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Booting XP from external hard drive
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I would rather not take up hard disk space on my MBP with XP. Is it possible to install boot camp and XP on an external drive?
Thanks.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Not without rolling your own custom XP install and giving some of your internal drive to the installation: http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1015
Apparently XP reinitializes the USB/Firewire ports/drivers at boot, so you need some space on the internal drive for the MBR to start, then it points to the external drive.
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Last edited by sieb; Apr 26, 2006 at 04:52 AM.
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Sieb
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(2Ghz, 2GB, 100Gig, week 21)
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
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Thanks for the link. Some good information over there.
Chris
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