Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Is it possible to install Windows 10 from a USB flash drive to a USB hard drive from inside Windows 7, without affecting the Windows 7

I am trying to get a hard drive ready for a new computer. I was wondering if I can run setup.exe (within Windows 7) from a Windows 10 USB install flash stick I got ready using an official Windows 10 ISO, to install the OS on a new SSD I have in a USB enclosure. I want to do this in order to get the SSD ready for a new, completely different, machine. I want to do this without messing up the Windows 7 on the old machine in any way - just use the old machine to prepare the SSD for the new machine.


TL;DR - Use a Windows 7 host to prep a Windows 10 install (from a USB flash stick) on a new SSD without impacting the Windows 7 host in any way.

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