In many videos you can see Windows To Go running on MacBooKs I've tried to do that too but it doesn't work. Tthe EFI boot loader doesn't recognize my USB PenDrive. Could someone help me?
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Answered my question, only bootia64 is recognized by my macbook, so only WDP x64 works, now everithing works great but nvidia 9400m driver
Boot your crappy external hard drive I finally figured a way for most of my machines to recognize the WD drive, I needed to install PLOP Boot manager. You can find it at Plop.at (I would just post the link, but I don't have 20 posts yet...) It works getting my stupid drive to work on the other machines.... I also found out that it doesn't exactly work on every machine, PLOP will not read a USB HDD behind a usb hub. So machines that has gobs of ports on the machine might just mean that it will not work. Besides that Windows 8 works great even though I installed the 32-bit copy. The only issue I've had was when I installed driver for the Intel Graphics driver for a different machine, it continued to crash when it got to the Windows 8 bootloader menu on another machine that had an Intel Chipset. Besides Windows 8 has never worked better!
i am trying to install using pwcreator in virtualbox but it shows incompatible flash drive. it is 32gb usb 3 drive
Thanks for the tip TFN. I tried this part (above) but sadly no joy w/ the results as it cannot be used, it still detects the 350MB partition (the size of mine) even tho the 28.5GB (x) partition has a earlier drive letter. I tried adding the "boot" folder to the NTFS (x) partition too but that didn't help. So I googled around some more & found some advice on "a button to change to flip the usb stick flag from removable to hdd drive", I'll try that next once I figure out the flash drives VID & PID. Hopefully once changed it'll work on all PCs, like my external USB3.0 Hdd (3 of 4 anyway) does.
yes but i did it in my windows 7 host os. i renamed the hitachi driver sys file to drive.sys. I could not install that driver. The usb drive has one active ntfs partition. i am not able to make it a fixed drive For me installing in thumb drive not usb hdd does not work tried by other means.
It seems like you didn't delete the 350MB partition to do that: - right click on "Computer" then click "Manage" - look at the left column and find "Disk Management" click on it - Now you can see all your mass storage devices. If you correctly installed Hitachi Microdrive drivers, Disk management will recognize your USB Pendrive as a "not removable device" in that case right click on the 350MB partition and select remove volume -Make sure that the NTFS 28,5GB partition has a letter assigned to it, if it hasn't right click on the NTFS partition select "change drive letter and path" and click on "Add" button - Run bcdboot x:\windows /s x: \f BIOS If you could not apply bcdboot x:\windows /s x: \f BIOS it MUST be because you're not running Windows developer preview.
Thanks for the quick reply TFN. I missed the part where I was to delete the small 350MB partition. Will using this technique make the flash drive Win8 DP OS available on "all PCs"? Or do I need to go thru a/the process on them too. Ya the "bcdboot x:\windows /s x: \f BIOS" appeared to apply fine, the cp gave me a list of commands when I completed though.
sorry sorry sorry, forgot one little step.... in disk mangement after you delete the FAT32 Partition, right click on NTFS partition and select "Mark partition as Active". That's all it should boot now! if you encounter an error while "Preparing" appears during boot, start over with pwcreator and follow all the steps: Look at post 31 (updated) -create Windows to go pendrive with pwcreator -delete FAT32 partition -mark NTFS partition as Active and assign a letter to it -Use bcdboot to add bootmanager -restart and boot from pendrive - enable testsigning -reboot - install hitachi microdrive on Windows To Go -reboot
There should be no need to rename it. The .sys file is referenced in the .inf, so unless you changed the reference to the renamed file name as well it won't install. Also, driver signing isn't enforced on x86, so enabling test mode is only required for x64.
i am not able to install it. when i try using updating driver it says driver software for your device is upto date. pwcreator is from 7850 version.