Re: Boot from a External Drive - Possible?

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Thanks Kerry for perhaps the most positive and helpful post to my question.
I've picked up a 160GB external drive with a USB2 interface. I'll see how
it goes.

Regards,
Richard

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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> "Richard Lionheart" <NoOne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > 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
> >
>
> XP can be booted from an external device if the motherboard supports it.
> There are very few motherboards that support this. If yours are among them
> only the manufacturer of the boards in question can tell you. If you can
> change the boot device in the BIOS to USB it may work. More than likely it
> will not. I have tried it successfully on an Intel D915GMHL BTX
motherboard.
> I have not seen it work on any other motherboard.
>
> Kerry
>
>
>


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