External Hard Drive Boot??

[DavidF]

These forums have been very helpful in the past, so I come
to you again with a question that has me stumped: I want
to add an external firewire/USB connected hard drive and
keep all my personal stuff there, and leave my C drive for
work. My C drive has Win98SE, but I want the external to
hold XP and Office XP or 2003. Any ideas on how this
could be done? Everytime I start up, I could hit the BIOS
and change the boot order, but I don't think an "F" or
whatever drive is selectable in a boot order menu -
just "hard drive" "floppy" or "CD". Absent this solution,
anyone know of a laptop with the hard drive in a bay that
I could swap in and out for a 2nd hard drive like a
CD/floppy bay? Thanks!!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows XP can only be successfully installed on an internal
hard drive. External drives are designed strictly for file storage.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
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| These forums have been very helpful in the past, so I come
| to you again with a question that has me stumped: I want
| to add an external firewire/USB connected hard drive and
| keep all my personal stuff there, and leave my C drive for
| work. My C drive has Win98SE, but I want the external to
| hold XP and Office XP or 2003. Any ideas on how this
| could be done? Everytime I start up, I could hit the BIOS
| and change the boot order, but I don't think an "F" or
| whatever drive is selectable in a boot order menu -
| just "hard drive" "floppy" or "CD". Absent this solution,
| anyone know of a laptop with the hard drive in a bay that
| I could swap in and out for a 2nd hard drive like a
| CD/floppy bay? Thanks!!

 

[Guest]

Carey

Thanks for the reply. I'm still looking for a laptop with the main (C hard drive in a bay I can swap out. Please write back if you know of any. I've already gotten "no"s from IBM and Dell.