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Can I install a new OS (Windows) on external disk drive istead of and internal? Becuase I don't want to buy a new disk drive just to do that....
 
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Depends on what PC you have. Please list your PC specs and details on what type of external drive you want to use. As long as your PC's bios allows you to boot off an external drive such as a USB drive and that drive is big enough then it should technically work if you set it up right. If your problem is that you don't have a hard drive but you do have an external HDD with an enclosure, you can always remove that HDD from the enclosure and install it as an internal HDD if you have a SATA data cable. That is all an external HDD is.
 
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I am going to build a whole new PC. Part for part. So I am going to buy a new SSD (Main drive).
 
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ALL of my PC specs:
Intel Core i5-4690K
Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Toxic
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Corsair DDR3 16GB 1600MHz LP
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB OEM SSD (Where the OS should be installed)
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (For Storage)
Corsair CX 750M
In Win GRone Big Tower
Microsoft Windows 8.1
 
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