Boot area on an external hard drive without deleting data

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DeusModus2012-01-12 11:30:03

USB flash drives

DeusModus, 2012-01-12 11:30:03

Hello.
I have a friend's netbook with either memory problems, or a crooked Windows, which was installed by the unfortunate masters. There is a proven distribution kit for testing everything and everything and installing different OSes.
The problem is that I only have an external screw from WD per terabyte from which 300 gigs are free. Of course, you can’t format it, there’s nowhere to backup it.

Can I create a boot area (partition probably) on a flash drive / hard drive without deleting content? The file system is NTFS.

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Gregory, 2012-01-12
@DeusModus

GParted can change / shift partitions, it is available as a bootable USB flash drive or disk. A year ago, I did not spoil anything, but I had a backup just in case.

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utrack, 2012-01-12
@utrack

I can tell you something :) With this www.getusb.info/flip-your-bit-usb-utility-to-make-local-drive/ utility, you can turn USB Removable into HDD, and then you can try to put it rough or something something like that.

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Naps, 2012-01-12
@Naps

If you need to install Windows 7, then
1) Copy all folders from the disk / image to hard.
2) On the command line:
boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 drive letter: /mbr