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"NT 6.x fast installer: install win7 directly to usb external drive"
http://reboot.pro/topic/10126-nt-6x-fast-installer-install-win7-directly-to-usb-external-drive/
Installing Windows, the way you (I) want it, can be a PITA.
You are limited in so many ways!
Cannot install Win7 x64 from within an existing Win7 x86.
Cannot do this, cannot do that, cannot, cannot, cannot.
It is difficult to specify what drive letter you want have "Windows" named as. You can usually finagle things & make it work, but it is still a PITA. Even when things work out easily, it is still a PITA. In particular when you want to do something outside the norm (like always, for me), it is a PITA.
As I was trying to work my way through getting things as I want, I was running into problem after problem after problem. Could I work around the issues? In the end, suppose so. But for as far as I wanted to take it, I wasn't really getting anywhere.
What I would have wanted was to first install XP, perhaps into C:, better if it went into P:. And then install Win7 x64 into E:.
Now I might have been able to get that to work, but on the particular system I was ending up with, I could not get XP running in AHCI mode - easily, even relatively easily, without integrating the AHCI drivers into the the Windows install. (Other thread talks about the system where AHCI in XP worked without doing anything. Would have been nice. Wasn't working out.)
Next thought is to install Win7 x32, into C: even, & then install Win7 x64 from within that into the particular partition I wanted it to go (E: ). That would be easy, even if it meant two installs. And I could always come back after the fact & blow away the x32 if I wanted with no adverse affects. (Having an x86 OS affords you avenues that you might not have with an x64 system.)
So I install x32, into C: & all was well. But then when I went to install x64 from within x32, into E:, I ran into one of those "cannot's". Windows won't allow you to do that. (Perhaps there are reasons for not being allowed, but who cares, that is where I was, & that is what I wanted to do.)
Now I knew that I could start out again, this time installing x64, into C:, then from within x64, I could install x64 again, into my desired location (E: ) & that would work.
But as I already had x86 installed, figured I might explore my options.
So I came across this "NT 6.x fast installer". It allows you options not normally afforded. It allowed me to install x64, from within x86, into the partition I wanted. And it seems to have worked, so all is good.
(The "program" consists of your "install.wim", essentially Windows, from your CD, a few MS utilities, which you might already, or which you might have to obtain from the MS Windows AIK, & a batch file that the fellow put together. With that, you can install Windows onto a HDD, be it internal, or an external "HDD" (not Flash) drive. Only a few prompts to answer, & I wasn't exactly clear all the way through, but I got it & things worked out as I wanted. Thank you MS.) --------------------------------------
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