This is why I created a separate tools partition. I use this partition to put all my ISO images. Now tell your computer to boot from the USB hard drive. If successful your new boot menu will appear and each of the Windows Install? This is just what I need as I regularly setup computers for family, friends and relatives! Will try this out soon! I am just worried about viruses.
Say if I wanted to have 4 Primary partitions, how do I do this? Just don't plug in the drive until you are ready to format and outside of windows. If you boot from the external hard drive the virus can't crawl onto the drive. Using grub4dos and chainloading in to the ISO directly, you could create a multi version 64bit and x86 all version Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
ISO files and boot directly from the iso files themselves. Far more tidy and quite easy to configure, plus there is already a guide on how to do that I'll have to mess with that. I was able to create two USB sticks It might be a good idea to create the Tools partition as the first primary partition. You'll hit a "missing driver" error in Windows Setup.
While EasyBCD 2. Should make all of this a lot easier. I launch EasyBCD 2. A moment later it asks if I want to edit it and I click on Yes. A few moments later the bottom-left corner of EasyBCD displays a message that it was added successfully. I do this again. It gives me a pop-up asking me if I am sure because this is a different drive, and I hit Yes. Once it loads and enters, I see that it is Windows 7 and not Winodws 8 setup. I have tested this in a completely different system as well using a USB hard drive docking station and was successful with everything except, again, Windows 8.
Please help! It always boots into the Windows 7 installer when I try to boot into the Windows 8 installer. So do I apply Rufus on the second volume drive letter X that has the Windows 8 installation files, or do I apply it to the first volume drive letter W followed by installing BCD on it? I know this is an old topic, but can someone repost this link as plain text? For me, all this links on this page just get redirected to this page.
Searching for this topic in msfn also has not gotten me the info. Trying to pile all versions of windows 8. You can do this using Windows provided its a fixed disk device. If it does, click to open the Task Manager. In the Create new task dialog box, type explorer. Does this start Vista? If not, then it is a deeper problem. This is not supported. Install Vista on this drive. Replace the original drive as a slave drive. You could then boot Vista and recover your data from the slave drive.
Let us know if you need more help. Because diskpart works differently in Vista and XP. So he tried to format it in NTFS. Then, after what must have been years of experimenting if we are to believe that it took a full eternity to figure out something was wrong with different partitioning software, he found a working algorithm:.
This should delete everything on the USB drive and then make a new partition without a file system on it. Find your Vista Install Disk and find out what drive letter it has. On the Vista Disk there is a folder called boot. Copy this folder to your hard drive and remember where you put it. Consider yourself warned! He is a popular speaker and educator on all things design, web standards and open source. Seeing as his fancy IBM doesn??
Nice article. Like your brother, I lacked an optical drive on the PC in qesiton and any other Vista machine. With this article and a bit of fiddling myself I was able to make active the inactive bootable Vista partition on my HDD.
One clarification I would like to make to your article is that I had to boot a XP machine with the Vista installation disk, in order to get to a Vista command prompt and run diskpart in there. Apart from that, I did everything else as described above. VoldEMorT may be after step open cmd and type diskpart, you can type disk list to see which is your usb drive.. VoldEMorT may be after step open cmd and type diskpart, you can type list disk to see which is your usb drive..
I think I saw the same thing the first couple of times I tried to make a USB HDD bootable, and I think I solved it by doing a complete reformat of the drive in partition commander or something like that.
Thank you again. I got it to work by holding CTRL as soon as I saw windows loading, and holding it through windows startup. First, thank you for this guide. I have one problem which is unfortunately in the extremely important step. For some reason I can't get the repair command prompt console. Any ideas? Last year I upgraded to Win 7 I just experienced a bad infection that has caused me to reinstall Win 7.
My question is — can I go all the way back to vista and install the 64 version instead and then upgrade to Win 7 64? Hey, I'm having some trouble with last step. Any advice? First - thanks - works a treat. I've refurbished an older lap top with no recovery disks and a second hand hard drive and it runs like a dream now.
Only issue I had was using the hotkeys and enter to open CMD as administrator.
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