Phantom Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 I have recently came across a problem Dual booting my Computer with windows 7 and unbuntu 10.10. The problem is that my windows 7 installation disk is unbootable. It works if I run it from inside a exising windows OS. However atm only Ubuntu 10.10 is installed on that machine. Is there a way to get a widows OS running from a usb then run the CD from inside that OS? My Windows 7 disk is the full version and my pc can boot from CD and USB. Also I would prefer it if the Windows OS was xp as it is the only other Windows OS disk I have avaliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgront Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 I have recently came across a problem Dual booting my Computer with windows 7 and unbuntu 10.10. The problem is that my windows 7 installation disk is unbootable. It works if I run it from inside a exising windows OS. However atm only Ubuntu 10.10 is installed on that machine. Is there a way to get a widows OS running from a usb then run the CD from inside that OS? My Windows 7 disk is the full version and my pc can boot from CD and USB. Also I would prefer it if the Windows OS was xp as it is the only other Windows OS disk I have avaliable. You can boot windows 7 from flash drive. and is it that the disk is just not bootable from the getgo or is it that it just isnt booting? and when you install windows 7 on a harddrive with a grub loader it removes the grub loader I believe or it atleast just removes the reference to grub, I just did that on my machine and had to reinstall ubuntu 10.10 wasnt annoying because i didnt have anything in ubuntu substantial but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgront Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Here is a thought if you have the iso. I haven't tried this but this seems about right. http://maketecheasier.com/boot-and-install-windows-7-from-usb-flash-drive/2009/01/23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 The Disk it self was not bootable from the get go. Thanks for the suggestion but I have tried doing that, as I installed win xp from usb because my cd drive was not working at the time, However it still didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Does any know how I can install bartpe or other windows based system on a Flashdrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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