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Help Installing Windows7 to Flash Drive

crazymonkeyzero

crazymonkeyzero

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Hi Guys,

I am currently trying to install windows 7 on a test system, and do not have an hdd yet, so I want to use my 64gb flash drive temporarily instead. I have the windows 7 dvd and when it asks to install to the drive, my flash drive does not appear as an option? Does anyone know why? I know my flash drive is working, because it is detected in my bios as a boot device, but windows setup cannot find it for some reason. The flash drive is empty and is formatted to NTFS.

Thanks for any help on the matter.
 
Unfortunately it does not allow a usb flash drive to be used as an install to source.

You can install FROM it but not TO it
 
As Dahak correctly notes; Windows can only be installed to a "fixed" drive and Disk Management marks firewire and USB flash drives as "removable. If you google you'll find methods that suggest using Lexar's utility that will flip the "removable" bit on a USB device, and then you'll find that it rarely ever works on any USB flash drive. And there are other methods that involve setting up the drive as a VM but those to rarely meet with any success. If you're bored and want something to do while you're waiting on your new drive, there's nothing stopping you from experimenting.

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Thanks for the replys guys. I think I will try to borrow a spare drive from a friend or something, just to do s quick test of my system. I was under the impression that installing windows to the flash drive would be just as easy as from it.
 
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