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    Installing W7 from an Ipod/ External HDD?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by AsILayDaing, Mar 12, 2011.

  1. AsILayDaing

    AsILayDaing Notebook Consultant

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    Is it okay to do this? I left my copy of windows 7 in my house and i'm doing a clean install on a laptop when i remembered. lol
     
    AsILayDaing, Mar 12, 2011
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    And is it also possible that the windows 7 installer will work on a disk partition?
     
    AsILayDaing, Mar 12, 2011
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    The device needs to be bootable and you cant just have a .iso file on the disk, you need to do some preaparation with the installation files othewise it won't work.

    There are a lot of possibilities to do this, Microsoft has even made a tool to prepare an USB device for installing Windows 7. See here.
     
    svl7, Mar 12, 2011
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    yeah i checked it out. but i was wondering if it is okay to put the installer with other files? like installer files on the root, then make a folder for other files? :)
     
    AsILayDaing, Mar 13, 2011
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    You can just drag and drop the files... that's why I gave you the linke. You need the boot sector of the Win7 DVD/ .iso as well.

    And you need to format your storage device, the tool I mentioned will do this too afaik. I'm not sure whether it works on a partition but you can give it a try. Make sure to backup the other files on your storage device before using the tool.

    And make sure your device is bootable.


    Here's a way to do the whole thing manually, without the Windows tool.
     
    svl7, Mar 13, 2011
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