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Angry Blue Bird of Death
2009-01-14, 07:14
Is there any way to install a bootable Windows XP on a USB External HD?
Yea if your BIOS or BIOS upgrade allows booting from a USB drive,
For XP look here
http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
For Vista look around on this site
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=174858
And here is a utility to make a flash drive bootable.
http://www.megaleecher.net/taxonomy/term/2529
R. Kelly
2009-01-14, 17:50
Yea if your BIOS or BIOS upgrade allows booting from a USB drive,
For XP look here
http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
For Vista look around on this site
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=174858
And here is a utility to make a flash drive bootable.
http://www.megaleecher.net/taxonomy/term/2529
This.
Just make sure you go into the bios and set the flash drive as the primary boot device and the HDD as second.
For me my boot order is CD > Flash Drive > HDD Floppy is disabled. Doing it this way assures success when booting into something els then your primary HDD.
I've done this before using Barts PE builder, here's a tutorial:
http://theos.in/windows-xp/howto-install-windows-xp-on-a-usb-flash-or-pen-drive/
However, theres another method I use now for Linux distros. Should work for XP as well though.
Download a program called uNetBootin, it will set everything up for you:
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html