External Hard Drive

Most bios's that I have seen only offer boots on the ide drives, the floppy
drive or the cdrom drive. I have not seen one that could boot to an
external drive. With a second internal drive there is the option to boot to
it by changing the boot sequence in bios and this works good. Say you have
some program that only works with Win.98 or some other earlier system it is
possible to put that OS on an extra internal drive and boot to it then when
you are done and want to boot to the other drive go back into bios and
change the boot sequence again.
"Jawahar Rajan" <jrajan.DeleteThis@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:CS1dc.2236$zB3.127544@twister.southeast.rr.com...
 > I have a Sony Laptop PPCG-FXA53 with Win XP home
 > I would like to use second hard drive with Win 2003 server for development
 > purposes
 > Can I link up anexternal hard drive using the USB connection (2.0) How can
I
 > be sure the USB I have is 2.0
 > Is it possible to have a bootable extranal hard Drive. SO that I can boot
 > from it if needed
 >
 > I would like to set up a dual boot.
 > Can I dual boot from my C drive (which has WinXP home) and have win2003
 > Server on the external drive
 >
 > Any help or suggestions are appreciated
 >
 > Jawahar
 >
 >
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Many BIOSs have the option to boot from SCSI. This is also handy if you want to boot from a Promise ATA adapter, which emulates SCSI. I looked in my Pentium 3 Soyo motherboard BIOS and discovered that it has options to boot from USB floppy, USB CDROM, and USB hard drive.

Eugene Solot wrote:
 >
 > Most bios's that I have seen only offer boots on the ide drives, the floppy
 > drive or the cdrom drive. I have not seen one that could boot to an
 > external drive. With a second internal drive there is the option to boot to
 > it by changing the boot sequence in bios and this works good. Say you have
 > some program that only works with Win.98 or some other earlier system it is
 > possible to put that OS on an extra internal drive and boot to it then when
 > you are done and want to boot to the other drive go back into bios and
 > change the boot sequence again.
 > "Jawahar Rajan" <jrajan RemoveThis @nc.rr.com> wrote in message
 > news:CS1dc.2236$zB3.127544@twister.southeast.rr.com...
  > > I have a Sony Laptop PPCG-FXA53 with Win XP home
  > > I would like to use second hard drive with Win 2003 server for development
  > > purposes
  > > Can I link up anexternal hard drive using the USB connection (2.0) How can
 > I
  > > be sure the USB I have is 2.0
  > > Is it possible to have a bootable extranal hard Drive. SO that I can boot
  > > from it if needed
  > >
  > > I would like to set up a dual boot.
  > > Can I dual boot from my C drive (which has WinXP home) and have win2003
  > > Server on the external drive
  > >
  > > Any help or suggestions are appreciated
  > >
  > > Jawahar
  > >
  > >
  > >

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