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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: jinxhacker on February 05, 2010, 05:10:12 PM
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So I have a Seagate 1tb external hard drive and it has a partition that I made into a boot-able dvd drive thru cmd but I dont know how to turn it back.
Also Ive tried googleing a way to boot and install a os from a external hard drive so anyone of these would be helpful. I have a computer that has no dvd drive and Im trying to be cheap and not have to buy one.
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Hello.
Welcome to the computer Hope for foreign. Here you will find a friendly community that will answer your questions for you without commercial interest.
External drives are a great idea for backup. That is how they should be used. If you need another bootable device, it would be a good idea to try a bootable USB flash drive instead of using your external hard drive.
Of course, you can backup your operating system to the external drive. And then you would need to have a suitable boot DVD that would put up a recovery program that would read from your external hard drive and restore your system. But didn't your Seagate external drive come with software that does an?
As a general rule, the Microsoft operating system is not licensed for use on removable media. However, Microsoft does allow a special boot CD called a PE disc. Would you like to know more about that?
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yes I would and thank you.
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Good! Here a recent topic on this subject. I have been wanting to do this myself, just never got around to it. The discussion is has many authors and questions.
Topic: How to create a Windows PE boot disc
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?topic=87312.0