Install Windows 7 Onto Sd Card
Jun 20, 2012. I have never installed Windows onto a Flash drive or SD card, I was wondering if people here had any experience. Work than you were hoping for but get a copy of the dental software that is 'restricting' him to XP, set up Virtual XP on a (non dental office) Win7 pc, install the dental software onto the VM.
I'm attempting to install Windows 7 to a 16GB SD card. While I know it's not quite practical, I do have a reason - I want to be able to browser test sites on IE 7/8(Browser compat mode is good enough) as well as IE9. However, I don't want to have 2 Windows installations taking up space on my already tiny 256GB MacBook Air.
I think I'd have no problems doing this with a virtual machine, but I'm stubborn and I think this would be pretty damn cool anyhow.
My initial roadblock is that I can't find the SD Reader's Windows 7 drivers. If I had this on a USB drive, I believe I could load the driver in Windows 7's installer, making the SD card appear as a installation choice.
I know I can create a bootable OS X SD card, so I'm clinging to that as evidence that I can do the same with the Windows 7.
Vertex tools sketchup crack. I have downloaded the Bootcamp Windows 7 drivers, but A) they're all .exe's and B) I can't find the driver on the disk anyways (I believe Apple to be the SD reader manufacturer).
End Goal: Windows 7 on 2 SD cards as bootable devices, a backup of the installation on my external drive for quick re-creation of the SD cards.
So, TL;DR - Has anyone done this? And does anyone know how I can get the SD drivers for Windows 7?
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2 Answers
Using a virtual machine you can build the system on the local drive then move the entire virtual over to the sdcard and run it from there. I currently do this with USB pen drives for the same reason. I test different applications and do not want several different versions on my harddrive. Yes they are slower but still work fine after they boot up.
Windows Setup will not permit you to install to media other than an IDE or SATA connected hard drive, regardless of what drivers you have. Therefore, it is not possible to install and boot a full Windows 7 environment from an SD card.
If you must boot Windows from an SD card, consider using Windows PE, a stripped down version of Windows 7 designed to boot from USB and optical media. You can use use command-line tools from Microsoft or third-party graphical tools to build a customized image with the drivers and programs you need. Please note that you may need to use another computer or virtual machine running Windows to get everything set up properly.
Windows PE is available free of charge to anyone with a valid Windows license as part of the Windows Automated Installation Kit.
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