Hi All,
I've been wanting to create a Windows To Go Drive on my Android so that I can simply plug in my phone into any PC i want and voila, my own Windows 8.1!
I've only had limited success, so I wanted to ask the dev community what could be going wrong.
What I Used:
Sprint Galaxy Nexus (Rooted, 4.3)
DriveDroid
Sony Vaio Laptop running Windows 8 (Win7 and below dont have latest DISM or Diskpart) (Capable of UEFI booting)
What I Did:
1. Used DriveDroid to create a 10GB image file. It made the file, so i'm guessing that the internal sdcard of the Nexus is not FAT32. No Partition Table and no File System (Yet)
2. Plugged in the phone. Recognized it as a USB Drive.
3. Used Diskpart to clean drive, create primary partition, format as ntfs and set active
4. Extracted install.wim from Windows 8.1 Disc
5. Used DISM to copy image onto Blank USB Drive (Took around 2 hours)
**It's better to use DISM in comparison to ImageX, since ImageX is older and has mixed results
6. Used BCDBoot to copy boot files onto USB Drive
7. Rebooted. UEFI Boot Failed (Didnt even attempt to recognize the drive)
8. Legacy Boot WORKED! Reached Windows Boot Manager :o
From here though, the Boot Manager simply refuses to recognize the existence of a Bootable OS. (Screenshot uploaded) :crying:
I've been using EasyBCD to change the configuration to make it work. No results yet.
I dunno how close I am to making this work - Maybe really close or probably a gazillion miles away. But I've put a lot of thought and effort into this and was really hoping it would work. :laugh:
Any advice as to where i could be going wrong? :confused:
I've been wanting to create a Windows To Go Drive on my Android so that I can simply plug in my phone into any PC i want and voila, my own Windows 8.1!
I've only had limited success, so I wanted to ask the dev community what could be going wrong.
What I Used:
Sprint Galaxy Nexus (Rooted, 4.3)
DriveDroid
Sony Vaio Laptop running Windows 8 (Win7 and below dont have latest DISM or Diskpart) (Capable of UEFI booting)
What I Did:
1. Used DriveDroid to create a 10GB image file. It made the file, so i'm guessing that the internal sdcard of the Nexus is not FAT32. No Partition Table and no File System (Yet)
2. Plugged in the phone. Recognized it as a USB Drive.
3. Used Diskpart to clean drive, create primary partition, format as ntfs and set active
4. Extracted install.wim from Windows 8.1 Disc
5. Used DISM to copy image onto Blank USB Drive (Took around 2 hours)
**It's better to use DISM in comparison to ImageX, since ImageX is older and has mixed results
6. Used BCDBoot to copy boot files onto USB Drive
7. Rebooted. UEFI Boot Failed (Didnt even attempt to recognize the drive)
8. Legacy Boot WORKED! Reached Windows Boot Manager :o
From here though, the Boot Manager simply refuses to recognize the existence of a Bootable OS. (Screenshot uploaded) :crying:
I've been using EasyBCD to change the configuration to make it work. No results yet.
I dunno how close I am to making this work - Maybe really close or probably a gazillion miles away. But I've put a lot of thought and effort into this and was really hoping it would work. :laugh:
Any advice as to where i could be going wrong? :confused: