinking I could do all of that on my Mac Pro if I installed Windows 10 on it.Įxcept I realized my timing probably couldn't have been worse, since Microsoft just released the 'redstone' update to Windows 10 (the 'Anniversary' edition patch, as they're calling it).

As a late 2013 Mac Pro owner, I've never really had an interest in dual booting into Windows until now.

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