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Can I use an External hard drive as main and boot with no internal hard drive?

Thread starter claydster6
Start date Apr 5, 2015

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claydster6

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Apr 5, 2015

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Is it possible to install windows 8.1 on an usb external hard drive without having an internal hard drive? Could it be used as the main and boot hdd?

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Not really no. Nor would you want to.

It is theoretically possible, with a LOT of work, but it would be disastrously slow.

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Not really no. Nor would you want to.

It is theoretically possible, with a LOT of work, but it would be disastrously slow.

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