How to install Windows 7 on a portable hard drive

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Direct your installation to your external drive
If that doesn't work. Take out the HDD from your external and swap it with your internal. be carefull

Install W7 on that drive.

Take it back out and put it in your external and try and boot from it.

You'll have to enter BIOS settings and change the Boot order first. Get that USB HDD to the top of the list and hit F10 to save and exit.


plz rep me if this helps

you could use the instructions on this website to install windows xp How to Install Windows XP on a Portable Hard Disk? – A Tutorial | PC Land andthen upgrade to windows 7 later.

LMAO "CAN'T BE DONE"
I am typing this on a PC that I booted from a 500 GB simpletech Usb hard drive and I am currently running win 7 & on it.
There are several good step by step articles about how it's done, using VMWARE while doing the OS install, fooling the OS into thinking it's installing somewhere else.
I was sceptical but when all is done, I can run this external OS completely independent of my existing vista install.
I doubt that I could take this external HD and simply plug it into another computer, as I believe that the win 7 OS will be looking for certain things, unique to my hardware etc..
I could be wrong there.
But the blanket statement that it can't be done, I assume is just someone being funny.
P.S. I do know that many folks might not want you to know that this can be done easily, Most work for Microsoft LMAO

AAIRON said:

...There are several good step by step articles about how it's done, using VMWARE while doing the OS install, fooling the OS into thinking it's installing somewhere else...

So, post the steps on how to do it. Or, post some links. Or a video of your machine booting.

ChuckR said:

Why 'Or' ?

Post 'All' - he's a 'computer professional'... :)

WTF is that supposed to mean?

Just google the terms I provided kids, and don't be so.....
well for lack of a better term,..... 'Childish'.

Between the two of you, you only total less then two thousand posts LMAO, on an obscure forum at that, So are you proffesionals LOL.

AAIRON said:

WTF is that supposed to mean?

Just google the terms I provided kids, and don't be so.....
well for lack of a better term,..... 'Childish'.

Between the two of you, you only total less then two thousand posts LMAO, on an obscure forum at that, So are you proffesionals LOL.

You cannot add.

Post your links, list the steps or provide video proof. Any will do. What you have provided to this point will not suffice and reflects poorly on you.

No tenured professional SF member is married to an IT belief system. Prove your claim or move on.