How to install WIN8 on U disk or mobile hard drive

The WINDOWS8 will be installed in the U disk or mobile hard drive method: Windows8 installed on the U disk or mobile hard drive, of course, you need a U disk or mobile hard disk (more than 5G), if it is a U disk, download Windows 7 usb/dvd Download Tool The software makes Windows 8 DP ISO a bootable boot disk. If you are moving a hard drive, you need to set the following:

1. Computer – Right-manage – disk to ensure that there is a large space on the hard drive partition, or separate a 5-10gb space. Then in Windows System Management, the partition is set to active in Disk Management:

2. The ISO is then read with the virtual optical drive, copy all of the files in it to this partition (including hidden files) or we can prepare a DVD9 disk, burn (not recommended, not to buy at home, and not necessarily useful) or we can also through the network, local disk sharing, etc. Booting through a boot disk and then accessing the run Winload.exe I have not tested, not necessarily good try.

3. Start Installation: First check whether your computer motherboard support USB device boot, if it is, in the boot when you choose to boot through the USB, you can successfully enter the Windows 8 DP installation interface.

　　(Note: If you do not enter the normal, such as his report HAL error, etc., it can only congratulate, your hardware is too avantgarde, it does not support.) )

When you get into the select partition, you need to press Shift + F10 to pull up the command line, OK this time we need to create a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and mount the VHD.

Use the command line dir, etc. first in the existing partition to find a large enough partition, personal advice to find a 50GB free space above the partition, remember his letter, such as D disk, enter the DISKPART tool, command line input DISKPART.

With the command create Vdisk file= "D:win8.vhd" type=expandable maximum=50000 create a maximum space under the D: Disk 50GB dynamically incremented VHD files (with a fixed size of the type=fixed, of course).

It is important to remind everyone that do not think that he is a dynamic increase in space, I can only have less than 50GB of the partition to create it, as such, although the general virtual machine can be read to guide the system or file in the VHD, but directly through the physical machine boot is not a good way, Because when booting starts, she creates a logical partition based on the settings of the VHD, so if you are less than 50GB, and he still wants to occupy 50GB of space, he will report a lack of space error. So keep in mind that you must choose a partition with enough space and then set a reasonable maximum value.

Then select the VHD file and mount it:

In the selection of the installation partition of the interface click Refresh, find the partition you just mounted, confirm the size, select it, the next step begins the formal installation.

The above create VHD step can also be done in Disk Management in your existing Win7, menu, action, create VHD:

Then, reboot and install successfully.

When WINDOWS8 is installed, he will generate his own boot manager, which supports direct Win8 in the VHD, so you should be able to see the following interface:

See the above interface, select the system you want to enter.

If you are familiar with Bcdedit, you can also modify the Boot Manager content yourself or use the Windows 7 Boot manager. The EASYBCD tool is recommended here, the visual interface is simple to operate, much more intuitive than the bcdedit of the command line. (suggest familiar students to operate, otherwise it is easy to get into the system)

Well, roughly simple these steps, the entire installation process of about 20 minutes, and finally look at the landing after my screenshot: