SomeGuy
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Some glimmers of partial sucess, and another problem...
I was finally able to create a bootable Win8.1 external USB drive. (I had to use some non-AOMEI tools and techniques to do it, a long story that I will comment on later)<…
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I have been playing around with setting up external USB drives, and have installed windows several times on fresh drives. It may have something to do with the Comodo configuration, I have installed Partition Assistant and Backupper in previous a…
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Didn't happen for me on a different machine either, it may depend on how you have comodo set up.
The machine that it tripped on had block malware for all applications set "on".
I downloaded it from the link on this site t…
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Unfortunatly this thread has devolved into endless pontification about what won't work. Let's start from the beginning, what will work?
The original quesiton;
I recently purchased a new laptop with Win…
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@ Helpdesk
The BIOS does support booting to USB. I can boot the AOMEI PE from a USB flash drive, and I have booted a Win8.1 "win to go" on a USB HDD created with another developer's software.
The pro…
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It appears that that default partition is created when "convert gpt" is issued.
I tried what you suggested, but when booted from t…
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Tried this;
Opened diskpart and performed these operations;
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary size=650
format quick fs=ntfs label="WinRE"
assign letter="T"
create partition efi size=260
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(BTW, thanks for the replies!)
OK, I have been back at it again.
Apparently "Migrate OS to SSD" will not work with a GPT drive in"standard edition".
From a command prompt I set up the small boot par…
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Tried a backup and restore;
Previously I had used AOMEI Backupper to make a copy of theinternal HDD.
I then ran a restore to the external USB disk.
On this attempt I selected “Disk” “Disk0”. (on previous attempts, I tr…
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OK, I re-did my attempt with AOMEI Partition Assistant - Disk Copy
I have both external USB disks connected, and have booted from my "unactivated" copy of windows on one of the external USB drives, not the internal drive that I am t…
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I have been trying this with two traditional mechanical spinning disk external drive assemblies with USB interfaces. One is a 60G and the other a 75G.
I have tried numerous things over the past couple of weeks, and honesty I have…