[ndcruz]

I have my Mini10V setup with the 160gb partition with OSX and it works flawlessly, well worth $30 price tag.
Now, I want to partition the drive by cutting it in half so that I can put the copy of Windows 7 Starter on the other partition.

I managed to use the "Disk Utility" and partition the drive into two pieces and I formatted Partition #2 with FAT (80GB).

Now I would like to install Win 7Starter and everytime I try to do so....it says

"Non-system disk"
"Press any key to reboot"

Please can someone help me with this problem?

[rrfranczak3]

1st I think you should format the partition as NTFS or at least FAT32, 2nd what are you using to try to install Win 7 (you really should install a version better than Win 7starter..starter is too limited in many ways), if its a USB thumb drive, did you format that as NTFS and make it bootable, also have you gone into the BIOS and set the boot device to "Legacy USB"?

this utility works great:

WinSetupFromUSB
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PS. Welcome to the forum..

[ndcruz]

I would have definitely chosen NTFS as the second partition for my Win7 to go on, however that wasn’t an option for some reason in the Disk Utility that I was using. Well I copied the Original Install CD (Win7) that was bundled with the computer onto a USB Flash drive. I also did the steps in the DOS command window, as an administrator so that it can boot from the USB Stick.

I know that I should use something better than Windows 7 Starter. But this is what I have for now so I was going to see if I could get it to work. I have Windows 7 Ultimate on my desktop computer.

So when I restart I have the pen drive in and I press F12 and choose boot from USB. But I am not 100% sure it says “Legacy USB”. I will check that later on tonight.

Thanks for welcoming me to the forums; I really appreciate your helping me with my Mini10v.

[ndcruz]

Hi there,

I am using the USB utility to format my external hard drive in hopes to have a bootable windows 7. I am not sure which options to check on this screen: