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 2009-01-14, 07:14 |
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With you. Behind a lead pipe.
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 Installing Windows XP on External Harddrive?
Is there any way to install a bootable Windows XP on a USB External HD?
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#2
2009-01-14, 07:52 |
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Re: Installing Windows XP on External Harddrive?
Yea if your BIOS or BIOS upgrade allows booting from a USB drive,
For XP look here
http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
For Vista look around on this site
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=174858
And here is a utility to make a flash drive bootable.
http://www.megaleecher.net/taxonomy/term/2529
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#3
2009-01-14, 17:50 |
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Re: Installing Windows XP on External Harddrive?
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Originally Posted by SWATFAG
Yea if your BIOS or BIOS upgrade allows booting from a USB drive,
For XP look here
http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
For Vista look around on this site
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=174858
And here is a utility to make a flash drive bootable.
http://www.megaleecher.net/taxonomy/term/2529
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This.
Just make sure you go into the bios and set the flash drive as the primary boot device and the HDD as second.
For me my boot order is CD > Flash Drive > HDD Floppy is disabled. Doing it this way assures success when booting into something els then your primary HDD. |
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#4
2009-01-14, 18:18 |
wargsm 
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Re: Installing Windows XP on External Harddrive?
I've done this before using Barts PE builder, here's a tutorial:
http://theos.in/windows-xp/howto-install-windows-xp-on-a-usb-flash-or-pen-drive/
However, theres another method I use now for Linux distros. Should work for XP as well though.
Download a program called uNetBootin, it will set everything up for you:
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html
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