Bluescreen on windows startup with external usb 3.0 drive

Hi Community,
I recently bought an internal SATA III ssd and a SATA to usb 3.0 adapter, so i can use it as an external drive.
I want to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit on that drive, so I can boot from my iMac.
I used this step by step guide: http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.h tml
The steps to create the partitions and apply the installation image all worked very well, but when i plug in the usb drive and select the windows installation after holding [ALT] on startup, the windows logo animation starts and after 2 seconds a bluescreen appears and the iMac restarts using MacOSX .
My specs:
iMac 27inch, Late 2012
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
The windows 7 installation i want to deploy is 64bits and the PC i used for this is 64bits windows 7 too.
SSD is 250GB Samsung 840 series
Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks ,
user9to7

[UPDATE]:
I tried to boot it from a windows 7 64bit PC. It also crashed there in exactly the same way.
So i think you'll probably need more information about how I installed windows 7:
1) Create 2 partitions: FAT32(350MB, active) and NTFS(remaining disk space)
2) Apply Windows 7 install.wim to partition using x86 version of imagex.exe in WaikTools.
3) Install boot manager with bcdboot on FAT32 partition
4) Done.
But what did I do wrong?
Thanks ,
user9to7

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