Before you attach a flash drive or hard drive to your computer, consider the following options Windows 8.1 automatically offers for using the newly attached disk:
Notifications appear for the amount of time specified in PC Settings. If the notification disappears before you can select it, you can redisplay it by removing and then reinserting the drive or USB cable.
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(some websites said that you must format your HDD with FAT32 but as you know 1TB cannot be formatted using FAT32)
but i cant format my external Hard FAT32 for doing this and i dont want to use USB cool disks(flash disks) either
is there any other options to do this?
thank u all.
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Apparently it's tricky to install Windows on a USB Hard Drive
Here is an article from 2008 on it http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-install-and-boot-windows-on-an-external-usb-hard-drive.116114/
But you can get around that by using an image.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/73631-35-install-windows-external-drive
I'd add, that you can use Macrium Reflect, to create and restore images, it is freeware,
There may be a newer method , using diskpart and a VHD, which is mentioned at your link
http://dioisme.blogspot.com/2012/11/create-bootable-external-hdd-to-install.html
You can format it as FAT32, and you can always convert it to NTFS later. (I did that with XP).
Windows 7 has a convert command to do that (XP had too apparently)http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/convert-a-hard-disk-or-partition-to-ntfs-format
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This is definitely a workaround but if you can, put the external HDD into your PC or laptop so that it becomes internal, and install Windows 8 on it. Then remove the HDD and make it external again. Reboot from the external drive.
It boots just fine when I take a HDD with Windows 8 from a PC in my school and connect to my laptop. Usb trackpad for pc.
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My drives are in NTFS format.
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