Dule boot from an external drive

David.Anthony · Aug 18, 2007

Hi I am running Vista on my home pc and use 3 external hard drives is it
possable to install XP on one of them and how can I boot from That drive (
the dreves are usb) Thanks

Dave · Aug 18, 2007

No, Windows won't boot from an external USB drive, although there are hacks
to boot from a USB flash drive.
You could try MS Virtual PC 2007, and boot XP on a virtual drive.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/579633-installing-xp-after-vista-external.html

Dule boot from an external drive

David.Anthony

Dave