Re: Dual Boot Installation to External HD

In article <unejKVpTIHA.280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"JB1964" <JB1964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are there any known issues with installing a second instance of XP to an
external USB HD? I have found nothing in the discussions that would lead
me
to believe otherwise, but I still get a check disk error on the external
drive during installation. I have looked at every post I could find on
dual
boot procedures and found nothing on this subject. I've run check disk on
the second drive and everything seems in order. It has two partitions and
no
errors on either. Is the USB connection the culprit? Any help is greatly
appreciated!

Very simply WINXP will not boot from an external USB drive. There have been
some who claim by 'hacking' the OS they have managed to boot WINXP from a
USB drive, however, I have tried and not succeeded. If you 'must' have
WINXP on an external drive then I think esata drives will 'work' as the
system essentially sees these drives in the same way as an internal drive.


I have 4GB thumbdrive that has XP pro on it!!!
.

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