Re: External HD for Booting up

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You can boot into DOS from an external HDD but you cannot boot WINXP from an
external source.


"El Quixote" <elquixote@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e$qo9H9NFHA.1528@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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??
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> EQ


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