Does the autounattend.xml file work with a New Installation to a HDD? If so where do I put the file?

Hi All,

Good day. I'm having issue to use my cloned OS in different laptop. It is successful to use the cloned OS in Lenovo ThinkPad L430.

However, when I try to use in HP EliteBook 840, it failed.

I had checked the BIOS/UEFI setting at HP EliteBook 840 and it is using Legacy instead of UEFI.

Take note that both Lenovo ThinkPad L430 and HP EliteBook 840 are using windows 7 32 bits and both using Legacy but it just can't use in HP EliteBook.

I'm using external SSD running USB 3.0 with 128GB ADATA SSD that plug in into laptop USB3.0 slot.

The clone OS is windows 8.1 and it is perfectly running in Lenovo ThinkPad L430.

Anyone can help?

Regards,
Stevenson

First I would like to thank you for this program.I am a multibooter bitten with the Linux bug but also a Windows user and I use two hard drives.When I install a new distro to the boot order sometimes it messes EFI boot order all up. Or I get one that keeps wanting to make itself the default boot or I end up with two EFI entries that both say "ubuntu" for example.I can go in and check the boot path under "edit" and rename it to keep things more organized.Sometimes its like a dog chasing his tail, I go EasyUEFI to bios , looks good, save and exit bios and its wrong again.But, with patience a few moves with easyuefi , disabling or lowering priority of a boot I eventually get the desired boot order.I like to one time boot with F12 since my wife is computer challenged and a dedicated Windows user.I set it as default.EasyUEFI has saved me from starting all over several times.
My Question, every once in a while I get two or three Windows Boot Manager entries when the boot order gets messed up.One of these boot entries if you click on "edit" has optional information listed under the boot path.These usually dissappear if I get the boot order straight but if the Windows Boot Manager entry with the optional entries gets set at the top of the boot order it boots to Linux Mint.I made the mistake recently before I knew better and tried to delete it , either easyuefi got confused because of the common entry name or I deleted the wrong one I dont know. I had to go back to the install disk of Windows 10 and do repair of the EFI partition.What if I just edited the Optional information under the boot path of this rogue Windows Boot Manager if it shows up again would Mint put it back?I have a straight Linux Mint boot EFI path dont need or want this rogue Windows Boot Manager. Weird, how when your really fighting the boot order all these entries show up in EasyUefi until you get the order right and boot a couple times, then they disappear.

Hello!

Recently, I have been trying to get a portable version of windows onto a flash for me to use on other computers. I have gone though lots of tutorials and threads, and I think in the process of reading this thread here I tried to clean my flash drive as I was getting the error message, "Version of Windows Already Installed" (I got it to start successfully before, but cancelled it because I thought it wasn't working, and now I realized I could have just deleted the hidden files, im sorry for being so stupid.) I tried to fix it using the diskpart commands, but I am unable to execute the command "format quick fs-nfts" as it says, "The file system is incompatible." I tried to go back into WinToUsb to see if I could start the installation again, but I am unable to select a boot partition now. Is there any way to fix this?

Hello,
I have a pc with win 8.1. From another pc I made a USB device with a VHDX-based Windows. I follow instruction "Booting both BIOS-based and UEFI-based computer" and create 2 partition, one FAT32 and one NTFS.

Now I want modify the boot Menu of win 8.1 to add an entry to boot from USB VHDX. The difficult is that in a new Entry of the Boot Menu I must insert the path of *.efi in \Windows\syste32\ directory. Obviusly if the operating system is into del VHDX, I haven't a Windows path.

Someone know if is possible and how, to invoke from a Windows Boot Menu the start of a Windows OS inside a VHDX?


Thanks
Luca

Failed to extract file from the WIM file. Please temporarily deactivate your anti-virus software, and try again. (0x000000F400B40000)
Well, my anti-virus expired and I turned off windows defender, still unsure why i could not install

Title says it all, please help me, I want to install windows on a second hard drive

I used WintoUSB to install Windows 10 home to an external drive. Works great right now.  If I were to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, would Bitlocker work on the drive since its booted from USB?

Or, is there a better solution that still encrypts the entire drive AND lets me boot from it?

Thanks

Hello,

VHD works great, but how does one create a Legacy or VHDX stick when those options are grayed out?


I've been successful in converting the VHD to VHDX via Hyper-V Manager,

but not successful yet in getting it to boot by changing the device with BCDEDIT:

bcdedit /set {new_guid} device vhd=WinToUSB.vhdx


Is there a better procedure?


Thanks.

I've ran some different installations from the USB thumb drive and I usually experience severe slowdowns. Usually, the disk usage tops 100% for several minutes and the response time goes up and down from 0 to more than 16 seconds.

This is a screen capture of the Task Manager while this happens. The system, while it happens is almost unusable, and it happens quite often.



What could we do to avoid this?
Thanks!