noob booting from USB hard drive

[Nick_Orwin]

I just got a new USB hard drive and would like to be able to be able to install windows onto it and boot from it.
A fiend of mine told me it was possible, and that there was a thread here about it, but I have been unable to find it. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Hard drive is: Seagate 320GB external hard drive

 

[Guest]

Does your motherboard support booting from USB devices? If not, you're SOL.

Grumpy

 

[Nick_Orwin]

I can't find anything in my manual about it, but in my boot options in the setup it does let me pick the drive to boot from, but when i go to install windows it tells me that it doesn't have access so it can't install

 

[bb1ood]

Never tried this but this link should help:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/09/windows_in_your_pocket/

A usb hard drive should act like a flash drive as far as windows is concerned...of course, you wouldn't need to shrink down the install in your case.

good luck..

 

[Guest]

What is the exact make and model of motherboard?

Grumpy

 

[Nick_Orwin]

Thank you bb1ood ill give it a try

And the model of my mother board is K8NF6G-VSTA

 

[Guest]

The manual doesn't state whether you can boot from a USB drive. You need to check the Hard Drive boot priority in the BIOS.

Grumpy

 

[Nick_Orwin]

Brilliant thats it, the bios has let me select and its booting. Thank you very much!