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Answer» Can I have just an external hard drive - internal hard drive broke and run my COMPUTER? Sorry but hes lying to you, as we speak im running Windows 7 off of a 80gb EXTERNAL USB harddrive, as long as bios can boot from USB Storage, install your OS and your done. No, Thomas, I think you are lying to us. I've tried doing this with XP. Not possible.Maybe its down to the mobo and the bios itself??? not sure. i KNOW i was running on it yeserday. Due to the slow speeds of usb 1.1, 12.2mb/s. i gave up and am back on my laptop, as FAR as i know it should be able to be done, Salman TROUT, could you explain to me why? Quote from: Thomas_Horscroft on August 01, 2010, 05:49:37 AM Maybe its down to the mobo and the bios itself??? not sure. i know i was running on it yeserday. Due to the slow speeds of usb 1.1, 12.2mb/s. i gave up and am back on my laptop, as far as i know it should be able to be done, Salman Trout, could you explain to me why? No. You describe how you installed it. Quote from: Salmon Trout on August 01, 2010, 05:55:21 AM No. You describe how you installed it. Ok Salman, btw, i would actually like to try and get along with you. -Ok external harddrive is plugged in. -Bootup up i pressed F2 to getinto the BIOS menu. -Advanced CMOS options. -Boot menu -and i set USB storage device as first boot. -it obviously didnt boot as it was a clean drive. -i put in my 7 disc and followed standard procedures. -after wards i just leave the harddrive plugged in, obviosuly so it can boot from it. B But thats pretty much how i did it. This MOBO it was done on is a very old mobo not sure if different things would be able to be done with it. Regards.Sorry, I still don't believe you. Windows 7 will not install to a non-internal hard drive. It is designed that way. If it HELPS im running the 'Tiny' version of 7, modified and edited to *censored*.Oh, shoulda mentioned you were doing it illegally. Quote from: Thomas_Horscroft on August 01, 2010, 10:17:32 AM If it helps im running the 'Tiny' version of 7, modified and edited to *censored*. Exactly. It has to be taken off the install CD and heavily modified, with highly nonstandard stuff slipstreamed back in, and internal config files heavily edited. Anyhow, I don't believe you really did this. I think you said that you had installed W7 on an external HDD to make yourself sound clever, thinking that nobody would call you on it, and then when they did, you did a bit of hasty Googling to cobble together some kind of story. You are really trying hard to get booted off here, aren't you? Salman trout, i did no googleing, believe what you want.Topic Closed. Thomas you would do well to review the Forum Rules. And i actually do know how to run both off of an external drive...and your instructions are nowhere near what needs to be done to get it to work...Period. |
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