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Install windows 7 on external hard drive
Install windows 7 on external hard drive









Step 9: Finally, the installer will ask you the drive letter that you have entered to install Windows 7 is a USB hard drive or not. You can find the active partition by opening the Windows Disk Management tool (type diskmgmt.msc in Start menu search area and hit enter to launch it). Step 8: Now, type in the drive letter of your ACTIVE partition and hit Enter key. Enter the drive letter (ex: L) and press Enter key. Step 7: The next step is to enter your External drive’s drive letter. For example, type “5” (without quote) and hit Enter key to select Ultimate edition. You can select the edition by entering the index number shown on the screen. Step 6: Now, you need to select the Windows 7 edition that you want to install on external hard drive. The Install.wim file can be found under Sources folder (Windows Files/ Sources/ install.wim). Step 5: Press Enter key to browse to the install.wim file present in the Windows Files folder. In the first screen, you will be asked to press Enter to continue. Step 4: The next step is to run the Installer.cmd file as Administrator (Right-click on installer.cmd and select run as administrator). Step 3: Copy all the contents of the Windows 7 installation DVD to the Windows Files folder.

install windows 7 on external hard drive

Once you have these three files, copy them to WAIK Files folder that you have created in the above step. After installing WAIK, simply search for these files in the Windows installation drive to get them. These files can only be obtained by installing Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 on your Windows PC.

install windows 7 on external hard drive

Before starting the actual installation procedure, you need to have three files: Bcdboot.exe, Bootsect.exe, and Imgex.exe. Step 2: Download the ZIP file from here and extract the contents to the WAIK Files folder. Create two folders named Windows Files and WAIK Files on your desktop or any other drive which has a minimum of 5 GB free space.

install windows 7 on external hard drive

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Install windows 7 on external hard drive