Re: Installing Windows XP on an external hard disk

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Sounds interesting, can you explain a little bit more please?

"Bill James" wrote:

You might consider using VMWare or VirtualPC and keep the OS image on the external hard drive. This "can" be moved from computer to computer, within certain limits. Of course, you need the proper licensing to do this.

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Bill James


"xxxPeNgUiNxxx" <xxxPeNgUiNxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F1C741C1-ACBB-4371-9896-B66B212871C0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unfortunately this is not an option for I am using a laptop, the whole family
is using it, plus, if I got that drive and wanted to run it on another
computer that computer would have to have the driver track so it's not gonna
be that portable. I think this is it, if Windows doesn't support installing
it on external hard drives then I'm giving up, I'm gonna use Linux and forget
about Windows, I can find a machine that has VB 6 so I can keep developing
that application and I will shift to Linux programming after this...
Microsoft didn't leave me any other option...

"Rock" wrote:

"xxxPeNgUiNxxx" wrote

I tried to install Windows XP Professional on my 80 GBs USB 2.0 Toshiba
external hard disk, the first level went well, after the first reboot
(After
the files have been coppied) I got a BSOD informing me that I should
remove
any new hardwareand stuff like that, it mentioned something about SCSI
hard
disks, what can I do about it?

Though some claim you can install and run XP from an external USB drive, and
you could Google for supposed directions on this, I have never actually
known anyone of any repute who has done this successfully. It's not
designed to be installed on and run from an external USB drive.

Now installing to a drive that's outside of the system but connected to an
internal connector, not USB, will work. In that case it's still an
"internal" drive. One way to do this is to install a drive rack in a spare
drive bay, and install to the drive in that rack. It's an internal drive,
per it's connection. Use different drives for different people or needs.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]



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