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Old 21-Sep-2004, 09:06
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I need to boot a computer off an external USB2 hard drive, anyone able to give me any help?
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So far as I know, as long as your BIOS is set up to allow it, it shouldn't be a problem. I don't think it would be very different than using a USB keyring drive. Just make sure you have a boot file on the drive.
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I forgot to mention it was winows XP on the drive.
it wont work because of microsofts anti piracy crap.
A pirated version of XP is probably better to have.
i will just have to install linux on it now.

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