Windows 10: can you not boot Windows installation from hard drive?

Discus and support can you not boot Windows installation from hard drive? in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; If I have a laptop with free dos and my USB ports are broken is there any way that I can boot the installation directly from hard drive? Can I trick my... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Budafuko420, Dec 24, 2020.

  1. BUDAFUKO420
    Budafuko420 Win User

    can you not boot Windows installation from hard drive?


    If I have a laptop with free dos and my USB ports are broken is there any way that I can boot the installation directly from hard drive? Can I trick my computer into thinking the hard drive is a USB or something similar to that? Or do I have to resolder my USB? too new to have dvd drive

    :)
     
    Budafuko420, Dec 24, 2020
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  2. LITTLE CAT
    little cat Win User
    little cat, Dec 24, 2020
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  3. EROCKER
    erocker Win User
    Installing windows from usb hard drive

    I know you can do that, but what about having different windows installers on each partition? I think that's what the OP needs.
     
    erocker, Dec 24, 2020
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  4. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User

    can you not boot Windows installation from hard drive?

    Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

    Please move if this is in the wrong place.

    I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

    If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

    My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
    I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.
     
    speedy11131, Dec 24, 2020
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