Can Windows 7 boot from an external USB or FireWire drive?
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Mar 15, 202636088 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Other operating systems can boot from external USB or FireWire drives, but Windows has, to my knowledge, never had this ability, at least not officially out of the box. How is it with Windows 7? Can it be installed to and booted from an external drive?
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I have spent a few days looking around for a solution to this and also made an attempt to install Windows 7 on an external drive myself. Long story short, the answer can be rounded down to "No, it is not possible to run Windows 7 from an external US…
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