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06-01-2002, 12:18 PM
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Labtop & External Drive Question
A friend of mine was looking into upgrading his Compaq labtop's hard drive capacity. Right now he has a 4GB HDD in the labtop.
He want's to run multiple O/S on it.... ME, XP & Linux. We were looking at an external USB HDD as the better solution to upgrading capacity. Is it possible to run a multiboot with the external USB drive? Or does the BIOS need to have the option to boot from USB. I was thinking that it may be possible to install XP from ME and pointing the installation to the external drive. Then during the boot screen you could choose between whatever OS. But is USB bootup support needed in the BIOS at that point? Thanks, Vlad |
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06-01-2002, 12:20 PM
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I've never tried it, but I have a feeling that woulnd't work.
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06-01-2002, 12:44 PM
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I've tried it, doesn't work.
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