>please
>there is anyone setup windows xp on USB hard drive????
>if yes, can you inform me how please.
>thank.
Not sure you can.
I think you have to have Windows running for the OS to recognize a USB
drive. I suppose that's possible with Windows Setup.
I'm pretty sure though, for that to work at all, your BIOS will have to
recognize a USB drive FIRST; so it knows to boot from it.
So, if your BIOS doesn't offer "USB" as a boot option (and I cannot
remember one that does; SATA, CD-ROM, Floppy, SCSI, and IDE being the
"normal" set of bootable options), then you probably cannot boot;
therefore you'd have to have some other drive as boot-drive.
It *might* be possible to set up a CD-ROM or Floppy as the boot-drive,
that would then switch over to the USB drive, once the USB driver was
loaded; but I'm not sure how that would be accomplished.
;-{
Hmmm ... Seems I'm wrong. More "modern" computer motherboards than mine
*do* seem to be capable of booting from a USB drive. http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...6-5928902.html
However, you have to make ****ed sure the motherboard you have or have
in mind to buy actually *has* that capability.
If not, then to make it work you'd have to get another or different
motherboard.
On Apr 28, 8:08Â*pm, Frank McCoy <mcc...@millcomm.com> wrote:
> In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt fidow...@gmail.com wrote:
> >please
> >there is anyone setup windows xp on USB hard drive????
> >if yes, can you inform me how please.
> >thank.
>
> Not sure you can.
> I think you have to have Windows running for the OS to recognize a USB
> drive. Â*I suppose that's possible with Windows Setup.
>
> I'm pretty sure though, for that to work at all, your BIOS will have to
> recognize a USB drive FIRST; so it knows to boot from it.
>
> So, if your BIOS doesn't offer "USB" as a boot option (and I cannot
> remember one that does; SATA, CD-ROM, Floppy, SCSI, and IDE being the
> "normal" set of bootable options), then you probably cannot boot;
> therefore you'd have to have some other drive as boot-drive.
>
> It *might* be possible to set up a CD-ROM or Floppy as the boot-drive,
> that would then switch over to the USB drive, once the USB driver was
> loaded; but I'm not sure how that would be accomplished.
> ;-{
>
> Hmmm ... Seems I'm wrong. Â*More "modern" computer motherboards than mine
> *do* seem to be capable of booting from a USB drive.http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...6-5928902.html
> However, you have to make ****ed sure the motherboard you have or have
> in mind to buy actually *has* that capability.
>
> If not, then to make it work you'd have to get another or different
> motherboard.
>
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hi
my BIOS offer "USB" as a boot option ( being the
"normal" set of bootable options),
usb hard 
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