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Windows 7 on external HDD
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25. August 2009 @ 09:27 |
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I was just given the RC for Win7. I wanted to put it on an external hard drive for my laptop that internally runs vista. Can I run Win7 from the external HDD? Even if it's just for testing purposes?
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25. August 2009 @ 12:09 |
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If you can boot from your external HDD, you can. If not, you can't.
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25. August 2009 @ 12:14 |
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Can someone boot from a external HDD with a laptop running vista?
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25. August 2009 @ 20:33 |
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It's a function of your laptop, not the OS.
If you go into the laptop BIOS, do you have an option to boot from USB device?
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26. August 2009 @ 02:20 |
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Originally posted by dailun:
It's a function of your laptop, not the OS.
If you go into the laptop BIOS, do you have an option to boot from USB device?
XP never was able to boot from USB, even with compatable BIOS. Vista/win7 do no suffer from this problem.
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26. August 2009 @ 03:57 |
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My brother tried to install vista on a removable hardrive last week,wouldn't let him, said cant be installed on removable drive or external drive? I've never tried so it was news to me,guessing windows 7 will be the same.
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scorpNZ
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26. August 2009 @ 05:30 |
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If you have recovery disks for vista install win 7 in it's place, tho creating a backup image of vista would be better before overwriting,or setup an extended partition & dual boot or run win 7 on the external using a VPC, Use MSVPC 2007
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26. August 2009 @ 09:03 |
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yea, i have a option to boot from usb. What the scenario actually is, is I have win7 on my spare laptop harddrive that is also SATA. So, I want to enclose that and make it usb. So, if I do get the enclosure(which is another problem) can't I just plug it in and boot from it since it's already installed?
Red 30GB iPod video customized by Colorware and Citrix
2nd Gen iPod Shuffle
Toshiba Satellite 305D Laptop
XBOX 360 Arcade(Bought by ex-girlfriend)
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 26. August 2009 @ 09:04
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scorpNZ
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26. August 2009 @ 14:15 |
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Problem with that is it's already got drivers for a different machine,the time it would take to sort that out isn't worth the effort in the end it's over to you,clean install would be my first choice so any reason that drive can't be put into the laptop instead & have win 7 reinstalled
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jony218
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26. August 2009 @ 19:55 |
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use the free virtualbox and just run windows 7 from within vista. It's very easy to do.
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28. August 2009 @ 08:53 |
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its actually got the drivers for my current laptop because I used this laptop to install it on the spare HDD.
Red 30GB iPod video customized by Colorware and Citrix
2nd Gen iPod Shuffle
Toshiba Satellite 305D Laptop
XBOX 360 Arcade(Bought by ex-girlfriend)
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