Reinstalling Boot Disc Not Working

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  1. Sassa
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    squonksc said:
    First, it doesn't have to click to be damaged.

    second, copying a few files is different than installing 11gb of files to it.

    Meaning sometimes you discover a disk is damaged when you write to sectors that hadn't been used before, or for a long time.

    Do a chkdsk on the drive. I'm pretty sure it will either find a lot of damaged sectors, or crash all together.

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    You beat me for couple of seconds...
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  3. SquonkSC
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       New #12

    You can't install Win7 on an external drive.
    (well at least not without some advanced tricks)
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  4. SquonkSC
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    Sassa said:
    Well said...
    You beat me for couple of seconds...
    Sorry my friend, I will try to type slower.
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  6. Zidane24
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    squonksc said:
    You can't install Win7 on an external drive.
    (well at least not without some advanced tricks)
    I didn't think you could do it no matter what...when Windows boots it re-initializes USB devices...so it would kill itself everytime...unless you are able to turn off USB reinitialization in the HAL
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  7. Antman
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    See How to install Windows 7 on a portable hard drive

    So many try, so many fail. Have yet to try it with eSATA, which should work after all, it is driven from an internal connection.
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  8. Zidane24
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    Antman said:
    See How to install Windows 7 on a portable hard drive

    So many try, so many fail. Have yet to try it with eSATA, which should work after all, it is driven from an internal connection.
    I can't believe they persisted after you explained the USB stack...

    To make it clear USB Reinitialzation + Windows 7 on External HD =======================================FAAAAAIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!???!?!?!?!?!!!!!!
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  10. Antman
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    How to install Windows 7 on a portable hard drive

    Revisited with link to hack/tweak
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