Is it possible to have multiple...

[TipsyHitman]

I have my external drive, setup with multiple partitions one for Windows 7 and one for Windows Vista for installing from. In theory it won't show me a list of which to boot from, it will pick the first one that was marked as active, correct? Is it possible to show a menu to pick which one I want to boot from, or is it only possible by marking the one I need as active and the other not. I don't mind going in and marking which is active, but it would make it a lot simpler if i didn't have to do that each time.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello TipsyHitman, welcome to Seven Forums!



You say you have Windows booting from an external Hard Disk Drive (HDD), how is that HDD connected to the motherboard, USB, eSATA ... ?

 

[TipsyHitman]

Thanks.
Its connected via USB.

By windows 7 and vista I mean the installers for them not the actual OS.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Thanks.
Its connected via USB.

By windows 7 and vista I mean the installers for them not the actual OS.

And you already have Windows 7 / Vista installed and starting-up/booting from that HDD?

 

[TipsyHitman]

Well what I want it to do is when I boot from the USB HDD, I can select Windows 7 Installer or Windows Vista Installer, from any computer I boot from. It just makes it easier than having multiple USB drives or DVDs to install from, everything is all in one location. I'm running Windows 7 64bit off my internal HDD, but that shouldnt affect what I want to do.
I'm not actually running the OS off the HDD, just the setup.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

OK, I was wondering; I don't know if marking either active will make it start first, I haven't done installing from HDD at all; I just thought you were saying you had a Windows OS booting from an external.

Keep checking back as someone with info for you may be around at any time.

 

[gregrocker]

I have an 8gb flash stick I wrote Win7 ISO to using UltraISO trial version's Bootable tab. It places the extracted files into the root, so when not installing i put them into a folder alongside all of my other tools and apps. I have Vista on there too in its folder. When I want to install one of them I just spill the files out of the folder into the root and boot the stick.