WILL MICROSOFT PLEASE CLARIFY?

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Vista does not support usb booting. The Vista team has told us (TechBeta)
that several times and there are some url's explaining why. Essentially the
Vista team lists usb booting as "being closely looked at for a future
release of Windows." The holdup has to do with international standards
which are still in development. The problem is the usb bus.
 
I still have a pcmcia drive with a bootable Windows NT on it. Unfortunately
the BIOS support of Thinkpads after the 600 removed the bootable pcmcia
option. It was a very useful capability. Then there's always BartPE to make
up for that...
 
I use an ExpressCard to attach a SATA external drive to one of my laptops
and I assume that also works. Both ExpressCard and pcmcia connect to the
PCI bus and so should boot the system if the BIOS is set up right. Anything
on the PCI bus should boot fine.
 
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