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I'm a newbie on Macs and OS X. I'm currently using "El Capitan" version 10.11.6

I have the Windows 10 Enterprise 64bits installer ISO. I have doubts about Installing Windows on SDXC Card using Boot Camp.

Is it Possible to do this and if so, is there a step-by-step or HOWTO available?

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My Hard Disk is 128GB, I really need another partitions for CentOS and Windows 10 then Is very few space for three OS.

And now I know the speed is very slow for SDXC (I was thinking in Transcend).

If I found a Speedest Hard Disk the USB speed will be a limitation. Some clue to solve this limitation Space and Speed?

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Can you do this?

With Windows? No. Technically, it's possible to boot an OS (like Linux for FreeBSD) off a SD card - you simply point your bootloader to the bootable partition of the SDXC card and away you go But...

Why would you want to do this? It would be horribly slow.
(and by slow, I mean slow as molasses in winter slow)

Microsoft doesn't like people booting from removable drives and since the SD card reader is off your USB bus, it shows up as a removable device. Linux doesn't have this limitation, however.

This doesn't, however, prevent you from putting a virtual HDD on the SD card and booting Windows in a virtualized environment like Parallels or VirtualBox.

Why you don't want to do this

Your SATA drive on your Mac transfers at 6Gb/s. A USB 3.0 drive goes 5Gb/s. Your SD card (assuming class 10) will go at most .5Gb/s (yes, only half a gigabit per second).

*Basically, you will be trying to install Windows on a disk that's 12x slower than the drive built in to your Mac. And that's at the highest speed possible that an SD card can go.

I give more detail in an answer here

By trying to boot off the SDXC card, you would bring your MBP down to a crawl; to the point it would be torturous to us. The best thing to do is to keep that SDXC card for pictures, or whatever file storage you need.

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  • You data speeds are off. SATA is 6Gb/s, meaning gigabits, NOT gigabytes. This means it can go up to around 600 megabytes/second. USB 3.0 goes 5Gb/s, meaning 5 gigabits, and a theoretical speed of 640 megabytes/second. A quick lookup shows that the top speed of a SDXC/SDHC card is up to 312 megabytes/second.
    – At0micMutex
    Commented Aug 13, 2016 at 13:14
  • @IronCraftMan don't know why I typed bytes when I really meants bits. I fixed it.... Thanks for the catch
    – Allan
    Commented Aug 13, 2016 at 15:45

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