Installing Win XP on an external drive
 

Hello
I have a laptop hard drive that I want to install Win XP on it for a laptop.
I have a USB to IDE cable.
The hard drive is recognized in My Computer.
I can format it. When I put the OS cd in the drive , it wants to install it
on my desktop hard drive.
Can I install this on Drive F instead of on Drive C
TIA
ron

Re: Installing Win XP on an external drive
 

"Ronald Murray" <ethel@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote in message
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> Hello
> I have a laptop hard drive that I want to install Win XP on it for a
> laptop. I have a USB to IDE cable.
> The hard drive is recognized in My Computer.
> I can format it. When I put the OS cd in the drive , it wants to install
> it on my desktop hard drive.
> Can I install this on Drive F instead of on Drive C
> TIA
> ron

No. Windows doesn't like it when you try to install it on external drives.
It wants to be on the primary partition designated as the C drive.


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Re: Installing Win XP on an external drive
 

"Kevin" <webman6@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Ronald Murray" <ethel@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote in message
> news:E9CGj.515$9X3.99@edtnps82...
>> Hello
>> I have a laptop hard drive that I want to install Win XP on it for a
>> laptop. I have a USB to IDE cable.
>> The hard drive is recognized in My Computer.
>> I can format it. When I put the OS cd in the drive , it wants to
>> install it on my desktop hard drive.
>> Can I install this on Drive F instead of on Drive C
>> TIA
>> ron

Does your PC even have an option to boot to usb drive in BIOS ?

Re: Installing Win XP on an external drive
 

On 29 Mar, 14:21, "- Bobb -" <b...@noemail.123> wrote:
> "Kevin" <webm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:47ec070a$0$26121$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. .
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>
>
> > "Ronald Murray" <et...@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote in message
> >news:E9CGj.515$9X3.99@edtnps82...
> >> Hello
> >> I have a laptop hard drive that I want to install Win XP on it for a
> >> laptop. I have a USB to IDE cable.
> >> The hard drive is recognized in My Computer.
> >> I can format it. When I put the OS cd in the drive , it wants to
> >> install it on my desktop hard drive.
> >> Can I install this on Drive F instead of on Drive C
> >> TIA
> >> ron
>
> Does your PC even have an option to boot to usb drive in BIOS ?


It's actually a common option.

Did you ever consider that he might be trying to boot off an IDE
drive, and then loading windows off a USB drive? (thus he would not
need to boot off a usb drive/disk).

Installing windows onto a USB drive, and Booting windows xp off a USB
drive.. I think both can be done, but have a number of
technicalities.

There is actually this site with a forum , that goes into it.

http://forums.ngine.de/viewforum.php...1fbd7df706e113