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Can i make my portable HDD as bootable with XP installed?


Im planning to buy a portable HDD,



Can i install XP in that and make it bootable

(Ofcourse there will be Vista in the internal HDD)?



Or Vista in Portable and XP in the Internal, Whatever....



So how to make it bootable?

    
Juven

You need a BIOS that supports booting from USB devices.

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Cromewell

Is there a way to know whelther my Bios supports that?

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Juven

Your motherboard manual should tell you. What board do you have? Someone should be able to look it up pretty quickly.

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Cromewell

Usually in BIOS, under boot devices, there should be a selection in boot priority for "removable drive"

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tooch926

Its a old Board - Intel D865GBF. P4 HT processor.

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Juven

If the motherboard allows it, will it be bootable on any computer? Or restricted to the one you installed it with?

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oregon

It will more than likely be restricted to the machine you installed it on. Or one just like it



Your board does support booting from USB devices. In the BIOS under the Boot Menu set USB Boot to enabled then you need to put Removble Drives in the Boot Device Priority list.

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Cromewell

Hmmm... that could actually be useful. My family has three identical computers.

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oregon

into bios and boot from universal serial bus or usb hub and it should work

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