Henrybuiusa
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I have a portable hard drive 270gb. I want to install Windows 7 on it. Anybody knows? I need help. Thanks
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Windows 7
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- Windows 7
How to install Windows 7 on a portable hard drive
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emerald08
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As far as I know.
All the Windows iterations I've tried will not boot from an external drive.
If anyone can get Seven to do it- I want to know how
All the Windows iterations I've tried will not boot from an external drive.
If anyone can get Seven to do it- I want to know how
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W7 Professional X64Core i5-5204gbNVIDIA NVS3100M
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell Latitude e6510
- OS
- W7 Professional X64
- CPU
- Core i5-520
- Memory
- 4gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA NVS3100M
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 23" Samsung
- Screen Resolution
- 1920X1080
- Hard Drives
- Intel X-25M 80gb
You can try this method and try your luck: http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/1607-how-install-windows-7-usb-stick.html
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Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB...6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB...AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic)
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- Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN
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- Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
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- Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache)
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- Samsung Electronics
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- 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1)
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- AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic)
- Sound Card
- Realtek High Definition Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display
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- 1366x768
- Hard Drives
- 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD
- Internet Speed
- sucks
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- Microsoft Security Essentials
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- Google Chrome (Sync enabled)
If its bootable, it may work.
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Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB...6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB...AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic)
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN
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- Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
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- Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache)
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- Samsung Electronics
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- 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1)
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic)
- Sound Card
- Realtek High Definition Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x768
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- 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD
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My portable hard drive connected with PC by USB port, not eSATA. How to install windows 7 on the portable hard drive, please help.
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Windows 7
- OS
- Windows 7
emerald08
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Just try it.
Direct your installation to your external drive and tell us what happens!
If that doesn't work. Take out the HDD from your external and swap it with your internal.
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.
And give us a report.
Direct your installation to your external drive and tell us what happens!
If that doesn't work. Take out the HDD from your external and swap it with your internal.
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.
And give us a report.
My Computer
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W7 Professional X64Core i5-5204gbNVIDIA NVS3100M
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell Latitude e6510
- OS
- W7 Professional X64
- CPU
- Core i5-520
- Memory
- 4gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA NVS3100M
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 23" Samsung
- Screen Resolution
- 1920X1080
- Hard Drives
- Intel X-25M 80gb
You will have to rewrite the kernel, or at least the USB stack. Don't confuse installing from USB with running from USB. The install actually runs from a RAM drive.
To satisfy your curiosity, try this. Assumes you can boot from USB.
Install the ext disk in your PC as a single disk.
Install OS.
Remove "ext" disk and put it back in ext housing.
Modify BIOS to boot from CD, then USB (or USB first, but I would do it CD - USB)
Modify BIOS - no internal drives (step may not be necessary).
Attach USB ext disk and boot.
Estimated time on task: 75 minutes or less.
Estimated percentage of wasted time: 100%
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thank all of you for helping. But, no method worked at all. I want to insert USB cable (the Portable HD)into the USB port and install windows 7 on portable hd in order to run the OS from this portable HD afterwards. Need anybody's help.
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Windows 7
- OS
- Windows 7
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64-bit Windows 8.1 ProCore(TM) i5 CPU 4330 Haswell @ 3.20GHz12.00 GBIntel(R) HD Graphics
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- LENOVO K450 @3.0GHZ
- OS
- 64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro
- CPU
- Core(TM) i5 CPU 4330 Haswell @ 3.20GHz
- Motherboard
- LENOVO
- Memory
- 12.00 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel(R) HD Graphics
- Sound Card
- Intel HD integtrated
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP 25' ISP Monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1900/1020
- Hard Drives
- (1) ST1000DM003-1CH162 (2) Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device (3) Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device
- Internet Speed
- 100mb down/10mb up
Nightl3lade
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Nom nom nom
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xp proAMD Phenom II X4 940 DenebWINTEC AMPX DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 4x1GBATI Radeon 4870
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- custom
- OS
- xp pro
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb
- Motherboard
- ECS BLACK SERIES A790GXM-A
- Memory
- WINTEC AMPX DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 4x1GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon 4870
- Sound Card
- -
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 20" and 24"
- Hard Drives
- WD Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200 RPM
- PSU
- OCZ700GXSSLI 700W
- Case
- XION Stacker XON-791B
- Cooling
- ZALMAN CNPS9700 110mm CPU Cooler
- Keyboard
- 15$ logitech
- Mouse
- overpriced razer
- Internet Speed
- 5 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up (best offered in my area) *sadface*
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
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
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vistaintel i74gb ramati radion
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- vista
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- intel i7
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- blarg
- Memory
- 4gb ram
- Graphics Card(s)
- ati radion
- Sound Card
- pwnage
- Internet Speed
- 50mb
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.
