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If I correctly understand your question, Felix, you want to be able to boot & run win7 on an external drive. #PARAGON HARD DISK MANAGER CONVERT DYNAMIC TO BASIC INSTALL#It is possible OTOH to convert a copy of your running Windows install to a VM, or install Windows fresh to a VM, then using Portable-VirtualBox run that VM after booting to BartPE, LiveXP, WinPE etc., so they can assist in that way. #PARAGON HARD DISK MANAGER CONVERT DYNAMIC TO BASIC FULL VERSION#are alternatives to full version Windows, so they wouldn't be able to offer any assist - they just run on their own. #15: "Maybe stuff like BartPE might help to make the drive bootable?"īartPE, or LiveXP or WinPE etc. ![]() As for modding win7 to boot & work from a USB device, you can find the info, tools etc. If the drive's connected via eSATA rather than USB, you can add win7 fresh or copy/clone your existing win7 drive - it should work like any other installed hard drive, though you'll have to tell the PC/laptop to look there 1st for the boot info, normally either in the bios or using a boot device menu that can be called up using a hot key or hot key combo on some systems when the system's 1st starting. If that's correct, then either 1) the external drive can't be connected via USB, or 2) Windows on the external drive has to be modded to work via USB. #12: "Do you know if this will create a HDD bootable backup, or of another program that will? I have been trying to back-up my system to an external hard drive that is bootable with win 7. Or even Paragon Drive Copy 11 Compact edition given away here some time ago can convert Dynamic MBR and Dynamic or Basic GPT to Basic MBR subject to Basic MBR volume restrictions of course! Not having a spare dynamic volume to hand I cannot currently test their claims but I am inclined to believe them as they do produce their own low level data handling engines themselves and don't just strap on a GUI to the underlying OS. Compressed NTFS files are also supported." #PARAGON HARD DISK MANAGER CONVERT DYNAMIC TO BASIC PROFESSIONAL#something like Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 Professional boasts " Full read/write access to NTFS (Basic and all five types of Dynamic Disks) under Windows 95/98/ME, Linux and PTS DOS. #PARAGON HARD DISK MANAGER CONVERT DYNAMIC TO BASIC PRO#It should be of limited value (read that as "no value") in migrating dynamic volumes from a non-booting obsoleted windows 2000 pro or XP Pro system to say a Windows Vista/7/8 Home edition ON the working Home edition system as the Home edition systems are not suported or more that the home edition systems do not provide the underlying tools that this likely needs to mount and do the grunt work. Also since this only supports the dydnamic disk configurations supported by the underlying operating system editions I suspect that this does not do much more than control the pre-existing OS functionality in a more user atractive GUI. There apears to be no mention of support for Windows Home Server. Or bring any of the existing Pro and above suported RAID features to Home edition desktop packages. Or to be abe to do the previously impossible like adding drives to an existing RAID 5 Array and resizing it. I don't see this as increasing the capability of the operating systems at all, it does not ADD previously unsuported features like RAID 5 support to desktop editions of suported operating systems, you still only get that on server class operating systems. And that none of the editions are licensed for technician use on client machines, but then again would be a pretty lightweight technicion to have to use pretty gui based dynamic disk managment front end over the built in tools. I notice that most of these functions can be performed if you drill down to the correct built in module in windows especially in later versions of Pro and up windows. ![]() but on the last line flagged as New! it lists "Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8" as supported across all edition and an exra tick on the end where no edition column exists! oops! In section Supported Operating System, the Pro edition excludes support for server based operating systems from 2000 to 2012 R2. I see strange and conflicting information in the chart under the Edition Comparison chart at URL ![]()
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