In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: Phenom II
Does anyone know if you can upgrade from WRP? DVD drive on one of my laptops is broken, and it doesn't offer USB booting support. If it did, it would have been back on Windows 7 a few months ago. Might as well upgrade when I can buy a key.
Partition your HDD with a 4GB partition, copy the setup files to that partition and run setup.exe from source folder I believe (Not the setup on the root of the disk)
Since it isn't bootable could you give more insight into doing this? All I have to do is create a 4GB partition, put the files there and then run setup.exe right?
Yep, just imagine that the 4GB partition is the DVD, only run setup from the source folder instead of the root of the disk if I'm remembering right otherwise it will not give a disk option I think (Don't remember exactly but it should work fine)
It doesn't need to be bootable if you start setup from within windows
Can this also be done on a External HDD?
Yea, so long as you run setup from within windows
You might be able to make a bootable external drive if you prepped the drive correctly before copying the setup files to it
I use this method for making bootable USB sticks:
Open elevated CMD prompt and type the following pressing enter after each line
diskpart
list disk
select disk x ------ (x = being the disk number of your USB drive)
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
Exit
Then you can copy everything from the Windows 7/8 installation DVD onto the USB key (a simple drag and drop will do).