Boot from USB hard drive

[Richard Walker]

Windows XP Pro.

I have been unsuccessful in booting from a USB 2.0
attached hard drive. The bios recognizes the usb drive as
a regular hard drive, not a removable drive, and allows
the operating system to be loaded onto the usb drive but
when it reaches the point of rebooting it hangs and will
not complete the booting process. Does anyone have a
method of loading the operating system on a USB connected
hard drive?

Thanks.

[D.Currie]

"Richard Walker" > wrote in message
...
> Windows XP Pro.
>
> I have been unsuccessful in booting from a USB 2.0
> attached hard drive. The bios recognizes the usb drive as
> a regular hard drive, not a removable drive, and allows
> the operating system to be loaded onto the usb drive but
> when it reaches the point of rebooting it hangs and will
> not complete the booting process. Does anyone have a
> method of loading the operating system on a USB connected
> hard drive?
>
> Thanks.

Whether it's possible or not depends on if the bios allows booting from a
usb device or not, as that's what's in control at boot time.