[NTLUG:Discuss] Can one boot from an external Hard Drive ?

[Steve Baker]

Tom Tumelty wrote:
> I have a Western Digital external USB port 120 Gig
> hard drive. 

It entirely depends on your BIOS.  Go into the BIOS
setup screen(s) and see if you can select 'boot from USB'.
If you can (and presuming the drive has a bootable image
on it, etc) - then it should work.

If you can't select 'boot from USB' (and MANY BIOS'es
don't support that feature) - then you'll have to put the
boot stuff onto a floppy or a CD-ROM and boot from that
instead.

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