Drive letters are assigned during the boot, in order.


"Thomas Wendell" wrote in
message ...
| 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
| ...
| 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.
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| "jake" wrote in message
| ...
| | 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
| |
| | "Thomas Wendell" wrote in
| message
| | ...
| | 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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