Windows 10: Windows 11 BSOD afer plugging in external HDD with allegedly broken Win 7

Hi,a friend of mine came up to me saying that his old win 7 pc is only booting in safe mode.Unfortunatly after i received the pc it would not even boot in safe mode.I connected the HDD via an Adapter to my own Win 11 pc as an external HDD.My stystem recognized the HDD just fine and i was able to open some data. But after some seconds the system crashed BSOD.The MS Stopcode: System_Thread_expection_not_handledReason: nfts.sysHoping for a solution so i can save his data.Thanks in advanceFelix*** moved from german to english Community ***

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How to install and run windows 7 on external HDD

I have an external HDD. I'm setting it to rescue or boot windows on this. I setup win 10 and using grub4dos, boot and using normally. But when i install win 7, it alway bsod error. I'm trying using both setup win7 by app setup wintohdd but not ok. I plug
ext hdd to laptop then setup and boot ok but when i re-plug hdd. to box, windows 7 not boot and show bsod. although i using wintohdd app to setup win 10, it can boot and run normally. How to fix in this this case?

 

External HDDs

Hi i had a seagate freeagent (external) which stopped working so i bought another enclosure and the hdd kept disconnecting/reconnecting in windows 8.1, so i boht another enclosure and also the same thing. Iv tried a different hdd and all hdds work perfectly when plugged directly into sata ports on the board, are there any other steps i can try or do you think iv just been unlucky with enclosures?

 

Accidentally Converted External Hard Drive to "ESD-USB"

I can help you:

1. Press Windows Key+R

2. Type 'cmd'

3. type 'diskpart'

4. type 'list disk'

5. find your external HDD in the list

6. type 'select disk (what ever the disk number is for the external HDD)

7. type clean

8. open Disk Management

9. right click the external HDD

10. click 'New Partition'

11. Complete the steps