I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run Windows
XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my system
to boot from the external drive?


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Windows XP is designed, so that it will not install/run from any
drive marked as "Removable". However, you would need a PC
with BIOS that has support for Booting from USB. If you check
the Properties of the device (Policies), you'll notice that the "Fixed"
disk option "Enable Write Caching" isn't present.

"Code_Slinger" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run
>Windows
> XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my
> system
> to boot from the external drive?
>
>
> --
> Thank You From A Grateful User

R. McCarty wrote:

> Windows XP is designed, so that it will not install/run from any
> drive marked as "Removable". However, you would need a PC
> with BIOS that has support for Booting from USB. If you check
> the Properties of the device (Policies), you'll notice that the "Fixed"
> disk option "Enable Write Caching" isn't present.
>
> "Code_Slinger" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2BC6E27A-CF5B-4056-B44E-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run
>>Windows
>>XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my
>>system
>>to boot from the external drive?
>>
>>
>>--
>>Thank You From A Grateful User
>
>
>

Does that mean XP can boot from an external drive if the BIOS supports
booting from USB Devices?

If the motherboard supports booting from a USB-HDD you can boot your machine
to DOS from the external drive but in my experience not to Windows (WinMe
and WinXP, don't know about Win98 and Win95). I suspect Windows is coded to
prevent booting from anything other than a fixed disk.

There are some who have said they can boot into WINXP from an external drive
but have never said how to do it so I suspect their claims are an
'exaggeration'.


"Rock" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> R. McCarty wrote:
>
>> Windows XP is designed, so that it will not install/run from any
>> drive marked as "Removable". However, you would need a PC
>> with BIOS that has support for Booting from USB. If you check
>> the Properties of the device (Policies), you'll notice that the "Fixed"
>> disk option "Enable Write Caching" isn't present.
>>
>> "Code_Slinger" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:2BC6E27A-CF5B-4056-B44E-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run
>>>Windows
>>>XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my
>>>system
>>>to boot from the external drive?
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Thank You From A Grateful User
>>
>>
>>
>
> Does that mean XP can boot from an external drive if the BIOS supports
> booting from USB Devices?
>

=?Utf-8?B?Q29kZV9TbGluZ2Vy?= wrote:
>
> I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run Windows
> XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my system
> to boot from the external drive?

Can you install XP fresh to the external HDD?

The short answer is no. The installation starts OK and the files appear to
be copied to the external drive (uisb-hdd) but when the machine comes to
reboot it gives rise to an error message. Before anyone responds, my
motherboard will boot directly to a usb-hdd and it was made the first boot
device.

Interestingly a similar result occurs when trying to instal WINME to the
usb-hdd. I would like to try WIN98 but I trashed my WIN98 disk in error as
I though my WIN98SE disk was the full version but as it turned out it was
the 'SE update'. :-(.


"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
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> =?Utf-8?B?Q29kZV9TbGluZ2Vy?= wrote:
>>
>> I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run
>> Windows
>> XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my
>> system
>> to boot from the external drive?
>
> Can you install XP fresh to the external HDD?
>
>

Edward W. Thompson wrote:
>
> The short answer is no. The installation starts OK and the files appear to

Hmm, I didnt' think so. I believe XP wants to run/boot from an internal
drive.

> be copied to the external drive (uisb-hdd) but when the machine comes to
> reboot it gives rise to an error message. Before anyone responds, my
> motherboard will boot directly to a usb-hdd and it was made the first boot
> device.
>
> Interestingly a similar result occurs when trying to instal WINME to the
> usb-hdd. I would like to try WIN98 but I trashed my WIN98 disk in error as
> I though my WIN98SE disk was the full version but as it turned out it was
> the 'SE update'. :-(.
>
> >> I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run
> >> Windows
> >> XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my
> >> system
> >> to boot from the external drive?
> >
> > Can you install XP fresh to the external HDD?

"Plato" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?Q29kZV9TbGluZ2Vy?= wrote:
> >
> > I bought an external hard drive USB 2.0 (80GB) and would like to run Windows
> > XP and everything esle on this external hard drive. How can I get my system
> > to boot from the external drive?
>
> Can you install XP fresh to the external HDD?


> I tried and I can't install a fresh copy of XP on the external drive
>
>