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How to emulate my external HDD as DVD?

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darkhorn   06-17-2009 at 09:33:14 PM

My motherboard has an emulation option to emulate USBs as CD/DVD, HDD or Floppy. I copy the files in a CD or DVD to my external HDD (Western Digital 160GB) but it does not work as CD/DVD. What I'm missing?

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   06-18-2009 at 04:02:40 AM
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It will emulate a CD/DVD, HDD or a floppy if you use a USB thumb drive. You can't force DVD emulation for a hard disk.

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darkhorn   06-18-2009 at 07:57:13 AM
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Isn't it same thing? USB thumb drive or USB hard disk? Mine is http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digi [...] B000J1HPXK

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   06-18-2009 at 02:32:48 PM
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No they are not. Why would you want to use a hard disk and emulate a CD/DVD?

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darkhorn   06-18-2009 at 02:44:23 PM
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My DVD-ROM is dead. I want to install Windows 7 from my hard disk. I found one another way (actually it is for Vista) but I'm gettig error. http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/20 [...] flash.html It says that botloader or something like that (I do not remmeber exact phrase now) is corrupted.

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   06-18-2009 at 02:56:34 PM
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Since you want Windows 7 on it, did you do it from a Windows 7 DVD?

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darkhorn   06-18-2009 at 03:02:46 PM
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Yes. 7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso Accesed it using a virtual DVD-ROM.

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   06-18-2009 at 05:00:10 PM
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I never tried accessing boot info from a virtual DVD-ROM, but it should work since VMs can be installed from an ISO file. You may want to try a different procedure, like this one that's a lot simpler: http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog [...] 1665.entry

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