Copying Internal Drive to External Drive WITH OS

Anguser · Dec 7, 2016

Hi,
I have a pretty old laptop (HP Compaq nc6400) in my home, with Windows 7 installed in it. I want to install Windows 10 Insider Previews on It.
Is it possible to copy all the data including Windows 7 to an External Drive, clean install Windows 10 on internal drive(this drive will be most used, as a regular drive), and boot Windows 7 from External Drive when needed?

Daedpewl · Dec 7, 2016

I would do a clean win7 install on the external, THEN, move ur files over from the internal, afterwards clear your partitions and do a clean install of Win10

uberman · Dec 7, 2016

Simple answer is no it wont boot into an external drive. If you want both operating systems to work correctly-1 back up any important data to the external then -2 use a partitioning program to create 2 partitions -3 install your OSs 1on each partition and 4 use a boot manager to choose which OS to use.

uberman · Dec 7, 2016

you can create partitions natively in windows during the disk format process

Anguser · Dec 8, 2016

Uberman, is this what Multibooting is?
And since the laptop is pretty old will it be able to dual boot?

uberman · Dec 8, 2016

yes as long as your hard drive has enough capacity to install both OS

Anguser · Dec 10, 2016

uberman :

Okay. Thanks

But, actually to be honest, the pc contains some old games which may not be genuine and I've heard that Win10 scans the pc frequently and breaks any software found doubtful that's why my plan was that when Win10 loads up in my pc there shouldn't be any such older software in the harddrive that's why...
What you guys think of it?

Anguser · Dec 10, 2016

And thank you all for responses.

Anguser · Dec 17, 2016

Hi,
Just to do an experiment and see what practically happens, I connected my internal HDD externally to my friend's laptop and tried booting from it, it didn't said Windows won't boot from external but ultimately resulted in it. I chose Windows's Repair and boot option, tried various combinations but same thing every time. Hence Proved

The Paladin · Dec 17, 2016

you could make a bootable ISO of your hard drive to your external drive as a backup, do what you want to your laptop and restore your ISO, will need a cdrom bootable disk for this to work but.. I have done it.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/

Anguser · Dec 28, 2016

Thanks The Paladin

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