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how!? install win7 x64 to external drive for testing, huge struggle
Hi,
Im trying to install win7 to an external hard drive for troubleshooting my current system, and cant find a guide for this that works. Was looking here
How To Install Windows 7 On USB Flash Drive or External Hard Drive
WinToUSB - How to use WinToUSB?
Install Windows 7 without USB or DVD without upgrading! - All
but these guides are old and dont work, no matter what I do. Ive tried that, wintousb software, all kinds of elaborate hogwash. Since microsoft sucks massive ba11s and wont let you install to a USB in the standard way, Ive had to spend 6+ hours trying to figure out this annoying sh1t. Sorry but this is really making me mad, I swear you try to fix one thing it leads to down this convoluted never ending path of NOTHINGWORKINGNESS. Im trying to diagnose whether my gpu related crash is due to OS problems, so being able to isolate it on a new install of win7 would help.
I basically take my 1tb drive, erase, create a R partition 100 MB NTFS, called SysReserve, then the other 931 gb become K partition NTFS. I use the tools in the guides to install windows files and the boot files, then it says successful and everything should be hunky dory. But no, the hard drive will not boot, blue screen crashes every time, cannot run through the windows install process. No I DONT want multiboot unless its the last resort, as this drive is only temporary, Id like it totally separate from current windows I have. If you have a solution then I will be flabbergasted and I wont have to /wrists.
F!@# microsoft this is exactly the type of crap (blue screens, gpu crashes, never finding solutions) that proves mac and linux > windows. I can install a hackintosh installation to an external HD in 15 minutes on my PC but not windows itself. Facepalm....