I was windering if it is possible to boot from a portible external Hard drive
connected via USB 2.0?

I wanted to have a operating system partition and a data partition on the
External hard drive and be able to plug the external HD into any computer and
boot off it.

Is this possible?

"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:32E92319-8CC1-4E0B-AE32-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I was windering if it is possible to boot from a portible external Hard
drive
> connected via USB 2.0?
>
> I wanted to have a operating system partition and a data partition on the
> External hard drive and be able to plug the external HD into any computer
and
> boot off it.
>
> Is this possible?

AFAIK, you cannot boot from an external device.

Can you configure an CD that has a Windows Operating sys on it and all the
necessary drivers to boot up on any computer?

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:32E92319-8CC1-4E0B-AE32-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I was windering if it is possible to boot from a portible external Hard
> drive
> > connected via USB 2.0?
> >
> > I wanted to have a operating system partition and a data partition on the
> > External hard drive and be able to plug the external HD into any computer
> and
> > boot off it.
> >
> > Is this possible?
>
> AFAIK, you cannot boot from an external device.
>
>
>

Yes, you can, and it's a terrific tool for system maintenance.
It's a Bart PE Boot CD, and the tools to make one are
available from www.bootdisk.com. You will need a CD
burner and a WinXP Professional CD (but no licence number!).


"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can you configure an CD that has a Windows Operating sys on it and all the
> necessary drivers to boot up on any computer?
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> >
> > "Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:32E92319-8CC1-4E0B-AE32-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I was windering if it is possible to boot from a portible external
Hard
> > drive
> > > connected via USB 2.0?
> > >
> > > I wanted to have a operating system partition and a data partition on
the
> > > External hard drive and be able to plug the external HD into any
computer
> > and
> > > boot off it.
> > >
> > > Is this possible?
> >
> > AFAIK, you cannot boot from an external device.
> >
> >
> >

booting from a USB device is dependant on the BIOS of the system, and
whether it allows it....



"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I was windering if it is possible to boot from a portible external Hard
>drive
> connected via USB 2.0?
>
> I wanted to have a operating system partition and a data partition on the
> External hard drive and be able to plug the external HD into any computer
> and
> boot off it.
>
> Is this possible?

It also depends on whether the operating sys provides capability to boot
from "removable devices". Windows doesn't.

j9 wrote:

> booting from a USB device is dependant on the BIOS of the system, and
> whether it allows it....
>
>
>
> "Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:32E92319-8CC1-4E0B-AE32-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>I was windering if it is possible to boot from a portible external Hard
>>drive
>>connected via USB 2.0?
>>
>>I wanted to have a operating system partition and a data partition on the
>>External hard drive and be able to plug the external HD into any computer
>>and
>>boot off it.
>>
>>Is this possible?
>
>
>