Vista and USB mass device

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I am looking for information on making a USB 160gig hard drive bootable. I
support "road warriors" aka sales personal. I want to take a image or mirror
of their working laptop hard drive and copy it to a usb hard drive. so that
if their main hard drive dies while they are on the road, they can still be
productive while i am overnighting them a new imaged replacement hard drive.
The usb hard drive model I am using is
Http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=262&language=en
and has a nice backup program which will allow you to send and recevie
e-mails and retrieve your outlook calendar but does not boot up unless there
is a working OS on the laptop hard drive. Does anyone know of a fix ?
I have tried all the "web fixes" for XP and understand that XP does not
support this. My main question is does Vista support this procedure.
 
Hi Corwyn,

No, Vista does not support this anymore than XP did.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 

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