I have done a little googling and it seems doing this under W7 is out unless I want to arse about... which I don't. I'm after the simplest way possible to be able to install Windows onto a USB drive so I can stick it into any PC/Mac and boot off it and work.
I know W8 has specific features for this but my research says this is only officially on the Enterprise version. Solutions I've found seem to involve installing W8 onto your main PC first or other shenanigans, which I don't really fancy.
So... what would people advise? The key point is it must work on my Mac... this is an alternative to installing Windows directly on the Mac using Parallels/BootCamp, which is plan B if this is too icky.
I've seen some suggestion of creating a Windows VM and then just copying it onto the USB drive... or creating it there in the first place even. I can install VirtualBox on my Mac if needed but would rather avoid parallels... otherwise I might as well just install on the Mac in the first place which I'd rather avoid as it doesn't have a very big disk.
I know W8 has specific features for this but my research says this is only officially on the Enterprise version. Solutions I've found seem to involve installing W8 onto your main PC first or other shenanigans, which I don't really fancy.
So... what would people advise? The key point is it must work on my Mac... this is an alternative to installing Windows directly on the Mac using Parallels/BootCamp, which is plan B if this is too icky.
I've seen some suggestion of creating a Windows VM and then just copying it onto the USB drive... or creating it there in the first place even. I can install VirtualBox on my Mac if needed but would rather avoid parallels... otherwise I might as well just install on the Mac in the first place which I'd rather avoid as it doesn't have a very big disk.
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