Drive letters are assigned during the boot, in order.
message | And if you do it that way, what might the drive letters
be??? I'd imagine
| some more (a lot) trouble....
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| Tumppi
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| "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm>
kirjoitti viestissä
| | > You might install the drive internally, install XP and
then
| > put the drive back in the external box. Seems like a
lot of
| > work for little benefit.
| >
| >
| > | > | Tumppi,
| > |
| > | Thanks for the reply. So there is no way to install
xp
| > on the external
| > | drive? I understand the concept that the drive might
not
| > always be there,
| > | but it will be if I boot from it. Any way around this
| > install feature of xp?
| > |
| > | Jake
| > |
| > message
| > | | > | > Xp can't/won't install itself on ANY removable
| > device....
| > | > It has something to do with the requirement for a
| > swapfile or something
| > | > like
| > | > that to be ALWAYS available, which a removable disk
per
| > definition is
| > | > not....
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > Tumppi
| > | > Reply to group
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| > | > Most learned on nntp://news.mircosoft.com
| > | > Helsinki, Finland (remove _NOSPAM)
| > | > (translations from FI/SE not always accurate)
| > | > =================================================
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > "jake" <
[email protected]> kirjoitti viestissä
| > | > | > | >> Hello,
| > | >>
| > | >> I have a removeable usb hard drive I would like
to
| > be able to boot
| > | > from
| > | >> should the need arise. I can see the hard drive and
set
| > it up to be a
| > | >> boot
| > | >> drive from CMOS. The problem I have now is how to
| > install windows xp on
| > | > this
| > | >> drive to make it a bootable drive. When I change
CMOS
| > to boot from the
| > | >> removeable drive and insert the windows xp cd it
only
| > recognizes the
| > | >> local
| > | > c
| > | >> drive in the box. I want to format the external usb
| > drive and make it
| > | >> bootable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I
am
| > looking to put
| > | >> WindowsXP Pro on it. Thanks.
| > | >>
| > | >> Jake
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
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| >
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