How Do I Install Window XP Onto My External Hard Drive

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  1. saunds2

    saunds2 Member

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    Hi,

    I have got a New Hard Drive that is a USB one, I wanted to have this as my main drive as the hard drive built into my pc is fubar'd. Is there anyway that when I try and load the Windows CD for running the set up program, I get to select the F drive which is the external drive as it just seems to show the c drive?

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    saunds2, Dec 26, 2006
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  2. Morph416

    Morph416 Active member

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    Heh...I myself, wouldn't bother with the traditional setup of using a bootable USB drive. I'd remove the hard drive from the enclosure and install it into the tower. Set the new drive as master, the original drive as a slave, and install a fresh OS on the new drive.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    get a new hd for internal use as can't use the xp external hd as bootable drive on other computers.
     
    ddp, Dec 26, 2006
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