I have three computers, a Win7 laptop, a Mac and an Ubuntu box. The Win7 laptop has just died and to try to get it running again I have to run various Win7 apps, like HDScan and Intel's raid manager IAStorUI, but I can't get Windows to load.
How do I create a CD or a USB stick that will boot into a Windows GUI? My rescue disk lets me run command prompt commands, but not any app that needs a GUI.
I have looked at Oracle's virtual box and there seems to be a release called portable-virtualbox but I need Windows to run the install exe.
Are there any other solutions? e.g. iso images I can just burn to disk?
This question had been marked as a duplicate of Windows OS on external hard drive, but for new potential answerers, my situation is different from that question and is not covered by the answers there. To clarify:
I need a solution that I can set up using either Mac or Ubuntu, because I do not have a functional Windows OS anymore.
Anything like Win2Go or Windows to Disk does not help because I can't run them.
GRUB does not provide a solution for creating a bootable Win7 USB stick.
Neither does installing VMware on Linux mint.
BartPE is no longer available.