Re: Boot Windows XP from external USB drive

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From: Ant (philpi_at_earthlink.netANT)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:19:07 -0700

Same for Symantec products. Can't install them on external USB HDDs.

On 9/14/2004 1:46 PM PT, Emil Astrom wrote:

> No chance then? Too bad ;-(
>
> I don't quite agree on your motivation though. The drive works fine for
> booting so it seems to me that it's XP (rather than the drive) that's not
> designed with this application in mind...
>
> Still, thanks for your help!
>
> /Emil
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O0i%23ImpmEHA.2096@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>
>>Windows XP can only be installed on an internal drive,
>>not an external drive. External drives are designed for
>>backups and file storage only.
>>
>>| Hi!
>>|
>>| I just got an external harddrive that connects to my laptop via USB2. I
>
> now
>
>>| want to boot Windows XP from that drive. Is that possible?
>>|
>>| My BIOS supports booting from USB drives, so that's not a problem, but I
>>| suspect that Windows doesn't like ut very much. I have started
>
> installing it
>
>>| on the harddrive, but when it reboots to complete the installation I
>
> first
>
>>| se the Windows XP logo on the black background, the hard drive spinning,
>>| etc. But when I get to the point where the black screen with the
>
> progress
>
>>| bar is finished I get a blue screen of death with something like the
>>| following:
>>|
>>| "A problem has been detected ...
>>|
>>| *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF894D63C, ..."
>>|
>>| Am I lacking a driver or similar, or is the problem more profound than
>
> that?
>
>>| All information or ideas are really welcome!
>>|
>>| Thanks in advance,
>>|
>>| Emil 

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