Hello, I am attempting to install Windows 7 to a external 1TB hard drive. I am following instruction at I have installed the windows automated install (WAIK), and copied the Windows 7 CD to a folder on the hard drive as instructed. I found and placed the Bcdboot.exe, Bootsect.exe and Imagex.exe files as instructed. It next has an instruction to run 'Installer.cmd' which I assume it's supposed to be located in the Windows 7 CD folder. I cannot find 'Installer.cmd', and searched the entire drive. Does anyone know of where this file or proper file can be found? I have a problem with the installer. It says it will overwrite boot files on C drive! I followed the instructions verbatim. I had the installer locate the Windows Files/Sources/install.wim file OK. Then pressed enter to continue. I selected the image number. Then I put in the External drive letter for OS partion in which mine is 'E'. Next screen I put the drive letter of the Active primary partition which is 'C' in my case (Drive C of the laptop, of which I am also running the installer from and contains the Windows files folder). How to install windows 10 on external ssd how to install windows 10 mac book pro - mac pro - imac How to Install Windows 10 on External Hard Drive install windows 10 on external hard drive. Oct 19, 2018 - Jeremiah's recipe for installing Windows 10 on a external USB hard drive. This will partition your hard drive and take away space from OSX,. Then I get a warning: 'Target drive letter is the same as this systems Windows drive letter! This will overwrite boot files on your C: drive!' The external drive is partitioned and has 1st active. I will try this again to see if I get the same thing. Yes, that is ok - the warning tells you what you are doing. They are win7 bootfiles that will be replacing your existing win7 bootfiles - so no problem. If you were applying an earlier version - say Vista to the external HD - then you wouldn't want to to do it. ( I that case you would just install them to a partition on the usb drive ) It is fine - go ahead and let it overwrite your existing bootfiles - because they are both windows 7 - all it does is add a boot menu entry so you can boot your usb drive by selecting from the boot menu. ![]() You need to know which your Active partition is. If you look in disk management - one of them will say Active on it. It might be a small 100mb partition with no drive letter. If that is the case - then rt click the 100mb partition and give it letter S. Then you know your Active partition is S. I have done this hundreds of times. I think I'm almost there just being cautious. True, it cannot do everything that the latest versions of MSO can do, but it's a darned site more useful than ANY of the other libre versions. Wps office app for osx. If you're familiar or more comfortable with MSO, then WPS Office is THE best alternative, and if you prefer the 'classic' look rather than the 'ribbon' toolbar, then that is easy to change. And, oh yes, WPS Office is FAST. Yet, if you hunger for the best video format for iMovie, tell you the truth, I'm afraid that there is no exactly the best video format for this Apple video editor software, since to great extent it counts on the versions of your macOS and iMovie. Supposed you have installed iMovie'08 on Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5, you can practically only upload. IMovie is a Mac OS X or iOS based video editing software application created by Apple Inc. IMovie imports video footage to the Mac using either the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras or the computer’s USB port. It can also import video and photo files from a hard drive. IMovie supports multiple video formats. Imovie for mac tutorial. IMovie is friendly with.mp4,.mov,.m4v etc video formats. Here this article about iMovie supported video formats may help you. Note: If your files are not in the Mac best video audio formats list, you can resort to a professional video converter for Mac to convert the video to Macbook Air/Pro friendly MP4, MOV, H264, HEVC formats first. External is 200MB active as drive E. I'm up to ready to start, however -. Partition to install to 'E', Letter of Active is 'E', installing to USB 'Yes' But it says 'OS will assign itself drive C', and asks if I want to assign a different letter. ENTER YOUR CHOICE FOR OS DRIVE LETTER:. I guess I enter 'C'?? And you are saying it's going to mess with laptops boot files and have a menu every time I boot up? That's not OK on this laptop. I was under the opinion that when done with this, that I would select F12 at boot up to manually select the USB drive to boot off of. It will be a normal boot menu entry. If you want to select usb drive via F12 or whatever your oem key is - then you need to put the boot files on an Active partition on the USB connected drive instead. So from your above post, select E as the Active partition. That will work - but you will need to boot it that way as the installation completes - 3 times it tries to reboot as it completes installation - fine, you will just have to select it each of those 3 times. After that - then just select it via F12 when you want to boot into it. [You can select any drive letter from c to x. It's only for geeks - just press enter and it will default to c.] It doesn't 'mess with the boot files' - you normally add an extra entry to the bcd store for each os you want select. If you would rather select it via a key - that's fine too. Piece of cake to add and remove entries - that is what bcd is made for. I often have up to 40 entries on my boot menu. ![]() Similar help and support threads Thread Forum I am trying to install windows 7 on an usb attached external hard drive, into a secondary partition. I've tryed installing from an ISO file mounted as a virtual drive, by extracting the files and running the setup file and by booting from the ISO file of a DVD/DR disc. I choose custom install. Installation & Setup How can I install Windows 7 on my external hard drive using Bootcamp on my Mac? Do not say it would be slow. I installed Mac OS X on it and it works just as fast as on my internal drive and there are no problems at all. Installation & Setup Hello everyone, I am new to the forums and not sure where the best place to ask this question is, any help would be appreciated, even if you refer me to somewhere else. I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 (2.5 years old). All my data is backed up so I have no concerns about recoverying data.
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