Re: Boot from a External Drive - Possible?

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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Windows XP, or any other operating system,
> cannot be installed on an external drive.
>
> How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
> Microsoft Newsgroups
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Richard Lionheart" wrote:
>
> | Hi,
> |
> | I was running a three-computer workgroup: Win2kPro, Win2kAS and
> WinXP-Pro.
> | I stupidly hosed the latter two machines. I wrecked the XP machine by
> | making a mistake when trying to use Partition Magic to expanded XP
> | partition. The AS machine somehow lost NTLDR. All machines have
> multiple
> | NT partitions.
> |
> | I bought an external hard drive with goal of installing an OS on that
> drive
> | using my still-working machine, then moving it successively to each of
> dead
> | machines in order to recover important data from their hard drives
> before
> | trying to reinstall OSs on them.
> |
> | If that seems workable, I assume I should install Linux on the external
> | drive because it could read NT partitions. Id rather put XP on the
> external
> | drive when attached to my 2K machine, but fear that HAL from the 2K
> machine
> | qould be inappropriate when installing the external drive and booting
> from
> | it on the other machines.
> |
> | Does any of this make any sense?
> |
> | Thanks in advance,
> | Richard
>


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