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Be able to transfer any operating system onto a portable device such as a solid state external drive or pen drive. Enabling the user to carry copies of older operating systems without having to have a dual boot system

Not sure whether it's possible to do this without first writing data to the bios. which would effectively make it a multi boot system anyway?

Whiterabbit-uk, 25.04.2012, 07:08
Idea status: under consideration

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ChaosKiller, 25.04.2012, 08:02
Most likely possible for windows. When installing windows it installs specific parts to work with specific hardware. If you put a HDD from one computer into another you will, most of the times, get a BSOD or you will get a bootloop.
NightKev, 25.04.2012, 09:43
As ChaosKiller says, Windows installs drivers specific to the hardware on the computer it is installed to. You could probably boot into safe mode and install new drivers, though it might be quite a hassle. Other than that, there's nothing stopping you from installing it onto an external drive (other than space, if using a pen drive smaller than 64GB; though it would probably be incredibly slow unless you have a USB3-capable one, which is going to be overly expensive I would imagine). Actually, it will work with any hard drive, not just SSDs; it's basically their regular partition migration program but with less features (and maybe an extra tweak or two to slightly optimize for SSDs), afaik.
ebax, 25.04.2012, 10:54
Windows does not permit booting from any external device. Win 8 Enterprise version is supposed to permit it though.

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