Comments on: Tip: make your PDC 2008 (or any) USB hard drive a bootable Windows 7 install disk

By: KifArt

KifArt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:22:39 +0000

Dumping the files on any external hard disk without a boot sector (NTFS or FAT32) and marking the partition as active should do the trick.

If it doesn’t boot, add the boot sector from /boot:

bootsect /nt60 X: where X is the volume letter of your usb hdd.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:40:33 +0000

Formatting Hard-Drive in NTFS also works !

By: krichivskoy

krichivskoy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:27:11 +0000

will this mean that my 7 OS is in my External Hard Drive and i can boot my PC with my External as primary?
what does it mean when you partition a 10 G Volume? is it for the 7 OS or it’s just for the ISO?

thanks

By: Ludvig

Ludvig — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:08:13 +0000

There is no such option as “shrink volume” on an XP so it wont work unless i have Vista?

By: steve

steve — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:28:58 +0000

hey guys

I can’t shrink the volume of my wd portable hard drive – the option isnt avaialble. and if i go ahead and format i will those the lot right? i was well chiffed when i found this as all i want to do is boot from my wd portable hard drive eeeeek

hope someone can help!

cheers

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By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:25:29 +0000

After no success with the built in partitioner (Win7), I used a 3rd party option (ESEAUS Partition Manager) to get the job done. For the NTLDR is missing error, you need to run bootsect from the win7 DVD (in the /boot dir) to get it working. Here’s the details: http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345. This really came in handy, cause my new machine hasn’t got a DVD drive.

By: Greenie

Greenie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:29:41 +0000

Apologies for the triple post.

I have followed this guide step by step completely, missed nothing. I even tried formating a partition using windows vista. But it still won’t boot from my USB HDD. Says NTLDR is missing, which is what it says when I forget to connect my hard drive with windows on it sometimes.

Halp?

By: Greenie

Greenie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:10:29 +0000

FYI, Paul, you have to shrink volume using vista. XP doesn’t have that option Same with the ’simple drive’ option. I had to create a extended partition, and then create a logical drive to format it. Not sure if it will work, but worth a shot.