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Booting from External HDD

  • 14-11-2007 6:30pm
    #1
    PDD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    I was wondering if anyone here has had experience of booting windows from an external HDD. I want to put an installation of windows on a 2.5" external HDD that I have and have my PC boot off that.

    Also does anyone know that if I boot using this mechanism is there any way I can have Windows not pickup on the internal HDD for the host PC?

    Regards,

    Dave


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,604 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    look at BartPE it's as close as you will get

    your BIOS must support removable drives and the only ways to hide drives from windows are to disable the hard drive drive in the BIOS. YOu could set the partition to hidden but you would have to use a non-winodws OS as otherwise there is a chance windows would give your existing drive a new letter with all the fun and games that implies . Booting up on another computer would be probmematic at best due to different drivers - computer type and hard disk controller being the main ones, and even if it did boot windows would need activation and each computer would need the same windows license (actually it's worse that that for the license as vista does not allow you to install on a separate partition never mind drive)


  • #3
    PDD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭PDD


    Cheers for the feedback Capt, is it just me or does Windows get gayer and gayer by the day? Honestly you would swear that neither OS-X or Ubuntu is any kind of threat to them.


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