Boot from an USB HDD

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Andrei Branes

Hello

I want to install Windows XP on a USB hdd and than boot
from it. Is it possible?

I tried installing directly on the drive from a XP CD ,
but I got a blue screen after the first boot.
I have souport for booting from a hdd in my bios.
I got an Acer TravelMate 233LC Laptop.

Thank you.
 
If the computer bios does not support booting from a USB hard drive, you
can't do it - period!
 
But I wrote I DO have this option to boot from USB hdd.
And still it doesnt work.
 
Andrei Branes said:
I want to install Windows XP on a USB hdd and than boot
from it. Is it possible?

I tried installing directly on the drive from a XP CD ,
but I got a blue screen after the first boot.
I have souport for booting from a hdd in my bios.
I got an Acer TravelMate 233LC Laptop.
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Andrei,

I've heard of IDE to USB adapters. Not sure whether they would
help you though, as it is a bit difficult to get at the IDE port
in a laptop. Just wanted to mention it anyway.

Hans-Georg
 
not, that you could boot from a USB HDD.

However, except for XPe, I don't think you can boot XP from a USB device. I
don't think USBSTORE.SYS supports Int13 handoff or paging. You might be
semi successful by trying to enter Safe Mode, but you would not have a
stable system. Even XPe would actually be booting from a RAM disk created
and loaded by a special option that I don't think XP has.

Marc Reinig
System Solutions
 
You said you could boot from a hard drive. Any computer can.

You did NOT say that your bios would allow you to choose to boot from a
"USB" hard drive, an entirely different animal!
 
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