Question: Booting OS(s) from external hard drives
| Hard Drive & Solid State Drive (SSD) Discuss, Booting OS(s) from external hard drives at Computer Hardware forum; Want to have hard drives for Windows 7 & Vista as well as my current XP, can I boot externally for Windows 7 & Vista or do they have to be internal drives? |
| Want to have hard drives for Windows 7 & Vista as well as my current XP, can I boot externally for Windows 7 & Vista or do they have to be internal drives? |
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| It depends if your mainboard is able to support boot from an external device  Check in your mainboard's BIOS or in the user manual if this feature is supported
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| My motherboard is made by MSI (PM8M3-V) - the on-board IDE: - can connect up to 4 IDE devices - serial ATA 150 controller integrated in VT8237R - up to 150MB/s transfer speed can connect up to 2 serial ATA drives - an IDE controller on the VT8237R chipset provides IDE HDD/ Cd-ROM with PIO, bus master and ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes |
| Buy a PCI/PCI-E card with Esata. Buy an Esata Case + Sata HDD  Tada! Your PC recognises it as an internal drive, and it operates at full sata (1.5Gb/3Gbps) speed Using windows off a USB drive is excruciatingly slow.
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