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how to make external hard drive bootable

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Mar 15, 202698723 views
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Possible Duplicate: How do you create a bootable partition on a USB drive? I have a 250G external hdd, I would like to make it bootable to install Ubuntu along side win7, but how can I make my hdd a bootable thing. What I did is to use diskpart utility and copy Ubuntu iso files into hdd, and change…

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If you first set the partition to active, then copy the ISO to the disk (assuming you mean extracting the files), this will only boot in to the Ubuntu Live/Installer environment (If they haven't changed it). You will also need to choose the boot dev…

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