Install XP to USB drive / boot to NTFS USB?

[JJW±]

Can XP or W2K3S be installed to an external USB drive?
I get stop 0x7b, so far - (no descriptive error message though)

Is there any way I can format the external USB drive NTFS & make it
bootable? would WinPE work?

 

[Guest]

It could but why,the IDE cables give direct access to the board,goin
thru a usb connection doesnt sound practical.Youll defiently have to configur
it in the BIOS.

 

[Guest]

Most motherboards don't support booting from USB devices, so if your idea is to carry aroun
your own system and boot it from other computers, I think you will be disappointed. Also, I believ
that USB, although it is a motherboard device, needs Windows drivers to be recognized, thus they do no
show in the clean DOS-like install enviornment. Beside that, USB is very slow compared to IDE
Jeff

 

[JJW±]

I have configured it in the BIOS
-- it will start to load Windows XP (to finish the install)
-- then I get stop 0x7B

I want a bootable NTFS USB drive - I do not particularly care which OS: XP,
W2K3S, WinPE

 

[Pavel A.]

Can XP or W2K3S be installed to an external USB drive?
No.

Is there any way I can format the external USB drive NTFS & make it
bootable? would WinPE work?

Current WinPE versions can't boot from USB.

--PA