#CREATE BOOTABLE USB WINDOWS 7 PARTITION HOW TO#
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#CREATE BOOTABLE USB WINDOWS 7 PARTITION INSTALL#

You should make a bootable Macrium restore Usb stick (you can do this very easily with Macrium) then if the worst happens and Windows won't work you boot up with that and restore the Image, takes around 15 minutes.ДЄlso if the Windows drive fails you can install a new drive and restore the image onto that. Also if Windows has problems you can restore the Image in a few minutes and everything will be as it was when you made the image, all programs and data is restored along with Windows. You can use the image file as a backup, it can be mounted with a drive letter and you can copy any folder or file from it.

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You could make an Image of the OS drive, using Macrium Reflect free (or another Imaging program), and save that onto the 6TB drive. If you don't do that Windows may put the System Reserved partition onto a different drive which can be really awkward later if you don't know it did that. If you decide to install to the GPT drive I would physically disconnect all other drives first, that ensures all the Windows files go onto that drive.

Thanks so much for all your input, guys! (and gals!) i do not have that in Win 7.ДЄt this point, should i just make the 6T hdd an MBR with smaller partitions, and forget GPT? and i have no idea if it's on there the mbr boot and windows partitions, then changing to gpt afterwards sounds quick and easy. shows, i guess, the hidden/reserved sectors for the mbr and gpt info. The ACTIVE command can only be used on fixed MBR disks.

The selected disk is not a fixed MBR disk. Second, i used the diskpart steps to try to make the 200G partition bootable, or an 'active' drive. i think maybe ntfs is a different level than gpt, and that a gpt disk can have ntfses? for the file type, 'gpt' or 'uefi' were not options, so i just used NTFS. i created two primary partitions, of 200G and 5000G. I then used diskmgmt to partition the rest of the unallocated space.

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this has helped me understand greatly.ДЇirst, the trial of the EaseUS app showed that my second hard drive was GPT, and it had 128m of reserved space that diskmgmt did not show me. THANK YOU, everyone! i have been researching this for weeks, and have still been SO confused. Type 'exit,' followed by the 'Return' key, to exit Diskpart. Press the 'Enter' key.Д®nter 'active' and press the 'Return' key to instruct Diskpart to mark that partition as an active, bootable partition.

Type 'select partition X', replacing 'X' with the number of the partition you want to select. Note the number assigned to the partition you want to make bootable. Press the 'Enter' key.Д®nter 'list partition' and press the 'Return' key. Type 'select disk X', replacing 'X' with the number assigned to the relevant drive. You can find that number in the first column. Note the number assigned to the drive which contains the partition you wish to make bootable. While Diskpart is active, the traditional command-line prompt will be replaced by a Diskpart prompt, indicating that any command you enter will be processed by that application.Д®nter 'list disk' and press the 'Return' key. In command prompt, type 'diskpart' and press the 'Return' key. To make a partition bootable in Command Prompt: MBR does have a maximum of 2TB per partition. Maybe i am not understanding the nuances of what needs to go on.

Here's a diagram of what i'm trying to do:ДЎ: make Sys partition for the disk to be bootable.Дў: clone/copy the Windows partition over.ДЈ: leave the rest as one giant gpt chunk. i JUST want the bootable partition made, then to clone my old windows partition to the next section of the drive. can i not just sysdisk it? all the tutorials i'm finding online are talking about making a usb stick of a windows 7 install, and installing from that.

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i'm trying to find out how to make it bootable. Now i have the 6T back to being a GPT drive, all in one piece. i tried using AOEMEI Backer Upper clone tool, but that changed the GPT to an MBR and screwed up the unused portion of the hard drive. I tried using the Disk Management thing to no avail. and i'm TRYING to format it and get it to have a copy of my boot and windows partitions from my old hard drive.

Create bootable usb windows 7 partition