can I install windows server 2012 on an external hard drive?

Thijs

Hello, I have an 250GB external hard drive and I was wondering if I could install windows sever 212 on it without making any changes to my windows 7 computer, and how do I do that?cI want the drive to contain the operating system and have it be a standalone from my computer, is that possible?

thanks! Thijs

Answer
Short answer: No, you can not.

Explanation: Software installed in a windows environment adds information to the registry, additional information to tie everything together. The registry is part of the OS on your C: drive. As long as the ext. h.d. is attached to your own computer, it will find the necessary registry information; but the moment you connect it to a different computer, the registry information will not be there, and the program (server 2012, in this particular instance) will fail.

Sorry! :-(

Good method or software to mirror an external hard drive?

Rich

I have consolidated a bunch of external hard drives, deleted garbage, etc. I am very organized, and managed to get all the photos on one drive with a lot of room left. I have an identical empty drive. I would like a method to copy the drive with photos to empty drive (mirror) then store the copy in my safe deposit box. I would bring it back every couple of months to update and add new photos. I want a system that will automatically recognize and add only new stuff, so it is easy. What is the best method or software to do this? I use windows and mac, but drives are NTFS, my Macs read/Write NTFS and my PCs read write Mac drives, so it is not an issue where I do it (but I would prefer mac, as that is my mainstay) if pc is best solution, I'll just move the drive when I update.

All photos are stored in date description folders starting with year, and may have sub folders for RAW and JPEG. I also use lightroom, so I am going to clear lightroom library and sync to new consolidated drive. An Example folder might be "2012-02-21 Family Dinner" and that folder may have just JPEGS or 2 sub folders for Jpegs and RAW. This ensures true chronological order.

Any Suggestions? I just don't want to do it manually as I am afraid I will miss somehing, or spent time overwriting data.

Answer
I do something similar,

On the drive i permanently connected, i have 1 folder in the root of the drive and all my other folders and files in that.

on my backup drive i make a folder with the date as name and when i connect my backup drive i just drag the 1 folder (containing everything) from my permanent drive to the folder i made with the days date on it on my backup drive.

This way i have a few full copies of my permanent drive, and just delete the older ones after a few months.

I am by no means saying this is the "correct" way of doing it, but this way a dont need any 3rd party software and i can backup to any backup drive by just drag and dropping 1 folder.

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