Re: Booting from a external hard drive in place of the internal drive.
From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 09/12/04
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:47:57 -0700
R. McCarty wrote:
> Windows XP is designed, so that it will not install/run from any
> drive marked as "Removable". However, you would need a PC
> with BIOS that has support for Booting from USB. If you check
> the Properties of the device (Policies), you'll notice that the "Fixed"
> disk option "Enable Write Caching" isn't present.
>
> "Code_Slinger" <CodeSlinger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2BC6E27A-CF5B-4056-B44E-3E791E2118D0@microsoft.com...
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>>I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run
>>Windows
>>XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my
>>system
>>to boot from the external drive?
>>
>>
>>--
>>Thank You From A Grateful User
>
>
>
Does that mean XP can boot from an external drive if the BIOS supports
booting from USB Devices?
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