Hello everyone, I have a question or a few questions on a subject. As hinted above from the title, I want to know more about installing Windows 8 to SD card and then use the SD card as boot device.
I know most computers in fact almost none natively supports booting from an SD card (unless use USB SD card reader maybe), maybe you guys know of some kind workaround.
In fact I would state my purpose and motivation so you guys can help me better. I have a Windows 8 laptop (No UEFI) for which I somehow managed to damage the LCD screen of, eventually battery and some keys on keyboard as well, basically this was carried out by children in home. So normally, getting it back on track as a laptop may cost something over 100 Euros; and despite all the problems stated, the laptop is in perfect working condition, can be used through HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse as a desktop PC perhaps.
But what I did is that I installed pre-configured WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) package, FTP server on it started using it a NAS and cloud server. It is working fine right now, I have a 3TB USB 3.0 HD attached to it except its own 500GB HD, so it is serving me well. But since it remains always on HD spinning all the time, always on power input/ No battery, configured not to turn off HD or sleep or such. I have concern if will prove dangerous overtime and may damage the HD. A few days ago I found a very good offer on a 32GB SD card, so I bought it thinking that I may use it as OS/ Boot drive for my server pc stated above. it is SANDISK SDHC Speicherkarte Ultra 32 GB Class 10 UHS-I. 32GB space will not be an issue, as I will only install Windows 8, WAMP and FTP software nad perhaps a few tiny tidy utility softwares and nothing more. For storage the current internal 500GB HD and 3TB USB 3.0 HD will be used.
So, the questions
1. Is it possible to somehow boot from SD card?
2. Is it possible to use minimal initial boot operation from internal HD and shift the boot process to SD card and internal HD doesn't have to be spinning all the time?
3. Will in stated scenario, disabling the Page file will be a good idea? (system specs in attached photo)
4. Since SD cards have life expectancy based of Write Cycles, any idea how many life cycles will this one have?
5. How much (estimated) write cycles will be consumed in a normal run throughout the day or week in setup as explained above?
SD Card
System Specs
I know most computers in fact almost none natively supports booting from an SD card (unless use USB SD card reader maybe), maybe you guys know of some kind workaround.
In fact I would state my purpose and motivation so you guys can help me better. I have a Windows 8 laptop (No UEFI) for which I somehow managed to damage the LCD screen of, eventually battery and some keys on keyboard as well, basically this was carried out by children in home. So normally, getting it back on track as a laptop may cost something over 100 Euros; and despite all the problems stated, the laptop is in perfect working condition, can be used through HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse as a desktop PC perhaps.
But what I did is that I installed pre-configured WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) package, FTP server on it started using it a NAS and cloud server. It is working fine right now, I have a 3TB USB 3.0 HD attached to it except its own 500GB HD, so it is serving me well. But since it remains always on HD spinning all the time, always on power input/ No battery, configured not to turn off HD or sleep or such. I have concern if will prove dangerous overtime and may damage the HD. A few days ago I found a very good offer on a 32GB SD card, so I bought it thinking that I may use it as OS/ Boot drive for my server pc stated above. it is SANDISK SDHC Speicherkarte Ultra 32 GB Class 10 UHS-I. 32GB space will not be an issue, as I will only install Windows 8, WAMP and FTP software nad perhaps a few tiny tidy utility softwares and nothing more. For storage the current internal 500GB HD and 3TB USB 3.0 HD will be used.
So, the questions
1. Is it possible to somehow boot from SD card?
2. Is it possible to use minimal initial boot operation from internal HD and shift the boot process to SD card and internal HD doesn't have to be spinning all the time?
3. Will in stated scenario, disabling the Page file will be a good idea? (system specs in attached photo)
4. Since SD cards have life expectancy based of Write Cycles, any idea how many life cycles will this one have?
5. How much (estimated) write cycles will be consumed in a normal run throughout the day or week in setup as explained above?
SD Card
System Specs
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion g6-2300sg
- CPU
- Intel Core i3-3120M
- Memory
- 8 GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD Radeon HD 7670M (1 GB DDR3 dedicated)
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 X 768
- Hard Drives
- SANDISK SanDisk Ultra® II Solid State Drive
- Browser
- Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Panda Free Antivirus