On 03/01/2006 "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
>Windows can only be installed on an internal drive.
>External drives are designed for file storage only.
>

Not completely true! You can only install Windows XP successfully onto an
External SCSI or SATA hard drive since these are still considered/behave as
internal drives. USB and Firewire drives need the enhanced hot-swap drivers,
which seem to cause the problem of not allowing Windows XP to be
installed/booted from these types of external drivers.


It has been previous posted, here in this newsgroup, that people have gotten
XP to boot successfully off an USB drive, but only after coping a "known"
working internal IDE drive.


Also, since Vista is still in development (I have not used it yet.), this
"restriction" of installing onto USB/Firewire drives may still be there.

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