Windows 7 Beta a Portable Hard Drive? -

I have a 230GB portable hard drive. It has all my media on it because i have very little space on my laptop. So my question is: Will installing Windows 7 on my portable hard drive cause me to lose the files on it?

Simple answer: Yes. Long answer: Not all BIOS systems can support booting from external drives. But you will lose everything on that drive if you install to it because Windows will format the drive before installing a new operating system. There are sometimes ways around this, but I m not sure if there are for Windows 7. Good luck.

I would backup anything important somewhere else just to be sure, and restore those files after you re done.