Install Win 7 On USB Drive
May 22, 2009
I have seen questions about installing from a USB reader.
What I would like to do is install Win 7 on a USB HDD. I have seen nothing on this that was helpful.
I have a basic case and 2gb of memory, usb reader and 600gb. It sees the usb HDD and Windows 7 boots from the usb reader. It looks good until it gets ready to install then I get this statement "Windows 7 can not be installed on this drive".
I then click on more info and get "Windows 7 can not be installed on drive 2. Then gives several possible causes."
None of the causes are valid.
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Jan 25, 2012
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Current setup:
C: Boot, Corsair SSD
D: Files, samsung HDD
D:/boot files/user/(all user account directories moved here, when possible) I'm wondering if it's possible to install games such as Assasins' Creed or Skrym, but install all game data to this folder?D:/boot files/programs/* Many installers allow you to define a custom installation path, But I am unsure if these games would ask for one or force me to install to the default directory?
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I have tried numerous times on my PC to install Windows 7 onto my Sata Drive to no avail. Yet as soon as I plug in my IDE HD it installs fine.I have unplugged all external peripherals USB and internal Card Reader. Set my Bios ok as it sees both the Hard Drive and DVD fine (Both in the bios and during selection of hard drive during windows 7 installation). Yet when I come to install it, it craps out at a random percentage saying cannot read from source or worse yet it crawls so slow through the percentages (I really don't think Windows 7 should take 6 hours to get to 15%!!) Yet both the hard drive and dvd are fine and the disc works great on my other PC without the sata drive in.
My motherboard is a Biostar G31-M7 TE with latest bios now what is odd is that I recently updated the BIOS to the latest one so does my problem come from here or was it always going to be a problem on this board? Also when I do have Windows 7 installed on the IDE drive when I plug in ther sata drive inside the whole system goes belly up (from freezes when transferring large files to just not seeing the drive)
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Mar 22, 2012
I have a new copy of windows y 64 bit ultimate. I currently use w7 64 home premium and it is on C drive and the drive is a sata 2 drive. But when I build my new system I want to install onto a new drive which is sata 6.0 and I have made a partition on that drive (letter M) for the O/S to be installed onto ( ive allowed 150Gb ).
So my question is when I build my system and am ready to install w7 can I install onto drive M on the new sata 6.0 drive?
I will unplug the old boot drive as I understand windows will boot to that if I dont unplug it, then when I have installed new O/S on the new drive, partition "M", I will plug it back in and format the old boot drive.
So then windows will boot to drive/partition M, if that works, and C drive will just become a data drive. I understand I probably will have to do some messing in bios, so any help with that will be good.
this will be my 1st build but I am not to bad with computers and have changed cpu's/HD's/gpu's/fans etc etc. but not mobo's and cases. And never changed a O/S onto another drive with a different boot drive letter.
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Aug 26, 2010
I should have come here first, but for several weeks, I started having serious crashing, freezing, then the dreaded BSOD on my upgraded Windows 7 PC.
Finally it wouldn't even boot back in Windows 7. I could not find my Upgrade Disk or Repair Disk at the time, but I had a Ubuntu Disk. So I foolhardy installed Ubuntu on a 2nd HDD in my system, think I would be able to fix Windows 7 later.
Now I've found the Windows 7 (upgrade) disks. But I can't repair Windows 7 nor can't figure out how to re-install, it doesn't give me that option, that I can find. I've removed the Ubuntu drive, but Grub is still installed.
I would like to do a clean install (since I have already backed up my important files using Ubuntu). Will following this: SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation do the trick?
Once I get it re-installed, and if it crashes again, I'll do the memtest and other troubleshooting found here.
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my C is failing. luckily i have a D drive. which is running now. i have a brand new internal HDD coming tomorrow along with a HDD USB dock. now what i was going to do is remove both C and D drives, put the new one in and install 7 on there and have it as my main drive. is it possible to just install OS onto a drive like that? or should i leave D in and replace C and install it via D and follow up by reformatting my D drive?
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Jan 23, 2010
How does one install a new program (Windows 7 64-bit) on the D drive? Dell formatted the hard drive with a C and D partition, though by default everything goes to C. C is almost full, and D drive is in fact the larger of the two partitions. How does one install new programs to the D drive so as to not have C fill up?? I have Windows 7 64-bit, so doe I need two program folders on the D drive?? That is, one called "Program Files" and the other called "Programs Files (x86)"???
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Jan 25, 2009
Installs from a flash drive tend to take about 75% of the time it takes with a DVD. On my C2Q Q6600 it meant 20 mins instead of 29.This is for those who are having issues with running from a DVD, or just want to try it out/get it done faster.Back up the files from your USB drive, as it WILL get formatted in this process and all data on it will be lost!
