Static_Nexus Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 hi guys,I have a 250GB 2.5" SATA drive in a USB enclosure. I really want to make it so I can boot off the usb drive and install it from that instead of the slow DVD. can anyone help me with this? thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik.Reinink Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 (edited) Okay, this is what you need to :Open a CMD (with admin rights).Type the following:**note: this is going to erase everything off the HDD**diskpartlist disk**now look in that list for your disk, in this example I'll use disk 1**select disk 1cleancreate partition primaryselect partition 1format fs=ntfs quickactiveexitexitNow copy the content of your Windows DVD to the HDD and boot it, easy as that!Good Luck, and Take Care!Rik Edited June 18, 2008 by Rik.Reinink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Static_Nexus Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 Okay, this is what you need to :Open a CMD (with admin rights).Type the following:**note: this is going to erase everything off the HDD**diskpartlist disk**now look in that list for your disk, in this example I'll use disk 1**select disk 1cleancreate partition primaryselect partition 1format fs=ntfs quickactiveexitexitNow copy the content of your Windows DVD to the HDD and boot it, easy as that!Good Luck, and Take Care!RikHi Rik!I've already tried that and got something like this!"Invalid system diskReplace the disk, and then press any key" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oskingen Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 hi guys,I have a 250GB 2.5" SATA drive in a USB enclosure. I really want to make it so I can boot off the usb drive and install it from that instead of the slow DVD. can anyone help me with this? thanks in advance!You need to have only one primary partition and marked as active for your usb hard drive. that's it.(whatever ntfs or fat)after in your bios you have to change the boot drive to select your usb HDD once you have copied the install file in the root of the HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Static_Nexus Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 hi guys,I have a 250GB 2.5" SATA drive in a USB enclosure. I really want to make it so I can boot off the usb drive and install it from that instead of the slow DVD. can anyone help me with this? thanks in advance!You need to have only one primary partition and marked as active for your usb hard drive. that's it.(whatever ntfs or fat)after in your bios you have to change the boot drive to select your usb HDD once you have copied the install file in the root of the HDD.hhmm tried it again as per your instructions of 2 other machines, now im getting:NTLDR is missingPress Ctrl Alt Del to Restartany help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Static_Nexus Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 hi guys,I have a 250GB 2.5" SATA drive in a USB enclosure. I really want to make it so I can boot off the usb drive and install it from that instead of the slow DVD. can anyone help me with this? thanks in advance!You need to have only one primary partition and marked as active for your usb hard drive. that's it.(whatever ntfs or fat)after in your bios you have to change the boot drive to select your usb HDD once you have copied the install file in the root of the HDD.hhmm tried it again as per your instructions of 2 other machines, now im getting:NTLDR is missingPress Ctrl Alt Del to Restartany help would be greatly appreciated.turns out it was due to NTFS permissions, striped em all out and it worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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