and there's a Vista installation on the external hard drive, then yes, you can boot using Vista on an external hard drive. however, does it mean that it will actually boot automatically? Meaning if I turn on my laptop with XP and that boots, then add my external...

a Vista Home Premium environment. I press F12 at startup and select the external drive for boot purposes. I use Acronis True Image Home to clone the internal drive to the external drive but I can't get the laptop to boot from the external drive. What else...

Linux Gurus - A question about booting from external drive. I have a Dell Latitude D600 with a meager 40gb hardrive. I currently dual boot Centos (Enterprise edition of Linux) and Windows XP. The 40gb is filled to the brim and I have no room for anything...

drive and reinstall Win XP Professional. How could I boot up from this external drive to reinstall XP from DOS. Or any suggestions as to how I could reinstall XP from my external drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I have...

I need to format my hard drive and reinstall Win XP Professional. >>How could I boot up from this external drive to reinstall XP from DOS. Or >any suggestions as to how I could reinstall XP from my external drive> 1. To be able to boot from and external...

Good point - just one more time can I mention that it's not >external that is the criteria - but removable. There has been > SCSI and now SATA-IO "External" drives that can support > XP installation &booting. >> "Anna" wrote in message > news:emCu4clqFHA.908...

like to do it with the external drive. The motherboard has a via km400 chipset, is an Aopen MK77M-8XN. The burner is a Nec 3500A oem in a Vantec case, I know the Vantec might have its own usb2 driver. Everything works except the ability to boot off the external...

the >external hd my primary boot drive with xp so i can operate > the printshop 20 to work on my photos You will have to set boot device to USB in your system BIOS if you really want to do this, then install XP on the external drive. I'd suggest you...

like to do it with the external drive. The motherboard has a via km400 chipset, is an Aopen MK77M-8XN. The burner is a Nec 3500A oem in a Vantec case, I know the Vantec might have its own usb2 driver. Everything works except the ability to boot off the external...

like to do it with the external drive. The motherboard has a via km400 chipset, is an Aopen MK77M-8XN. The burner is a Nec 3500A oem in a Vantec case, I know the Vantec might have its own usb2 driver. Everything works except the ability to boot off the external...