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Can't select destination partition - mbernhardt - 06-25-2015
Trying to install Windows 8.1 on a USB 3 SSD external drive. When I get to the destination, WinToUSB sees the drive and I select it. It shows 2 partitions- 1 small and the other about 110GB. But I can't actually select them and the Next button is greyed out. Any idea what the problem is?
I should add that I was doing this on a Parallels VM on a Mac, also running Windows 8.1 But I don't think that should matter since everything is there. My intent is to make a bootable drive so that I can boot the Mac into Windows without taking up precious internal SSD space (I'll install the Bootcamp drivers onto the external drive later).
RE: Can't select destination partition - admin - 06-25-2015
Thank you for reporting this problem.
Which version of WinToUSB you are using? Can WinToUSB recognize the file system of these two partitions correctly?
Please send the "user.log" to me, it is located in the bin folder under the installation directory.
RE: Can't select destination partition - rcolbert71 - 06-26-2015
(06-25-2015, 10:05 PM)admin Wrote: Thank you for reporting this problem.
Which version of WinToUSB you are using? Can WinToUSB recognize the file system of these two partitions correctly?
Please send the "user.log" to me, it is located in the bin folder under the installation directory.
Was this resolved as I have a 1tb seagate that I am trying to load win 7 to and I cannot get the next button to ungrey either.
I have formatted the drive, set it up both MBR and GPT, fat and NTFS, etc..
It lists in the drop down of both disk amamagement and also the list for WinToUSB.
I have included a snip it.
RE: Can't select destination partition - rcolbert71 - 06-26-2015
(06-26-2015, 02:57 AM)rcolbert71 Wrote:(06-25-2015, 10:05 PM)admin Wrote: Thank you for reporting this problem.
Which version of WinToUSB you are using? Can WinToUSB recognize the file system of these two partitions correctly?
Please send the "user.log" to me, it is located in the bin folder under the installation directory.
Was this resolved as I have a 1tb seagate that I am trying to load win 7 to and I cannot get the next button to ungrey either.
I have formatted the drive, set it up both MBR and GPT, fat and NTFS, etc..
It lists in the drop down of both disk amamagement and also the list for WinToUSB.
I have included a snip it.
Actually I found the issue.
I needed to make the allocation a little bigger on the part of the drive in order to complete the load.
RE: Can't select destination partition - mbernhardt - 06-28-2015
(06-25-2015, 10:05 PM)admin Wrote: Thank you for reporting this problem.
Which version of WinToUSB you are using? Can WinToUSB recognize the file system of these two partitions correctly?
Please send the "user.log" to me, it is located in the bin folder under the installation directory.
I'm out of town so I'll have to deal with it when I return. But in regard to partitions, should I provide an unformatted disk or partitioned? If partitioned, what type of partition and disk formatting do you recommend?
RE: Can't select destination partition - admin - 06-28-2015
Please read this usage guide carefully before using WinToUSB to crate Windows To Go workspace. http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/faq/en_US/How-to-use-WinToUSB.html
RE: Can't select destination partition - mbernhardt - 07-23-2015
So I redid the whole thing later on and everything worked. But now there's a different problem. There are 2 partitions. C: has windows. D: doesn't and has lots of room, but it is not writeable so I have 111GB of nothing. Any idea what I did wrong? Can it be fixed without starting over yet again?
RE: Can't select destination partition - admin - 07-24-2015
Are you sure D: is a ntfs/fat partition? Please run chkdsk to scan D:.
RE: Can't select destination partition - mbernhardt - 07-26-2015
I found the problem. I had never seen a vhd before. When setting up win2usb, that is the default, and the default size is 14GB, which is exactly what I got. Legacy wouldn't boot, so I did it with a vhd but used all the available disk space. Works great now.
RE: Can't select destination partition - admin - 07-26-2015
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