{"id":332,"date":"2012-08-13T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2012-08-13T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:03:00","slug":"make-an-external-hard-drive-bootable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/make-an-external-hard-drive-bootable\/","title":{"rendered":"Make an external hard drive bootable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, so I found a lot of information on how to make a USB\u00a0flash drive bootable. But none\u00a0of them worked on making an external\u00a0USB <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mechanical<\/span> hard drive bootable. I finally found a procedure which actually worked! It is <a href=\"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=345\" target=\"_blank\">posted here<\/a> by Kevin.<\/p>\n<p>Note 1: On step\u00a0#2 where he talks about running the bootsect\u00a0command&#8230;.there is something\u00a0more which needs to be done. The CMD prompt on my win 7 machine had to be elevated (right click\u00a0on the cmd and choose &#8220;run as admin&#8221;). After that this command made my external drive bootable:<\/p>\n<pre>bootsect\u00a0\/nt60 G:<\/pre>\n<p>Yahoo! (thanks Kevin!)<\/p>\n<p>Note 2:<\/p>\n<p>The tool from Microsoft does not work for external Mechanical HDDs. It only works on USB flash drives.<\/p>\n<p>Note 3:<\/p>\n<p>More useful links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?ltr=U\">http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?ltr=U<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20081104\/tip-make-your-pdc-2008-usb-hard-drive-a-bootable-windows-7-install-disk\/\">http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20081104\/tip-make-your-pdc-2008-usb-hard-drive-a-bootable-windows-7-install-disk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, so I found a lot of information on how to make a USB\u00a0flash drive bootable. But none\u00a0of them worked on making an external\u00a0USB mechanical hard drive bootable. I finally found a procedure which actually worked! It is posted here by Kevin. Note 1: On step\u00a0#2 where he talks about running the bootsect\u00a0command&#8230;.there is something\u00a0more which needs to be done. The CMD prompt on my win 7 machine had to be elevated (right click\u00a0on the cmd and choose &#8220;run as admin&#8221;). After that this command made my external drive bootable: bootsect\u00a0\/nt60 G: Yahoo! (thanks Kevin!) Note 2: The tool from Microsoft does not work for external Mechanical HDDs. It only works on USB flash drives. Note 3: More useful links: http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?ltr=U http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20081104\/tip-make-your-pdc-2008-usb-hard-drive-a-bootable-windows-7-install-disk\/ &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsys","tag-system-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}