Booting from external drive

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by rbaker, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. rbaker

    rbaker Private E-2

    Hello everyone. I have a question about booting my computer from an external drive. Is it possible? I have an external drive E: that has Win XP Pro operating system on it. It is a full backup from another computer. How would I go about having the computer boot from the E: drive rather than the C: drive? The present C: drive also is booting from Win XP Pro. I would appreciate any input. I hope I gave you enough information.

    Thanks

    Spab
     
    rbaker, Aug 5, 2008
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  2. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

    You need to look in the BIOS to see if it allows booting from a USB device.
     
    plodr, Aug 6, 2008
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  3. rbaker

    rbaker Private E-2

    Plodr, Thanks for the reply. How would I go about checking BIOS? When I am in BIOS what wection would the pertinent information be located?

    spab
     
    rbaker, Aug 6, 2008
    #3

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