Making a portable Win7 usb

[tsundere]

Hello all

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I have some simple questions to which i cannot find answers anywhere else.

My goal is to install any version of windows 7 'on' a usb drive or external hdd (not 'from' but 'on').
From what I understand win7 x64 ultimate w/ SP1 seems to be the safest way since it has more drivers. Please let me know if I'm wrong. My motherboard(x64) seems to be uefi-based with legacy-boot support available, but SATA/AHCI options are unavailable in the BIOS menu. The internal hdd is eMMc.

I am following this tutorial:How To Install Windows 7 On USB Flash/Hard Drive [Easy Way]

How exactly should I format/partion/scheme the external hdd?

Some tutorials say that system and boot partitions can be on the same partition with both being NTFS (4028kb cluster?). But this link says otherwise: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/faq/en_US/How-to-use-WinToUSB-ISO-To-USB.html
GPT or MBR? VHD or Legacy?

Any suggestions for which tool I should use for partitioning?

Thankyou

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I usually just use option 2 here and call it a day
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html#option2

I usually just use MBR seeing I would only really need 3 max partitions and I'm wouldn't ever install windows on a disk that was over 500gb's

I also never install with a efi or ntfs 100mb... system reserved partition either.

 

[AddRAM]

Mike, he doesn`t want to create an installer, he wants to install Windows 7 on the usb stick.

 

[SIW2]

If you create small system partition FAT32 and main windows partition NTFS, should be fine.

Hello all

,




I have some simple questions to which i cannot find answers anywhere else.

My goal is to install any version of windows 7 'on' a usb drive or external hdd (not 'from' but 'on').
From what I understand win7 x64 ultimate w/ SP1 seems to be the safest way since it has more drivers. Please let me know if I'm wrong. My motherboard(x64) seems to be uefi-based with legacy-boot support available, but SATA/AHCI options are unavailable in the BIOS menu. The internal hdd is eMMc.

I am following this tutorial:How To Install Windows 7 On USB Flash Drive or External Hard Drive

How exactly should I format/partion/scheme the external hdd?

Some tutorials say that system and boot partitions can be on the same partition with both being NTFS (4028kb cluster?). But this link says otherwise: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/faq/en_US/How-to-use-WinToUSB-ISO-To-USB.html
GPT or MBR? VHD or Legacy?

Any suggestions for which tool I should use for partitioning?

Thankyou

 

[tsundere]

If you create small system partition FAT32 and main windows partition NTFS, should be fine.

Hello all

,




I have some simple questions to which i cannot find answers anywhere else.

My goal is to install any version of windows 7 'on' a usb drive or external hdd (not 'from' but 'on').
From what I understand win7 x64 ultimate w/ SP1 seems to be the safest way since it has more drivers. Please let me know if I'm wrong. My motherboard(x64) seems to be uefi-based with legacy-boot support available, but SATA/AHCI options are unavailable in the BIOS menu. The internal hdd is eMMc.

I am following this tutorial:How To Install Windows 7 On USB Flash Drive or External Hard Drive

How exactly should I format/partion/scheme the external hdd?

Some tutorials say that system and boot partitions can be on the same partition with both being NTFS (4028kb cluster?). But this link says otherwise: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/faq/en_US/How-to-use-WinToUSB-ISO-To-USB.html
GPT or MBR? VHD or Legacy?

Any suggestions for which tool I should use for partitioning?

Thankyou

I am a bit newb to this, would you care to tell me exactly how to do that?

 

[tsundere]

Sorry my tutorial link in the OP was wrong. I have updated it with the correct one. Essentially I'm trying to use a program called wintousb

 

[SIW2]

No idea if wintousb does partitioning.

If you are using usb, windows might only recognise 1 partition. So you can use Bootice to do it.

View attachment Bootice.zip

 

[AddRAM]

The problem you`re going to have is, every machine you try to run that usb stick on is going to be different, trying to install drivers and what not. I just don`t see the point, when you could just run a version of Linux.

What`s your purpose for doing this ???

 

[tsundere]

The problem you`re going to have is, every machine you try to run that usb stick on is going to be different, trying to install drivers and what not. I just don`t see the point, when you could just run a version of Linux.

What`s your purpose for doing this ???

Yea, I plan to marry the usb and laptop together. I just want to use Windows 7 on this laptop really badly. It didn't want to install on the internal emmc hdd, so now I'm trying this.