Vista Installed on USB Hard drive I hope this method is easy to do and will help anyone looking for the vista usb solution. This avoids any ghosting.

• Install Vista On Usb Drive

Install Vista On Usb Drive

An external hard drive is a storage device that does not sit inside the computer’s chassis. Instead, it connects to the computer via a USB port.

Users can carry the external hard drive with them and access their files from any computer in the world. External hard drives can store many hundreds of gigabytes and depend on plug-and-play technology to automatically install all necessary drivers on the host computer when the device is connected to the computer, much like how USB flash drives work. How to Install Windows OS on an External Installing Windows OS on an external hard drive is very similar to installing Windows or any other operating system on an internal hard drive. 1) Backup files by copying them to an external location such as a separate hard drive, CD/DVD, or online server. 2) Before the process begins, go into the BIOS settings and ensure that the CD-ROM drive has the highest drive priority and not the disk drive or some other drive. 3) Insert the Windows OS disk into the disk tray and boot from it.

The disk provides the user with options for deleting and overwriting partitions. 4) Find the partition for the external hard drive and delete it in order to reformat the device and install Windows OS. 5) Follow the on-screen instructions as Windows OS installs itself and prepares the device for use. 6) Once Windows OS is installed on the external hard drive, copy all the files back to the external hard drive and use it whenever the device is connected to a computer. Applications Windows OS is often installed on an external hard drive in order to use the device’s storage capacity in conjunction with Windows OS’ processing capabilities. This allows the user to take the device with him/her wherever he/she goes while having a fully functional computer that can fit inside of a backpack, purse, or luggage.

Also, Windows OS may be installed on an external hard drive that connects to servers or other devices that do not have their own operating system. This is mostly seen in industrial, commercial, and computer repair applications, although anyone with an external hard drive and a copy of Windows OS can perform it.

Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to run the Vista installer from CD, and install Vista onto a 16 GiB USB flash drive? I can't find anything about it on the web, only about how to run the Vista installer FROM a flash drive. If I can get this to work you can expect a bunch of n00b questions from me; I've never really used Windows before, only Linux. Also, my computer has an RTL8187-based wifi card that works out-of-the-box on Linux; will this work out-of-the-box on Vista or should I hunt around for a Windows driver for it? You can't install Windows onto any kind of portable media, and this is by design. It's part of the anti-piracy measures.

Well, it CAN be done, but there are a three major problems with doing so. First, it's a violation of the license agreement so by doing so you essentially forfeit your right to use Windows. Second, it is extremely difficult to do. Third, even if you manage to get it running, it will be extremely fragile and only work on systems with a near identical hardware configuration to yours.

So basically, it's illegal to do so, but even if it weren't, it would be a huge PITA to set up and the end result would not be very useful. Linux is copylefted, so people are free to use as many copies on as diverse a set of hardware as they want. Apple allows this as well, because they make most of their money off hardware sales.

So even if you pirate a copy of the OS, you still need one of Apple's computers to run it on. They get you one way or the other.