switch on some OS in a removable disk

[hesam]

hi
how may boot up some many of OS exist in a hard disk external or removable disk Direction installing a OS of many OS?
such as i have a windows 7 & windows 8 & windows xp i want install windows 7 ,i don't like other os for installing.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I'll have a stab at this mate as it is a bit confusing.

Now do you have all those OS's and want to install just one of them on a hard drive or do you have them all on one drive and wish the 7 to be the boot OS?

Some system specs would be real helpful too Speccy - Download

 

[hesam]

install windows

I'll have a stab at this mate as it is a bit confusing.

Now do you have all those OS's and want to install just one of them on a hard drive or do you have them all on one drive and wish the 7 to be the boot OS?

Some system specs would be real helpful too Speccy - Download

yes i have all those OS's and want to install just one of them on a hard drive
now i should what do?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Personally I would pick 7 but hey it's your machine and depends what you want out of it.

Is the drive clean, new, spinner, or SSD?

 

[alphanumeric]

You'll have to clarify your original post, its hard to understand what you are asking. maybe some of these tutorials will help.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html?filter
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/7943-install-windows-7-fast-without-dvd-usb-device.html?filter
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?filter

 

[ICIT2LOL]

You'll have to clarify your original post, its hard to understand what you are asking. maybe some of these tutorials will help.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html?filter
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/7943-install-windows-7-fast-without-dvd-usb-device.html?filter
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?filter

Actually alpha unless I have it terribly wrong the OP reply to my query says he has all of those OS's and I take that as the install media/s and I then said what I would do and then left it to the OP to decide which one he was going to install.

I do know what you are saying and myself faced with the CD method unless 7 has the SP1 on it I would choose the stick method.

Anyway I'll leave as I don't want to get in the way.

 

[hesam]

Personally I would pick 7 but hey it's your machine and depends what you want out of it.

Is the drive clean, new, spinner, or SSD?



The is Drive clean

 

[Britton30]

Are you asking if it is possible to run w7 from a DVD drive? If so, no you can;t.

 

[alphanumeric]

You'll have to clarify your original post, its hard to understand what you are asking. maybe some of these tutorials will help.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html?filter
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/7943-install-windows-7-fast-without-dvd-usb-device.html?filter
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?filter

Actually alpha unless I have it terribly wrong the OP reply to my query says he has all of those OS's and I take that as the install media/s and I then said what I would do and then left it to the OP to decide which one he was going to install.

I do know what you are saying and myself faced with the CD method unless 7 has the SP1 on it I would choose the stick method.

Anyway I'll leave as I don't want to get in the way.

I must have made a decafe by accident this morning, I missed his reply some how.

 

[hesam]

no, i mean is that i have some os that not installed and i only copy contents them in a hard drive external such as windows 7 or xp or 8 i want will boot up my system to install one of them ,i can select of among them for installing?
how i do it?

 

[Britton30]

You can't boot from an external USB hard drive.

 

[hesam]

so,i how do it?

 

[alphanumeric]

If your intent is to boot from the external drive and select an OS to install from a list, that is no easy feat to accomplish. I don't know of an easy way to do it. You would likely have to do it from the preinstallation environment.
Microsoft Windows PE
Are these copies of Windows copies of the install disks?

 

[alphanumeric]

You can't boot from an external USB hard drive.

It is possible to boot from a USB external hard drive. It's not easy but its doable. "Windows To Go" for example. Microsoft doesn't want you to do it with Windows 7 but it has been done. How practical it is I don't know. I wouldn't think it would work very well, especially if you start plugging it into different hardware.

 

[Britton30]

Thanks Kerry, I was going with what my board manual says about booting from USB, it doesn't support it. Never tried though.

 

[AddRAM]

I give you guys credit, I was lost :shock: on what he actually wants to do, that is

 

[alphanumeric]

Thanks Kerry, I was going with what my board manual says about booting from USB, it doesn't support it. Never tried though.

No problem. My two ASUS motherboards support it. My new ASUS laptop too. I do all my installs from USB thumb drives. It is so much faster than doing it from the DVD. I don't have an optical drive in either of my desktop PC's, I have just about everything I need on thumb drives or external USB hard drives. I have a USB DVD burner for burning disks and loading games that use DRM.

 

[Britton30]

Gotcha, I can boot a thumb drive and install w7, done it a few times. Haven't tried booting an OS from USB though.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hum the closest I got was to clone a HDD (hooked up with the gadget) from an external but you need the "middleman" HDD operating the machine to do the cloning.

Still think a straight stick install is best what hesam would like to do sounds like an awful lot of grief.

 

[alphanumeric]

Gotcha, I can boot a thumb drive and install w7, done it a few times. Haven't tried booting an OS from USB though.

I very briefly played around with the Windows 8 "Windows To Go". I installed it to a USB 2.0 external enclosure that had an IDE desktop drive in it. It was OK, a little slow but I was expecting that.
Anyway hopefully the OP gets back to us with what exactly they want to do.