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12-22-2007, 02:06 PM
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will this work????
hi maeery xmas to all
 I have a gateway PIV notebook on which the motherboard hdd connector does not function. .. Could i use an external usb 2.0 hdd to function as the unit's sole hdd? (in place of the internal hdd)?? If so- hurray--id load winxp and all other software onto it and my problem is solved! otherwise, the notebook is unuseable. I believ setp bios can assign and external drive to be first in boot order. TX |
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12-23-2007, 04:38 AM
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Ride 'em Cowboy
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If the BIOS does support booting off a USB, it'll only take you twenty minutes to find out if it works or not..Other have done it:
Fred Langa has an excellent, illustrated, step-by-step article on how to get a bootable, lightweight installation of XP onto a self-contained, zero-footprint, USB thumb or flash drive: Langa Letter: XP On Your Thumb Drive http://www.informationweek.com/windo...o=1&queryText= WinUSB is a tutorial which allows the user to run a complete Windows XP version on an USB device/stick. http://www.winusb.de/index_en.html
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12-23-2007, 07:39 AM
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Your first link is truncated, Ezy.
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12-23-2007, 07:43 AM
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Fixed
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