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Installing Windows 7 from a USB Hard Drive

I have a portable HD and i want to install windows 7 from it as i have no USB or cd to work with. Is this do-able?

I have so far made a seperate partition on the drive and made it bootable but it doesn't seem to get recognized when i boot it up. Any ideas?

Also what would the boot option be under the boot section? USB - HDD right?

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My bios should support it as i have previously installed windows 7 from a usb flash drive, my current problem is that no matter what i option i choose it simply skips and loads the current OS from the hard drive. I have made the device bootable and such but no luck. (Yes i have already makred the partition as active)."

P.S. Can you not close this as it is NOT an exact duplicate... that other question is for a usb FLASH drive not a HD.

fixer1234
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Sam
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I would recommend www.pendrivelinux.com. As long as you have an .iso file of your OS (you can create one as well with utilities found on the internet), you can make a bootable USB device with this software that has your installation media on it for Windows 7.

Paperlantern
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