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I have 2 1TB hard drives in my desktop, one has a Linux distro on it. I'm trying to install Windows on the second hard drive via a bootable USB, but it won't work. I've tried three different USBs. Microsoft's Windows 7 Installation creator says it can't install bootsect at the very end. Rufus gives me success, but when I boot off the USB my Linux GRUB bootloader overrides it. I open a shell, set root=(usb windows partition) and boot into it, but every time I get past the language it says that it can't load drivers. I've tried switching ports and it still can't detect them. I tried using diskpart in the command prompt, but both of the HDDs are exactly the same size so I don't want to mess with the wrong one. I'm extremely frustrated, I just want to install Windows on the unused HDD and boot off it when I please. For filesystems I have tried NTFS, FAT32 and exFAT, but none work. Any suggestions?