Windows 7 :: Dual Booting Using External Hard Disk

Install Dual Booting Os With Recovery Disk?

Sep 16, 2011

I had purchased dell XPS15 with Windows 7 professional, where dell is no more providing os installation media i made a recovery disk.

First i want partition C: drive without formatting it. and then How can i install dual booting os with this recovery disk?

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Booting From External Hard Drive?

Mar 5, 2012

Motherboard: Asus A8N5X

So after the hard drive fiasco that I reported in another thread, I got clever and decided to create an "Emergency Boot Drive" that would have Windows on it as well as some utilities for data recovery. I took one of the many old hard drives that I have floating around and plugged it into the computer AND unplugged my other two drives. Then I ran Windows Install off the DVD and installed Windows to the old drive. I installed my software. All was good. I plugged in the other two drives and tried to boot from the "Emergency" drive and it worked fine.Last step was to unplug the emergency drive from the motherboard, connect it via USB and try to boot. The BIOS sees the drive and I tell it to boot from the drive. So the computer is booting. The "Starting Windows" message comes up and then the system reboots. This happens everytime I try it.Does Windows reset the USB ports so that the drive suddenly vanishes?

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External Hard Drive Not Booting Up?

Nov 8, 2012

It just shows the blue colour only but not recognized by laptop

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Error Booting From External Hard Drive

Jan 5, 2010

I am trying to wipe my current XP installation clean and move on to Windows 7.

I first tried to install the setup.exe (Custom install option of course) from within the XP OS, but soon discovered you cannot do that and wipe out my only partition on C: at the same time.

I don't have a DVD-RW drive to write a boot disk, so instead I am trying to install through my external hard drive. I meticulously followed this tutorial from PC World yet when I instruct the PC in BIOS to boot from the external hard drive, I keep getting an "invalid system disk, press any key" error when the computer boots and looks for the setup files. This is despite the fact that setup seems to work perfectly from within the XP OS.

PC World tutorial:
Install Windows 7 From an External Hard Drive - PC World

Can anyone please offer me any helpful advice to get the external hard drive setup to work or help me find a way to install 7 from within XP?

Anyone know exactly why I keep getting the "invalid disk" error each time when I try to boot from my external hard drive? As mentioned in the PC World tutorial, I marked the external hard drive as an active partition and the setup files seem to work fine from within XP. If it helps, in the external hard drive root folder is both the Windows 7 ISO and all the files contained (which I extracted using PowerISO).

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Dual Booting Hard Drive With Windows 7 And Vista?

Feb 21, 2011

I have a laptop that has Vista installed on it. I have an upgrade disc for Windows 7 and I am thinking about performing a "clean installation" over the Vista OS - which I know is allowed, on the following link;click here Now, I would like to create another partition (on the same hard drive) and install Vista (using the same disc that it came with the laptop) onto that blank hard drive partition

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Dual Boot With External Hard Drive Or USB

Dec 30, 2009

I have a Dell Inspiron 1440 laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. Some of my older applications do not support this platform. My processor does not support Window Virtual PC and Windows XP mode so I was hoping to add XP as a dual boot. Is it possible to boot XP from an external harddrive or USB instead of having to partition the internal hard drive. Or do you have any suggestions on how I can load XP after Windows 7 is already loaded.

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Dual Boot With External Hard Drive

May 1, 2009

can I dual boot using an ext. Hard drive. I found an old 250gb phanton hd I've never used. Figured I could throw it in there. Would vista dual boot to that. Or no??

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Windows 7 Not Booting After Moving Hard Disk From Server To Desktop?

Apr 22, 2012

I have a server (HP Proliant ML350 G5) that has a hard disk with Windows 7 Enterprise and Ubuntu (I'll talk about that on UbuntuForums, though). I recently acquired a Dell Dimension 9150. I moved the hard disk from the server to the Dell. Now Windows won't boot. It gets as far as the OS selection. I select Windows 7 from the OS choices. I don't even get the Starting Windows screen. If I try Safe Mode, I get the driver loading screen, but nothing more than that. When I try Startup Repair, it hangs at "Loading Windows Files".I cannot re-install windows because of programs and admin tools found on that hard disk.

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Dual Boot Windows 7 And Ubuntu On External Hard Drive

Jun 21, 2010

Is it possible to dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu, with ubuntu on a external hard drive? I can connect my external hard drive via USB 2.0, USB 3.0 or E-SATA. I want windows 7 as my main OS.

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External Hard Disk Cannot Format?

Nov 9, 2012

what should i do, when i unable to format my external and when i click on xternal it appears the parameter is incorrect

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Can't Detect External Hard Disk?

Feb 15, 2013

I recently installed a program to allow my PC to read Mac formatted hard disks.However, it did not work and from then forward, my PC is unable to detect all other external hard disks, I've tried a few. The drives are not even showing on disk management. The lights on the hard disk do light up with I plug them in but nothing happens.

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External Hard Disk Self Ejects?

