run os with a usb stck and hard drive for storage

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Rinu Leo

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hi guys!!!
i would like to know if is it possible to have OS installed in an USB stick and use hard drive just for storage???
im asking this because my bootmgr was corrupted in my harddrive, and i dont want to wipe all my data in other partitions...so, is it possible to run the system that way??? if yes please tell me how..
my mobo-gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
USB STICK-KINGSTON 16GB USB 3.0
please answer ASAp!
Thnx in advance!!
 
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cant install thats the problem!! it goes fine till the completing installing stage and it says "windows could not update computer's boot configuration. installation cannot proceed"
my important data is in other partitions still cant installl
any solution for this???


 
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@Rinu

When you are installing Windows, are you formatting the partition that you are going to use for the OS? You said that you have your data stored on other partitions so it would be fine to do a clean format on the OS partition. Or you could always purchase a hard drive docking station (hard drive toaster some call it).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071

You can dock your hard drive into this and plug it into another computer and pull off all of the data that you need. You can also run a linux cd if you need to pull data off of the hard drive if you need to and then you could try formatting the entire drive and starting over from scratch. Are you trying to repair your installation of Windows, or are you formatting and then running a clean install?
 
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yes bro, iam formatting the C partition before installing it. there is no success everytime!.i'll check out the docking thing later because i stay in india( might not be possible for me to buy it).and yesi cant try repair the installation because i formatted the partition and there is no OS to select and recover it!!!. my thought is can i run windows 7 in any usb stick and then dump the data in my hard drive to external, or my other option is to buy an SSD(which i was planning to buy it llong time ago),remove my old hdd install OS into ssd and then just use the HDD space for storage
do u think this is good idea?? is it gonna work if i remove the hdd and put my ssd and do a clean install??
thnx in advance


 
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If you purchase another hard drive, you could surely install Windows onto it. You could then access the other hard drive through Windows Explorer as if you were accessing an external hard drive. It will just be listed as another internal hard drive but can be accessed the same way. You could always access the HDD, transfer the data you want to your SSD (cut and paste), and then completely format the HDD to use as storage space.
 
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but my question is that will it nstall onto ssd? or give me the same error while installing in hdd??
the error"windows could not update computer's boot configuration,installation could not complete"??
 
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Rinu Leo

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thanks for the reply i am gonna do it!
i have a doubt here!! i have put up a windows usb drive and in the installation time i brought up cmd using shift+f10 key, opened notepad and found 2 backup files in one of my partition?? can i do anything with those to make a backup??
and if yes please tell me how to do the backup operation using those files
thanking you in advance!!!
 
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