How do you install Windows 7 from an external hard drive?
I don't have a DVD ROM drive, so I copied my Windows 7 DVD (which is bootable) onto an external hard drive from another PC. However after booting with the external hard drive nothing happens!
What should I do? My external hard drive is formatted as FAT32 - is this important?
I was following these instructions.
Answer
Try following these instructions at Microsoft Technet. They are a bit old and intended for USB keys but should still apply.
When creating a bootable disk (of any sort), the computer reads from a portion of the disk that is not visible like standard files, thus just copying files doesn't work. See Wikipedia for more information.
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