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Hello, i recently built my pc and the only parts missing are HDD and GPU! Since itll be a while till i get my HDD i wanted to ask if its possible to use one of those External Harddrive things, you know they have like 20mb/s speed but theyre mostly used for pictures n stufd! Ive got a 500GB one and i was wondering if i can install windows on it and play a few games.

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2 minutes ago, Flamu said:

Hello, i recently built my pc and the only parts missing are HDD and GPU! Since itll be a while till i get my HDD i wanted to ask if its possible to use one of those External Harddrive things, you know they have like 20mb/s speed but theyre mostly used for pictures n stufd! Ive got a 500GB one and i was wondering if i can install windows on it and play a few games.

You can do that, no problem. Just make sure your EHDD is powered on when you boot :) 

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8 minutes ago, Natsoup said:

You can do that, no problem. Just make sure your EHDD is powered on when you boot :) 

Hehe, im kind of a newbie but thanks... I know i might be retarded but would a 32GB usb work? Im quite positive that 32gB is enough for Windows and A internet browser. I couldnt find the external drive. 

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3 minutes ago, Flamu said:

Hehe, im kind of a newbie but thanks... I know i might be retarded but would a 32GB usb work? Im quite positive that 32gB is enough for Windows and A internet browser. I couldnt find the external drive. 

You may want to install Linux than, its smaller and easier to install. 

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2 hours ago, Natsoup said:

You can do that, no problem. Just make sure your EHDD is powered on when you boot :) 

Im kinda having problems. When I connect the boot usb, ans get toa part where to choose a device the other usb doesnt appear there, and windows says fhat its missing zome device drivers of something, any idea how to fix?

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6 minutes ago, Flamu said:

Im kinda having problems. When I connect the boot usb, ans get toa part where to choose a device the other usb doesnt appear there, and windows says fhat its missing zome device drivers of something, any idea how to fix?

Which ones?

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5 minutes ago, Flamu said:

It doesnt particularly mean what drivers, just device drivers...I googled it and all I got was how to update thwm on windows 10

It sounds like you have a Windows installer instead of a drive with Windows installed on it. Download a Windows 1 ISO and use the free program WinToUSB to install Windows onto the USB drive. Then boot from it and you're set. 

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4 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

It sounds like you have a Windows installer instead of a drive with Windows installed on it. Download a Windows 1 ISO and use the free program WinToUSB to install Windows onto the USB drive. Then boot from it and you're set. 

I was just doing that. Thank you for your help;) much apreaciated. I was following a pc building guide on yt, but i suppose it was diffrent

 

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2 minutes ago, Flamu said:

I was just doing that. Thank you for your help;) much apreaciated. I was following a pc building guide on yt, but i suppose it was diffrent

 

What you saw was probably made to show how to make a USB installed with which you could install Windows onto a hard drive or SSD. 

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What you saw was probably made to show how to make a USB installed with which you could install Windows onto a hard drive or SSD. 

 

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

What you saw was probably made to show how to make a USB installed with which you could install Windows onto a hard drive or SSD. 

 As expected, fixing one problem leads to another.... im following a guide on how to use WinToUSB but when i pick out the Windows10 Pro or any other edition it says that free/trial version doesnt support windows enterprise/servers....

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 As expected, fixing one problem leads to another.... im following a guide on how to use WinToUSB but when i pick out the Windows10 Pro or any other edition it says that free/trial version doesnt support windows enterprise/servers....

Shiiit

That usually appears if you're running WinToUSB on a server OS, such as what it does when I run it on my server (Windows Server 2012 R2). 

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7 minutes ago, Flamu said:

Oh... well is there any other way? would it change if i tried windows 7? or Windows 8.1?

What OS is the program running on that you're using to make the USB drive?

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Windows 8.1

Hmm.  It should work. What Windows ISO  are you using?

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Older File Server: Yet to be named

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