Can you install Windows 7 to a SD card?

Antman said:

ChuckR said:

Better question, what's the point?

Because it's there...

Oh, hell yeah!

A properly motivated individual can accomplish anything.

lol

Besides having 7 installed on any external drive or device you can simply have 7 as a boot option when attaching a vhd in the Disk Management tool. Once 7 goes afterwards it will become a new boot entry. Virtual Hard Drive VHD File - Create and Start with at Boot

For external usb hard drives one thing found out about installing any OS onto those even when removed from the external housing for use inside the case ia that the OS installed will run right into problems. When they say "storage" that's precisely what the drives are good for while programs you install will either run into snags or won't perform there like you expect to see with a regular internal model.

The model series is the main problem. With WD the Green Power drives removed and installed internally serve well for storage and run poorly for Windows especially. For portable VM apps by way of usb you lose out on access to your main drives with the exceptions of floppy and the dvd drive used there unless you can attach the vhd itself in the DM.

Glad to have some to pass your way! It's also one reason why I like having a second monitor for things like that!

I have a tendency to invent it if it's not there just to see what happens!

When the XP mode was first seen I simply had to find out if Vista and later the upgrade to 7 would work as well on the new Virtual PC.

And just think, that's only an understatement there!