Nov 19, 2009

I have Windows 7 Professional 64Bit installed on a 250GB internal hard drive. I also have a 750 GB secondary drive installed in the system. When I connect an external hard drive to the computer and try to transfer some files (in this case a Windows 7 SDK DVD iso), the external hard drive self ejects and the transfer gets interrupted. The very next second the hard drive comes back on. I have made sure that it is not the external hard drive at fault as the same issue occurs with my flash drive and also my friend's external hard drive (with different files.) I usually did not care and retry it, but recently I have been loosing files when the hard drive ejects itself and it has started to get annoying. Sometimes the file just dose not transfer no matter how many times I try. All that happens is the hard drive gets disconnected and connected again till I just let it be.

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Why External Hard Disk Cannot Be Detected To All Pc

Sep 7, 2012

Why my external Hardisk cannot detect in any pc or laptop?

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How To Format External Hard Disk

Oct 30, 2012

Am unable to read or write in my hard disk.. every time it shows msg saying not accessible. i tried to format but even that is not happening. i tried using cmd prompt. but no use.

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Mirror Hard Drive To External USB Disk

May 27, 2011

I've an all-in-one computer but would like to mirror the hard drive with an external usb drive, main hd 1T internal and 2T external partitioned into 2x1T one for mirror and other for data. Is this possable, running 7 Ultimate.

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Computer Can't Detect External Hard Disk

Feb 20, 2012

My computer stopped detecting the external hard disk suddenly. I tried locating the drive in disk management but it is not showing up there.

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Looking For An External Hard Disk With A Power Off/on Button?

May 27, 2012

i'm looking for an external hard disk with a power off/on button ?about usb2 or 3 , i don't mind.i would like a button to power on and when i don't want to use a power off

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Recovery On External Hard Disk Drive?

Oct 20, 2011

to create a recovery media on WD external HDD of Windows 7 from the recovery partition on my sony vaio VPCEH25EN laptop. i'm unable to do so from VAIO CARE since it only asks for an optical drive or USB flash drive, so it's not detecting it as a usb flash drive.

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Windows 7 Cannot Copy More Than 2mb External Hard Disk

Jan 17, 2012

I cant copy files more than 2mb in external harddisk.But pen drive ok no problem

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USB External Hard Disk Drive Disappears?

Jan 17, 2012

my external hard disk is disappears.what should i do?

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Unable To Access External Hard Disk?

May 19, 2012

unable to access external hard disk?

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Skin External Hard Disk Do Not Recognize?

Jun 1, 2012

my external hard disk not recognised in my pc,but it working on other PC and lap tops

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Logitech Usb Hub Is Not Detecting External Hard Disk

Mar 1, 2010

Logitech usb hub is not detecting external hard disk seagate 320 gb fr. i have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit while connecting external hard disk directly to usb port its working but when i connecting this hard disk using logitech 4 port usb hub on the same usb port its not detecting but my pen drive is working through usb hub.

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Any Way To Use USB Flash As External Hard Disk On Windows 7?

Sep 25, 2012

How can I make flash usb 16b as external hard disk on windows 7.

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Dual Boot - Xp Wont Recognize 2nd Hard Disk

Jan 3, 2010

I setup my pc with 2 harddisk. I dual boot xp 32-bit and windows 7 64-bit on 1 harddisk and other harddisk is for my data storage for xp and 7. The problem is that windows 7 recognize the 2 harddisk and I can access the data but xp won't. Xp can see the harddisk on 'my computer' but it was listed RAW.

Anyone know how to fix it so that xp and 7 can access the 2nd harddisk?

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BSOD When Copy File To External Hard Disk

Jul 12, 2012

to debug the dump file as I m having BSOD when copy file to external hard disk. attached is all the info needed.

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45 Minutes To Transfer 65 GB Of Files Onto External Hard Disk

Aug 7, 2011

It took me 45 minutes to transfer 65 GB of files onto my external hard disk.Is this normal?

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External Hard Disk (packardbell) Will Not Show In Windows 7

Oct 1, 2011

My external hard disk up until a few weeks ago had been working perfectly. The next time I used it - windows 7 will not recognise it. I have tried different USB ports and computers. But it doesn't seem to work. It doesn't show up in device manager or disk manager. Its like nothing is plugged in. I tried switching hard disk cases and power supplies. But still nothing. The hard disk seems to try and run every so often, the light flashed red and it makes whirring noises as if it was connecting to the computer.

I dont know what else to do ? And it has almos 1500 GB of data.

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Moving Files On / From External Hard Disk Using ESATA

Mar 20, 2012

I've bought a Toshiba STOR.E D10 Zwart 1,5TB so that I can use e-SATA to connect it to my laptop. I've got a HP Probook 6555b with Windows 7 64bits. When I use the USB connection (this hard disk has both USB an eSATA) all works fine, no problem at all. When I connect it with the eSATA cable I can find the external hard disc and brwose through the files that are on it. However when I try to move files from my laptop onto the hard disk (or the other way around) after about 10 seconds it slows down and stops half way copying. Next Windows Explorer is not responding.