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  • November 29, 2022 at 11:56 pm #4010705

    Windows 7/Vista – USBHard drive or Network boot

    by melebisnuessrfwe · about 2 years ago

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    Is there any way to boot Windows Vista/7 from a USB Hard Drive? If not, what about network boot.

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    • November 30, 2022 at 1:44 am #4010719
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      That was the Windows To Go version.

      by rproffitt · about 2 years ago

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      Wasn’t free either. There were some articles about HACKING up Windows to run from USB but I’ll stop here as that’s on the web and also, unsupported, unsupportable.

    • December 12, 2022 at 9:00 am #4012998

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      by Johnharper2020 · about 1 year, 12 months ago

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      Connect the USB to the pc (if you have already copied the files and made it bootable), Open the folder containing the installation files.
      Rename the file ‘Boot.mgr’ to ‘ntldr’ ,(without the ‘ ) and it will work!
      *Imp*And please boot from the USB first, not the harddisk. Most of the PC support pressing the ‘F12’ or ‘Del’ button

      This will help you,
      John

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