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Can win7 be installed on and booted from an eSATA drive?

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Mar 15, 202610425 views
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I'm the proud owner of a Lenovo W520 which is equipped with an eSATA (eSATAp actually) port. However I'd like to attach an external eSATA drive to it, install Win7 on this external drive and boot from it. On the internet there are on one hand lots of resources stating that it's not possible to inst…

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Fix for: Can win7 be installed on and booted from an eSATA drive?

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As long as the bios supports it there shouldn't be any particular issues. The boot sequence basically starts with the bios recognizing a master drive with an master boot record (MBR) where windows is stored and then calling the windows bootloader. S…

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