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Since: Nov 10, 2003
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:55 am
Post subject: Booting from USB flash drive
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Has anybody here managed to boot and run a Windows machine with a flash
drive _instead of_ a hard disk? What's needed?

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