How To Boot From External USB Drive?

jose · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 102

Hello. I got a present from a dear friend. 250 gigabytes of external disk drive space inside a USB rack. Now, I became very curious about having another operating system that I can carry with my self. What should I do to set up this USB rack to boot from it? Is it some kind of procedure that requires more advanced knowledge or not? Thanks in advance.

hube · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 201

Hello there. No, it is not. First you need to format the drive the same way as you would format non-removable drive or device. Than you can install the operating system the same way as you would do that with a regular drive. Note that you must have motherboard that supports booting from the usb device. Also, I am not recommending you to install Windows based operating system, because of found new hardware feature, when you plug the drive to another PS machine. BIOS tells you all about boot settings and features. Once more, do not try anything with windows. It wont work well.

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How To Boot From External USB Drive?

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