Win7 on a separate disk

I'd like to install Win7 on one of my 4 internal drives. The Bootcamp installation guide describes the process of partitioning, and then installing on that partition, but what about just installing on an unpartitioned HD? Also, the installation guide does mention that if you're going to go this route, that you should remove all the other drives. Is there a technical reason for that, or are they just trying to minimize the chance of someone mistakingly writing over an important drive?

Windows doesn't want to install if there are drives using GPT.
You actually can just boot from Windows 7 DVD and proceed (with other drives removed).

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Installing boot camp on a separate disk

This is pretty basic, but I couldn't find an answer. Better to ask than to mess up an install:
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There really is only one logical method, which you came to on your own.
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Does run Mac OS X from external disk will damage Win7 installed at internal disk?

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Does run Mac OS X from external disk will damage Win7 installed at internal disk?
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OK to copy Win7 (Home Premium SP1) disk to external hard drive?

The MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS for Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
say:
10. BACKUP COPY.
a. Media.If you acquired the
software on a disc or other media, you may make one backup copy of the media. You may use it only to reinstall the software on the licensed computer.
That tells about backing up the installation media.
What about "backing up" the Windows disk itself, by copying a mirror image it to an (portable) external hard drive, similar to what's mentioned in
According to Malmition's November 12, 2012 Making a copy of Windows disk - Microsoft technical link request
post on this forum:
I work with an engineer that feels he constantly needs to restore his windows 7 drive to its original state.
He does this by have a copy of his c drive - it is not an image and he is not using any imaging software - just a flat copy of his c drive.
When we wants to start over he formats his drive, boot from a thumb drive, and copies the c drive back.
This is working fine for him.
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I thought you couldn't just copy your windows drive?
I'd like to do something similar.
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Thank you.
- Russell J (USA)

Sorry to say: Try to solve real problems.
Major drawback: You have not specified what license you have. Specification Win7 Home Premium is not enough.
1. Do not compare installation content on DVD and that of on hard disk. Installation disk contains packed files for your Windows. Sector by sector copy of HDD is NOT the same as what you can find on install DVD. From the point of law, the backup use (native,3rd
pty or by DD sector by sector) is legal, if you use it for restoration of Windows on HDD for the same computer, if you have ONE license.
2. No one could object the situation, when you are backing multiple times (full, incremental,... backup)
3. You cannot discuss c: drive only, because there is another partition that is important, namely hidden system partition. (Minimum of two partitions). License should cover the whole disk, not boot partition only.
4. There are special rules for OEM, multilicenses, ... I have created system image that I distributed on many computers, because of I used special licenses that allow for multiple use in lab environment (Campus License, MSDN Academic Alliance, Dreamspark)
Regards
Milos

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/Volumes/Macintosh HD/private/var
would normally represent /private/var on the boot volume.
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SAN partitions vs separate disks

Hi all,
We're currently on a SAN that has individual disks for the OS, for the oracle software, and for the datafiles of the various databases. We are planning to move to another SAN that will have 1 large lun presented to the OS. As i understand it, this lun will have multiple RAID disks (running either RAID 1 or RAID 10) underneath it. The engineers said that to get individual file systems, i would then use the OS to partition this large lun. Because of the disks behind it, they claim that this shouldn't affect I/O, even though the partitioning will be done at the OS level.
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Can be done. From a Linux perspective.. You can partition a LUN and use one partition for OCFS2, another for ext3 and another for ASM.
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Being a bit of a fool i ignored the "make backup disks" prompts.
Ive deleted the original windows 7 install in favour of windows 8 but after finding issues with playing certain games in win8 i would like to be able to put win7 back on it
My hard drive still has the recovery partition but pressing f11 at bios screen does nothing
is there anyway to recover my pc back to the original setup without recovery disks?
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I am very excited to try arch linux, but am having trouble with the
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Last edited by wes (2011-03-07 21:24:44)

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Hey Guys,
Looking for your advice and any links if any...cheers in advance
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Is this where I get ALL necessary Toshiba drivers for my PC from?
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Tried to email Toshiba support but at step 1 of their email process validation failed due to my PC being out of warranty so will call them on Monday instead
THANK YOU THANK YOU, for any help you can give big ro small
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WOW, thanks Macius for that great, full and thorough reply...cheers mate
I suspected I didn't have a recovery partition - so thanks for confirming it as I planned to risk it and try! I guess it doesn't really matter why, and it would be futile to go and blame the re-seller or Toshiba at this late stage in the game in hopes they would help...
Yeah, I just went to Microsoft Software Recovery hoping to download Win 7 OS and create a recovery disk but of course Microsoft would NOT allow it due to it being software that was pre-installed on the device blah blah blah (see error image)
And I didn't bother back then in 2009 to create recovery media as you wisely descibed, mostly due to laziness and mentally putting it in the 'too hard basket'...I didn't really understand it - or much about computers at the time.
Re - your Option #2 - thanks for confirming Toshiba drivers. I could/can do this - but don't really want to buy something I already have, perhaps I'll check out ebay or see if a friend has a disk
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I'm thinking that IF Option #1 is a No-Go then - maybe Plan B or Option #3 could be:
Do an Audit of Programs to identify those I don't need and can safely remove - then remove using Control Panel/ Remove Programs tool
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Any final thoughts???
Anyhow - thanks very much again
Rick

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I have a T410. i5, 4gb, intel chipset.
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/c74b7b51-697f-4a73-a9f8-acc2a5d...
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