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Can I Boot From An External Hdd? by technobayo(m): 8:03pm On Jun 29, 2009
My present laptop's (Dell inspiron E1505) been showing signs of failure lately n i have an external hard drive of 160gb. I'd like to know if it's possible for me to instal an O.S. (Vista) on the external harddrive then boot from it.
Re: Can I Boot From An External Hdd? by suni(m): 9:52am On Jun 30, 2009
nothing is impossible wink , if you can do it or you let me!!!!
Re: Can I Boot From An External Hdd? by mobbi06(m): 12:13pm On Jul 02, 2009
ofcourse you can, that is if your BIOS ROM supports loading an operating system from a USB device.
Re: Can I Boot From An External Hdd? by chrizfasa(m): 9:35pm On Jul 02, 2009
just make the external your second boot and ur CD or DVD drive the first and disable the SATA under the bios setup
you can still call me if you don't understand it.my

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