How can i make/install windows 7 using my external hard drive ?

Kaktussoft said:

ohh ic...is there a performance difference between AHCI/comparability ?

from wikipedia:
Some operating systems, notably Windows Vista and Windows 7, do not configure themselves to load the AHCI driver upon boot if the drive controller was not in AHCI mode at the time of installation. This can cause failure to boot with an error message if the SATA controller is later switched to AHCI mode. For this reason, Intel recommends changing the drive controller to AHCI or RAID before installing an operating system.

Did you change SATA settings to AHCI after installing windows? And that causes the boot failure.

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AHCI is separate from the SATA 3Gb/s standard, although it exposes SATA's advanced capabilities (such as hot swapping and native command queuing) such that host systems can utilize them.

Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See also Native Command Queuing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AHCI is default on on most machines! Don't know exactly what performance gain is. Only diskperformance gain if your disk is on heavy load with a lot of applications

yep...cause in AHCI i cant install the os at all no matter what i do ...then i decided what if i switch to comparability...then it worked changing it after os install gives me the 07B

theog said:

nah...toshiba complains and gives the bsod again

Can you report back on the HD Drive test.

ahh..chkdsk?

for the person having almost same problem...what happens if you try to tap f10? it should force the option thingy with safe mode etc or start normally....if that doesn't work your netbook/notebook have hidden partition for recovery,...since its a netbook it should have one...try pressing "0" while in boot....or search ur manufacturer website/google how to restore it to default....

just wanna ask...you wanna delete XP and install windows 7/ya wanna dual boot?

Kaktussoft said:

This is the message you should get

I get clearly the opposite:

"'bootsect' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operational program or bach file."

noelian13 said:

just wanna ask...you wanna delete XP and install windows 7/ya wanna dual boot?

The foremost. And F10 goes into BIOS and 0 doesn't do anything.

Kaktussoft said:

it worked before so you made a typo error

Yep, my bad on that. But before even though the message was corrected I got an error in the Boot Sector Manipulation Tool, which most likely is the reason why I cannot put this to work.

Kaktussoft said:

please post exact commands you did and output. be sure no files are open on E

First:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Henrique>E:\boot\bootsect /nt60 E: /force /mbr
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

E: (\\?\Volume{d96a3c36-39f2-11e1-a720-00265ebd4fa5})

Forced dismount complete, open handles to this volume are now invalid."

Second:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Henrique>E:\boot\bootsect /nt60 E: /force
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

E: (\\?\Volume{d96a3c36-39f2-11e1-a720-00265ebd4fa5})

Forced dismount complete, open handles to this volume are now invalid."