Windows 10: Can I boot Windows from an HDD via USB? inaccessible_boot_device

I've never tried. I have installed on internal and then moved the disk to boot external many times. I think doing the opposite may just boot slower as it is loading unnecessary drivers.

Yup, I do.

For example @Bree said the other day solitaire was better on XP than Windows 7 version I was using. Rather than looking for a simple solution (download it in 5 minutes and see) I decided I had to find a XP ISO (this takes hours), install it to a VM (more hours), find the solitaire files required and copy them to my main PC and then try it. The end result was a waste of time as the XP games don't even work well with hiDPI screens - they look tiny.

Still - it is my hobby and I enjoyed the process *Smile

 

Hi,

 

Sorry to have caused you so much work *Smile

You could have saved a lot of time by just mounting the .iso (or the physical CD if you have one), look in the I386 folder and copy the compressed source files CARDS.DL_ SOL.EX_ SOL.CH_ FREECELL.EX_ FREECELL.CH_ (and any others you want) to a folder on your PC. Then open a command prompt, CD into the folder and type...

EXPAND /R *.??_

Surprisingly, Windows 10's EXPAND command still includes support for all of Microsoft's old compression methods.

That's about five minutes work (sorry, again).

PS: my laptop display is 1366x768 so they look fine.