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xp, vistantel centrinonivada geforce
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- fujitsu siemens
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- xp, vista
- CPU
- ntel centrino
- Graphics Card(s)
- nivada geforce
I used a different technique and
1. Booted from the USB HDD beast, (Don't remember which way)
2. got the floating flowers,
3. then the white stepladder, then reboot.
GOTO 1.
Estimated time on task: 25 minutes or less.
Estimated percentage of wasted time: 99.1285%
I think it has to do with the registry and the USB drivers, having perused:
disk.sys,
various USB*.inf,
entry someplace of: HKLM\xxxx\services\USB???,BOOTFLAGS,0x 00010003,4 then
"DeviceHackFlags" and in that area...
VHDMP.inf has "Bootflags"=%REG_DWORD_NO_CLOBBER%,2
and SERVICE_DEMAND_START=3
which may be interesting, since he'll boot OK from VHD, etc.
That was 2 months ago - dropped off to torrent iso's,
had to learn that shet too...
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XP_Pro, W7_7201, W7RC.vhd, SciLinux5.3, Fedor...AMD 64x21 gigDunno
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Gateway GT5056
- OS
- XP_Pro, W7_7201, W7RC.vhd, SciLinux5.3, Fedora12, Fedora9_2x, OpenSolaris_09-06
- CPU
- AMD 64x2
- Motherboard
- Yes
- Memory
- 1 gig
- Graphics Card(s)
- Dunno
- Sound Card
- Realtek something
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung SyncMaster 940MW w/TV
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- 250 GB WD, USB Seagate Freedesk 1.5 T
- Internet Speed
- Cable modem
- Other Info
- 1 + 1 = 10b,
7 + 7 = 16o,
a + b = 15h.
AAIRON
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Use VMWARE
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.:sarc:
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:roflmao:
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.:sarc:
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:roflmao:
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vista eternityE7400 @ 3.6 ghz4 gig ddr 2gtx 295
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- ASUS
- OS
- vista eternity
- CPU
- E7400 @ 3.6 ghz
- Motherboard
- ASUS p5gc-mx1333
- Memory
- 4 gig ddr 2
- Graphics Card(s)
- gtx 295
- Sound Card
- --
- Monitor(s) Displays
- --
- Hard Drives
- -
- PSU
- -
So, post the steps on how to do it. Or, post some links. Or a video of your machine booting.
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XP_Pro, W7_7201, W7RC.vhd, SciLinux5.3, Fedor...AMD 64x21 gigDunno
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Gateway GT5056
- OS
- XP_Pro, W7_7201, W7RC.vhd, SciLinux5.3, Fedora12, Fedora9_2x, OpenSolaris_09-06
- CPU
- AMD 64x2
- Motherboard
- Yes
- Memory
- 1 gig
- Graphics Card(s)
- Dunno
- Sound Card
- Realtek something
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung SyncMaster 940MW w/TV
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- 250 GB WD, USB Seagate Freedesk 1.5 T
- Internet Speed
- Cable modem
- Other Info
- 1 + 1 = 10b,
7 + 7 = 16o,
a + b = 15h.
AAIRON
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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.
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vista eternityE7400 @ 3.6 ghz4 gig ddr 2gtx 295
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- ASUS
- OS
- vista eternity
- CPU
- E7400 @ 3.6 ghz
- Motherboard
- ASUS p5gc-mx1333
- Memory
- 4 gig ddr 2
- Graphics Card(s)
- gtx 295
- Sound Card
- --
- Monitor(s) Displays
- --
- Hard Drives
- -
- PSU
- -
You cannot add.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.
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.
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