Re: External HD for Booting up
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 00:06:18 -0600
Edward W. Thompson wrote:
> You can boot into DOS from an external HDD but you cannot boot WINXP
> from an external source.
El Quixote wrote:
> Hi, I want to set up an external hd to boot up from my laptop, how
> can I do it??
>
> I do have a regular external hd connected to the firewire port, it
> also works from the usb has well but can't load winxp on it.
> I was thinking of buying an internal hd, insert it on one of those
> 3.5" boxes and load the OS there, would it work that way??
Various interesting discussions on the matter..
Boot Windows xp/2k from usb 2.0 hdd
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Q_20983648.html
Booting from a an external USB hard drive
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1004678
However, from experience, you cannot do this with an NT based OS.
You could make a personalized BartPE CD to boot from and use for 24 hours at
a time..
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