This is by no means a "fact"!

Whether or not you can boot from a USB source depends on the PC's BIOS and is not
some sort of "golden rule".

Just because most PCs are not able to, still doesn't mean you are right in saying
that...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Peter Foldes" wrote in message
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You cannot boot from an external USB drive or any external drive. Your computer guy
was correct in advising you

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Peter

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"Patti Barden" wrote in message
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Running XP Sp3, OE6, IE8
I recently bought an external hard disk which is attached to my desktop pc with
USB.
I also have a program called Acronis which is supposed to copy or clone, backup,
etc.
It has you create a Bootable Rescue Media Builder which I put on a USB key.

My idea was to copy my entire pc disk to the external hard disk and then
periodically
back it up and if my pc went (it is old) I could restart from my external hard
disk.

In talking with a guy who owns a computer shop, he tells me I cannot reboot from a
USB. He insists that is the case. If so I have been wasting a lot of time trying
to
insure I don't have to reinstall everything or lose my data.

Perhaps I should just copy my data and figure I will have to reinstall all the
programs,
settings, etc.?
I am getting more confused.
Patti