external hard drive boot ?

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    steves cleenz

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    i have an external hard drive with windows 7 setup on it, is it possible to boot from this as i have tried and cant get it to boot, changed the bios, pressed the f12 key and still no joy, am i doing something wrong, any help would be apreciated :)

    im running Linux by the way and a acer aspire one with the 120 gig HD
     
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    Is the problem that your external device does not appear in the boot list when you press F12, or that when you select this device from the F12 menu nothing happens?

    Also, how did you install Win 7 on the external drive? Was it installed as an internal IDE or SATA drive in another computer when the Win 7 installation was performed?
     
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    on boot up the aspire sees the external HD but will not boot from it, all i have done is copy the whole of the windows setup disc to the HD, so i am trying to use it as a DVD in theory if you know what i mean
     
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    That won't work. You either need to burn the Win 7 installation image as a proper DVD and boot from that (using an external DVD drive) or run the installer executable (setup.exe?) from an existing version of Windows.
     
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