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Can XP Pro run on external/USB drive?

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Justin Little - 28 Mar 2006 03:56 GMT
Hello,

Currently I have XP Home running on my little laptop which I use for
developing ASP.Net websites.  That's fine because I publish to an IIS Server
at my clients' ISPs.

But now I'm looking to start using IIS on my laptop and for that I need to
run XP Pro.  However, I don't want to kill my existing XP Home environment
that's already set up on my laptop (I've been using it for nearly a year and
I just can't contemplate reinstalling all the software I use).

So I'm wondering if it's possible to install XP Pro on an external USB drive
that I can plug in and dual-boot?

Any ideas or information would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Justin
Carey Frisch  [MVP] - 28 Mar 2006 04:25 GMT
Windows XP Pro can only be installed on
an "internal hard drive".

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> Hello,
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> Cheers,
> Justin
janfeb - 30 Mar 2006 08:37 GMT
first u have to turn on mother board.most are made to go on from floppy or cd
or hdd.dam few are made to be started from usb ! but i'v heard they
exst.floppys
that turn on pc load rivers for cd rom.i'v heard there are floppys that
start pc & load drivers for usb.i havn't seen 1 yet.i have a external hard
drive.it had windows on it.wins only looked like a folder.when u open it u
just see a list of stuff that makes up wins.nothing usefull.then i formated
the external drive.no wins.but my
books can be read.and files moved around.

> Hello,
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> Cheers,
> Justin
 
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