In article , PeterN
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One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why
people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I
think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first
time.

macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive,
whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system
on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any
changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the
internet to a blank hard drive.

there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed
(and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a
separate emergency boot disk.


Same with windows.
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I don't think you are right about that, Peter, but I'm no computer expert.

Perhaps someone else reading here will make further comment.

he isn't.

There is a system partition used for recovery, but I don't know how
it's used. You sure can't boot from it.

This article covers that very subject. Is it easier with a Mac?

*much* easier.

you keep ignoring that it's trivial to boot from any device on a mac
and always has been.

I don't
know, but I will not participate in a tool war.

it's not a war. it's a simple description of how things work.

the only one trying to cause a war is *you*.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-boot-loader-problems/