And if you do it that way, what might the drive letters be??? I'd imagine
some more (a lot) trouble....


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"Jim Macklin" kirjoitti viestissä
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You might install the drive internally, install XP and then
put the drive back in the external box. Seems like a lot of
work for little benefit.


"jake" wrote in message
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| Tumppi,
|
| Thanks for the reply. So there is no way to install xp
on the external
| drive? I understand the concept that the drive might not
always be there,
| but it will be if I boot from it. Any way around this
install feature of xp?
|
| Jake
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| "Thomas Wendell" wrote in
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| Xp can't/won't install itself on ANY removable
device....
| It has something to do with the requirement for a
swapfile or something
| like
| that to be ALWAYS available, which a removable disk per
definition is
| not....
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| "jake" kirjoitti viestissä
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| Hello,
|
| I have a removeable usb hard drive I would like to
be able to boot
| from
| should the need arise. I can see the hard drive and set
it up to be a
| boot
| drive from CMOS. The problem I have now is how to
install windows xp on
| this
| drive to make it a bootable drive. When I change CMOS
to boot from the
| removeable drive and insert the windows xp cd it only
recognizes the
| local
| c
| drive in the box. I want to format the external usb
drive and make it
| bootable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am
looking to put
| WindowsXP Pro on it. Thanks.
|
| Jake
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