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**RerRibreLok** · 12-23-2007, 08:10 AM

According to this website its possible with some tweaking.

http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176

But would it be the best thing. I tried creating a new partition on my main drive but do not feel like going through the trouble of doing a clean install of both OS'. So my thinking was to install it on a 40 gig partition of my external drive. According the the website posted above, it is possible and is fully functional.

Since XP and Vista (as well as the BIOS) supports booting from an external drive (XP Pro with some tweaking) should I go for it?

I believe that my computer would be able to beast XP and just wanted to try it out and see how well it worked. Curiosity is killing me on this subject.

Any other questions?

Setup is:

Dell Latitude D520

2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 gigs of RAM
120 gig HDD
DVD Burner
15 inch WXGA screen
Windows Vista Ultimate

anymore questions?

12-23-2007, 08:10 AM	#1
RerRibreLok Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 666 Senior Member	Running Windows XP from External Drive?? According to this website its possible with some tweaking. http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176 But would it be the best thing. I tried creating a new partition on my main drive but do not feel like going through the trouble of doing a clean install of both OS'. So my thinking was to install it on a 40 gig partition of my external drive. According the the website posted above, it is possible and is fully functional. Since XP and Vista (as well as the BIOS) supports booting from an external drive (XP Pro with some tweaking) should I go for it? I believe that my computer would be able to beast XP and just wanted to try it out and see how well it worked. Curiosity is killing me on this subject. Any other questions? Setup is: Dell Latitude D520 2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 gigs of RAM 120 gig HDD DVD Burner 15 inch WXGA screen Windows Vista Ultimate anymore questions?
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