Installation through Protable Hard dissk


  1. Alex8525
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    Windows Vista
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    Installation through Protable Hard dissk


    Hello,

    I have a question, just out of curiosity. I know how can I use a USB drive for installation of windows 7, but I have a portable western digital hard disk of 160 GB.

    Can I partition this hard disk to create a 4 GB partition and use that partition for installation of windows 7? If yes then how can I do it?

    Thanks,
    Alex
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  3. Jonathan_King
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    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    Hello!

    I am sorry, it is currently impossible to install from an external hard drive. I don't know, maybe if you stuck all the files on it, and ran setup.exe from within Windows, it would work, but you cannot boot from it.
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