Is it possible to partition a portable hard drive and install an os on one of its partition? I tried to partition my portable harddrive and it worked, but when i tried to install an OS like Win 7, it said it cant be installed cause it only support NTFS... so i partition it again the primary was a NTFS and the extended one was a FAT32... Also, is it possible to partition my netbooks internal harddrive without deleting any files on it? cause it only has a C: drive and i would like to have an extra one on it. So, any help are mostly welcome.
yes its possible to partition an external and theoretically its possible to install an OS on it. Its an incredibly bad idea to do so though. its possible to resize and create extra partitions without data loss (assuming the disk isn't full), but you do lose space by doing it (the more partitions you have the more space you lose).
Ok, I have partitioned my portable hard drive into 2, one was NTFS and the other was a FAT32, when i tried to install the OS, it said it cannot install on the 1st and 2nd partition because it does not support formats that are not in NTFS... so my question is, my first partition was a NTFS, so, whats the deal? I know its a bad idea to install a OS on a harddrive, i'm just trying it if its possible. I could always delete and reformat my portable harddrive when I'm done with it.
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Ok, I'm done with my experiment with the partition and installing an os on a portable harddrive. Observations: 1.) You can't install Win 7 on a portable hard drive even if you partition it as a NTFS, maybe due to it having only usb power and 1 cable for for both data and powering the portable harddrive. 2.) What I did was, partition my external hard drive instead and I installed the Win 7 there...well, it worked by it crashed often and well, i'll just try it with a better spec computer. ( I used my netbook as my tool) 3.) Well, i'm kinda having difficulty placing back the partition i used on my internal hard drive to bring it back to main drive... but i'll just tickle with it a while longer. And dont worry, i have all my important files on a separate portbale hard drive so if it fails, i had the back up programs and files... 4.) Its really time consuming and full of restart and waiting. But really educational... any comments on my findings or other solutions?
It's completely unnecessary to get a commercial application for something like that. Gparted can do exactly what you're looking for, for free. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
You can load OSs and make a USB bootable which is faster than using a CD/DVD because it will shave off minutes during the installation prosess.
