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please
there is anyone setup windows xp on USB hard drive????
if yes, can you inform me how please.
thank.
 
In said:
please
there is anyone setup windows xp on USB hard drive????
if yes, can you inform me how please.
thank.
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Not sure you can.
I think you have to have Windows running for the OS to recognize a USB
drive. I suppose that's possible with Windows Setup.

I'm pretty sure though, for that to work at all, your BIOS will have to
recognize a USB drive FIRST; so it knows to boot from it.

So, if your BIOS doesn't offer "USB" as a boot option (and I cannot
remember one that does; SATA, CD-ROM, Floppy, SCSI, and IDE being the
"normal" set of bootable options), then you probably cannot boot;
therefore you'd have to have some other drive as boot-drive.

It *might* be possible to set up a CD-ROM or Floppy as the boot-drive,
that would then switch over to the USB drive, once the USB driver was
loaded; but I'm not sure how that would be accomplished.
;-{

Hmmm ... Seems I'm wrong. More "modern" computer motherboards than mine
*do* seem to be capable of booting from a USB drive.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6346-5928902.html
However, you have to make damned sure the motherboard you have or have
in mind to buy actually *has* that capability.

If not, then to make it work you'd have to get another or different
motherboard.
 
Not sure you can.
I think you have to have Windows running for the OS to recognize a USB
drive.  I suppose that's possible with Windows Setup.

I'm pretty sure though, for that to work at all, your BIOS will have to
recognize a USB drive FIRST; so it knows to boot from it.

So, if your BIOS doesn't offer "USB" as a boot option (and I cannot
remember one that does; SATA, CD-ROM, Floppy, SCSI, and IDE being the
"normal" set of bootable options), then you probably cannot boot;
therefore you'd have to have some other drive as boot-drive.

It *might* be possible to set up a CD-ROM or Floppy as the boot-drive,
that would then switch over to the USB drive, once the USB driver was
loaded; but I'm not sure how that would be accomplished.
;-{

Hmmm ... Seems I'm wrong.  More "modern" computer motherboards than mine
*do* seem to be capable of booting from a USB drive.http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6346-5928902.html
However, you have to make damned sure the motherboard you have or have
in mind to buy actually *has* that capability.

If not, then to make it work you'd have to get another or different
motherboard.

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hi
my BIOS offer "USB" as a boot option ( being the
"normal" set of bootable options),
 
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