External hard drive to boot up from laptop

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Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to load XP on an external hard drive
for a laptop and then when the computer boots up you can redirect it to use
the external hard drive?

How can I do this? Thanks for your help in advance
 
mike said:
Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to load XP on an external hard drive
for a laptop and then when the computer boots up you can redirect it to use
the external hard drive?

How can I do this? Thanks for your help in advance
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Does the BIOS of your laptop permit the booting from external devices?
 
Here is what I am after. My corporate computer has some security controls
like not allowing active x etc... What I want to do is use the alt hard
drive to run my programs without the security control running?

I need to load a program and my laptop does not allow it with the corp
settings. I figured I could load it on the external hard drive and maybe run
it from there?

Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks
Mike
 
mike said:
Here is what I am after. My corporate computer has some security controls
like not allowing active x etc... What I want to do is use the alt hard
drive to run my programs without the security control running?

I need to load a program and my laptop does not allow it with the corp
settings. I figured I could load it on the external hard drive and maybe run
it from there?

Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks
Mike
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Talk to your IT Support people and see if they will remove the
restrictions in your particular case.
 
Nothing. The security settings are enforced by the operating system and your
IT department. The fact that you load and run a program from an external
drive is not going to change this fact.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
No. External drives are designed for file storage
and backups only.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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| Hi,
|
| I would like to know if it is possible to load XP on an external hard drive
| for a laptop and then when the computer boots up you can redirect it to use
| the external hard drive?
|
| How can I do this? Thanks for your help in advance
| --
| Mike B
 
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