Re: Windows2003 on external disk
- From: Fran <LANLady@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Jan 2006 16:26:04 -0600
I don't know if it's natively available but I found the following that
may be of interest:
SureBoot Corporation (www.sureboot.com) already has this functionally
working for Windows 2K and XP. Their technology allows Win 2K/XP to
boot and run from any USB or 1394 storage device. Not just external
hard drives, but also storage devices such as USB key drives. Imagine
XP running on a 256MB USB drive key or 2K on a 128MB key. They are
able to do all of this on legacy machines that don?t support USB or
1394 devices in the ROM BIOS.
Additionally they have technology that allows Win 2K/XP to boot and
operate from read-only CD or DVD media without requiring any writeable
disk storage. They?ve been demonstrating a related product that
automatically generates a bootable Win 2K/XP CD from any existing
end-user Win 2K/XP configuration. The generated CD becomes a fully
functional Win 2K/XP disaster recovery environment for the machine
from which it was created. Their technology to automatically generate
a protected Win 2K/XP rescue environment on the hard drive is also
pretty cool.
It appears that Microsoft is addressing this issue, too. I found the
following on their site:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usb-boot.mspx
I didn't read the whole thing but what I found looks like a
specification that will allow others (vendors, etc) to assist in
creating the spec.
-Fran-
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