Hi all,
I have an HP Elitebook 9470m for work with Windows 7 pro installed. I would like to be able to boot a personal copy of windows 8 from my external usb 3.0 drive (western digital elements)
so i followed this tutorial:
How to Run a Portable Version of Windows from a USB Drive
and got windows 8 on my drive ok. Issue is im having really problems getting the option to boot from the drive to come up in boot options. Basically only the notebook hard drive and PXE are an option UNLESS i go into BIOS and mess about with changing boot settings to and from legacy to UEFI (with / without CSM) eventually on turning on and off it will give me the option to boot to my drive but its really hit and miss. when i get the option all boots into win8 no problem.
any ideas to get this to work better? i dont really know the settings im changing and i know messing about too much in BIOs is bad!
my external drive has 2 partitions, 1 for win8 and 1 for my other files both are NTFS. the laptop came with an internal mSATA which is all formatted to NTFS even system reserved. I tried creating a partition of FAT32 for boot and that hasn't helped. same behaviour.
any help or pointers would be really much appreciated!
thanks
Hawke84
I have an HP Elitebook 9470m for work with Windows 7 pro installed. I would like to be able to boot a personal copy of windows 8 from my external usb 3.0 drive (western digital elements)
so i followed this tutorial:
How to Run a Portable Version of Windows from a USB Drive
and got windows 8 on my drive ok. Issue is im having really problems getting the option to boot from the drive to come up in boot options. Basically only the notebook hard drive and PXE are an option UNLESS i go into BIOS and mess about with changing boot settings to and from legacy to UEFI (with / without CSM) eventually on turning on and off it will give me the option to boot to my drive but its really hit and miss. when i get the option all boots into win8 no problem.
any ideas to get this to work better? i dont really know the settings im changing and i know messing about too much in BIOs is bad!
my external drive has 2 partitions, 1 for win8 and 1 for my other files both are NTFS. the laptop came with an internal mSATA which is all formatted to NTFS even system reserved. I tried creating a partition of FAT32 for boot and that hasn't helped. same behaviour.
any help or pointers would be really much appreciated!
thanks
Hawke84
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