Booting Windows XP or Vista from an external USB drive

[Tony]

Is it possible to boot Windows XP or Windows Vista from an external USB
drive? I have tried on Vista and when it gets to the part of the install
where it reboots I get a blue screen with a Stop 0x0000007b error. I have
tried searching on the web with mixed results.

Thanks much,

Tony

[ByTor]

In article >, ,
Tony says...

> Is it possible to boot Windows XP or Windows Vista from an external USB
> drive? I have tried on Vista and when it gets to the part of the install
> where it reboots I get a blue screen with a Stop 0x0000007b error. I have
> tried searching on the web with mixed results.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Tony
>
>
>

No.........At the moment, I feel anyway, Vista is not even worth fooling
around with....I just wiped it off a machine......... ;0(

[Kevin]

I believe that it is not possible to boot XP (or Vista aka Longhorn) from
any type of external device.

"Tony" > wrote in message
...
> Is it possible to boot Windows XP or Windows Vista from an external USB
> drive? I have tried on Vista and when it gets to the part of the install
> where it reboots I get a blue screen with a Stop 0x0000007b error. I have
> tried searching on the web with mixed results.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Tony
>
>

[Harry Ohrn]

Nope can't be done.

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Tony" > wrote in message
...
> Is it possible to boot Windows XP or Windows Vista from an external USB
> drive? I have tried on Vista and when it gets to the part of the install
> where it reboots I get a blue screen with a Stop 0x0000007b error. I have
> tried searching on the web with mixed results.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Tony
>
>