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Old 09-05-2004, 05:34 PM
CozmoXP CozmoXP is offline
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

Right now you can NOT boot Windows from a USB hard drive. If your BIOS does happen to support booting from USB disks, windows still does not. You can start an installation that way, and even think it is going to work, but when Windows XP starts to boot you'll get a bluescreen (7b, inaccessible boot device).

I'm not exactly sure why you'd really want to anyway, since USB disks are much slower than IDE.
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