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| 1270980 | 2012-04-21 00:59:00 | Might sound a stupid question and if it is fair enough :) Just wondering is it possible to run from an externall hardrive via USB or even using a flashdrive? |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1270981 | 2012-04-21 01:06:00 | If your motherboard supports booting from USB then I dont see why you cant do it. Check your bios, make the adjustment if you can and see. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1270982 | 2012-04-21 01:22:00 | Windows would still need to run an the computer you used to install though as moving to another one and trying to run it would be against the licence and it would most likely crash anyway. Linux however is quite happy to do this and if you only need certain programs why not use portable apps? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1270983 | 2012-04-21 02:10:00 | It would also run very slowly due to USB2 transfer speeds being about 12 to 15 MB/sec, USB3 would be better, ESATA best. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1270984 | 2012-04-21 21:23:00 | So it is possible. Up until now I had installed a second clean operating system in a seperate partition on the hard drive. A recent corrupted start up started me thinking about having an additional backup on another drive incase of HD failure. QWorth a try just wondered if anyone had already tried this? Theory is good practice is another. | coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1270985 | 2012-04-21 23:16:00 | Google is your friend ;) www.google.co.nz www.google.co.nz |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1270986 | 2012-04-21 23:27:00 | I tried a little once (for W98), where you edited the iso/copy of windows, and use bartpe's builder (remember bart's? kind of popular once). Then burn the modified windows for external usb to allow booting. But got too tedious editing/swapping too many files. Tom's Hardware has a similar article, windows in your pocket. Many other articles came out around the same time. Don't know if applicable on today's systems. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1270987 | 2012-04-22 06:14:00 | I had mac running of a RAID setup of memory sticks (10.6.8). Worked fine, would use it for anything data heavy but could browse the net, watch youtube etc. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1270988 | 2012-04-23 22:50:00 | Windows doesn't support being run off an external USB drive or Usb key Windows 8 will support this using a feature called Windows To Go |
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