What’s more, it is featured with many functions base on disk and partition management as well. This powerful professional freeware can help you to create bootable media within a few clicks. At this point, you can turn to third-party software like AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.
I just wonder what should I do to make bootable external hard drive and then boot Windows 7 from it? Any suggestion shall be appreciated! Thank you!” Create bootable Windows 7 external hard driveĪs mentioned in the “Scenario”, it is wise to make bootable media to format C drive. I know I can make a bootable Windows PE bootable media and then boot Windows 7 from the external hard drive to manage disk. I was told that it was not allowed to format C drive within Windows and I need to format the system drive from somewhere rather than the Windows installation. But when I started to format C drive, the option of “Format Partition” was grayed out. I want to format all the partitions on the original hard drive.
“I have a Dell desktop and the operating system installed on my computer is Windows 7.