1. Get a USB Drive, it must be at least 4 GB.
2. Plug the drive into your PC.
3. Open a command prompt as administrator. (Right click, Open as Admin, or Ctrl+Shift+ Click)
4. Get the drive number by typing:diskpart list disk On my machine the USB disk was number 1.
5. Format the drive by typing:
-select disk 1
-clean
-create partition primary
-select partition 1
-active
-format fs=NTFS
-assign
-exit
6. Mount the Windows 7 beta iso or insert the disk.
7. Navigate to the boot directory cd E:oot (Where E is the drive letter of the DVD)
8. Using bootsect, we’ll make the USB drive a bootable NTFS drive, ready for a Windows 7 image: bootsect /nt60 F: (Where F is the drive letter of the USB Drive)
9. Close the command prompt
10. Copy the installation files from the mounted Windows 7 iso/disk to the USB drive.
11. Reboot the PC, and enter the BIOS (OR you can move to the boot manager menu, usually by pressing F10 if supported)
12. Set the boot priority to boot the USB drive first.
13. Install Windows 7.
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CPU: Intel Pentium E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 2.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz 5-5-5-18
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Aug 16, 2011
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During the install it gives me the error 0x80070017 and says it can't install. I looked up the error on google and it says that it's data corruption. It happens every time! I've rebooted, uninstalled / reinstalled other games, triple checked that there was nothing in C:/oblivion, everything I can think of.
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Oct 23, 2009
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I believe it is remnants of my old vista recovery drive, which I did not erase prior to my upgrade and was always equally full to what it is now.
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I�m trying to install Windows 7 on my backup computer. I initially installed it from the setup but the C drive is too small so I cannot install other programs so I want to install it on a larger hard drive. I have a larger hard drive that I formatted but I can�t seem to install Windows 7 on that drive. If I remove the C drive where the original one is installed and replace it with the larger drive I can�t boot from the reformatted C drive. I created a recovery disk and can make some progress but it still won�t let me install Windows 7 on the almost empty disk.The setup says it is the secondary not the primary and I can�t seem to force it to be the primary although it is recognized in the setup. If I put the original disk with Windows 7 back in I can boot up and run the install but I don�t think there is a way to install it on a drive that is not the C drive so that The larger drive is then visible and I can open the few small files I put on it as a test so I know the drive is ok. I tried putting the restore files on the larger disk but that doesn�t work.
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Aug 7, 2009
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Oct 30, 2012
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Nov 3, 2009
I have a 20GB laptop HDD in an enclosure at the moment. I want to copy the Windows 7 setup files from the extracted ISO to that drive for installation. I did this with XP by using the following:
Code: C:xp3I386winnt32.exe /syspart:E: /tempdrive:E: /makelocalsource /noreboot
For the XP install I hooked up the drive via a usb-to-ide interface to another laptop and then ran that line from a command prompt and stepped through copying the needed setup files to the drive.
From there I placed the HDD into the desired laptop (no working cd/dvd rom) and booted up into Windows setup. I do not believe this will work for 7 as there seems to be a directory structure difference to say the least. I wonder if that would still work had I the correct syntax though...
Is it possible to do this with Windows 7?
*The laptop is a DELL Inspiron 1100. The BIOS does not support booting from a USB device.
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Nov 6, 2009
Currently I have Vista Ultimate (32-bit) and I want to keep that in place for a while. I have a limited amount of space in my machine so I have bought a HD caddy bay so that I can swap in a new hard disk from the front of the machine. I have bought two new drives and I have two caddies, so either one of those drives can be inserted.
I don't want to hotswap, I am happy to power down to swap the caddy. Once the caddy is inserted it behaves as if it is plugged into sata05, (DVD is sata04) in other words, it is just another hard disk. (sata00 is the system drive with Vista, sata01 is a hard disk used to store data. 02 and 03 are not available.)
This is what I want to do. I want to clean install Windows 7 onto one of the removeable drives. I expect the install process to see that Vista is on the system drive and then set BCD to dual boot. If this happens, of course, it means that sometimes the Windows 7 caddy won't be inserted (the other caddy might have a ::cough:: linux distro), so I really just want the machine to default to Vista boot. I guess I can use bootrec to restore the dual boot options so that it just has Vista (and wipe any reference to Windows 7).
If I do this, how do I boot to Windows 7? When I start my Dell I can press F12 to get a menu of the devices to boot from, if I have the Windows 7 (or ::cough:: linux) caddy inserted, will I be able to use this menu to boot from that drive? If so, then I'll be happy.
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Nov 11, 2009
Want to install Windows 7 on second drive....How?
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How can I do that?
Also how will I select which Windows I want to log on to?
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Nov 12, 2009
I am planning to buy windows 7 within 2 weeks. I am currently using windows xp.
My computer specs is
Processor : pentium-4 2.93 ghz
Ram : 632 ghz (512+128)
OS : WIN XP
Hard drive : 80gb
Screen res:1024x768
I partitioned my hard drive into 4 (c,d,e,f), C drive contains Windows Xp and each drive is with 7.5 gb stored.
I want to keep my xp as it is and i want to install windows 7 also.
Is is possible to partition my drive and use it for xp and windows 7, if so pleaseee help me or specify any perfect tutorial on the web.
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Nov 20, 2009
I have Windows 7 rc running on one of my 2 ide drives, with XP on an SATA drive - dual booting.
I purchased a 500gb SATA drive to replace the the 2 ide drives
The plan is to:
- connect the new drive while shutdown
- boot into XP
- Partition new drive, with the first partition active(with partition Magic).
- Transfer non-OS partition data to the new ones
- shut down and disconnect the ide drives
- insert Windows 7 disc and perform install on first partion of new drive.
I understand that the MBR is on the Windows 7 partition.
Will I have any problems with the XP install, or will the new Windows 7 install create a new MBR to allow dual boot?
I know I'll have issues with drive letters. But other than the XP, and Windows 7 partitions it's just data - no programs.
Or, are there any other problems you see with my procedure?
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