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Francis J E Mudrak
Note: I am not looking for how to install Windows from a flash drive, I want to know if you can install it onto one.
Note 2: I wasn't sure if I should put this in the topic Install, upgrade, & activate or in Devices & drivers.
Hi.
It's me again with that old laptop. My hard drive's been making this strange cricket noise for over a year now, and I'm worried that it will fail soon. The drive is still fully functional, save for it not being recognised at boot time, which I can easily mitigate. It is a Toshiba MK6475GSX (I'm not sure) HDD at 5,400 rpm and 640 GB decimal. Is there a way I can, using either a Microsoft or a third-party program, clone the hard drive to a USB and boot from it? I don't really care if it's ridiculously slow, as the laptop only has USB 2.0 ports. I don't want to use the flash drive with different PCs, and I don't want to pirate Windows or anything. This is only a stopgap solution until I replace the drive.
I tried cloning the drive to a 64GB SanDisk flash drive using AOMEI Backupper. It's really slow, but that's fine by me. The problem is that it boots fine, but after the screen that says © Microsoft Corporation with a green bar, Windows crashes with an error code of 0x7b, INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Is there any way I can get it to at least show me the desktop?
Thanks in advance.
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Note 2: I wasn't sure if I should put this in the topic Install, upgrade, & activate or in Devices & drivers.
Hi.
It's me again with that old laptop. My hard drive's been making this strange cricket noise for over a year now, and I'm worried that it will fail soon. The drive is still fully functional, save for it not being recognised at boot time, which I can easily mitigate. It is a Toshiba MK6475GSX (I'm not sure) HDD at 5,400 rpm and 640 GB decimal. Is there a way I can, using either a Microsoft or a third-party program, clone the hard drive to a USB and boot from it? I don't really care if it's ridiculously slow, as the laptop only has USB 2.0 ports. I don't want to use the flash drive with different PCs, and I don't want to pirate Windows or anything. This is only a stopgap solution until I replace the drive.
I tried cloning the drive to a 64GB SanDisk flash drive using AOMEI Backupper. It's really slow, but that's fine by me. The problem is that it boots fine, but after the screen that says © Microsoft Corporation with a green bar, Windows crashes with an error code of 0x7b, INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Is there any way I can get it to at least show me the desktop?
Thanks in advance.
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