{"id":850,"date":"2019-09-04T00:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=850"},"modified":"2019-09-04T01:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:00:52","slug":"install-windows-on-usb-flash-drive-or-external-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Install Windows on USB Flash Drive or External Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-1-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption>AOMEI Partition Assistant<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You probably have heard of Windows 8 to Go, which allows you install a portable version of Windows 8 on a Microsoft certified USB flash drive. If you are addicted to the old operating system (OS) Windows 7, you may wonder is there a way to install Windows 7 on USB removable storage device?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Windows 7 on a USB flash drive or external hard drive, you can take it with you wherever you go and run Windows7 on any PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows Setup can detect USB hard drive, but when you select the external drive as the target location to install Windows 10\/8\/7, you will get the error \u201cWindows cannot be installed to this disk\u201d. Luckily, there is a workaround for this, and it is quite simple. Even those who does not know how to install Windows from a USB drive can follow this guide to get it done. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disk-partition.com\/windows-7\/install-windows-7-on-usb-4348.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">read the whole story<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably have heard of Windows 8 to Go, which allows you install a portable version of Windows 8 on a Microsoft certified USB flash drive. If you are addicted to the old operating system (OS) Windows 7, you may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=850\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}