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February 15, 2007 at 02:19 PM
dodgy.general

Creating a bootable Windows partition on an external USB Harddrive

by dodgy.general . Updated 18 years, 2 months ago

I’ve now bought external harddrive housing with SATA->USB adapter for my internal SATA harddrive to be able to use it with my new portable.

Is it possible to make a bootable windows partitions on it (in addition to the bootable partition already on my internal harddive), and if it is possible, would the performance when running an OS off the USB-HD be worse than if running an OS from the internal sata HD? It’s 7200RPM, but thinking more of transfer rates, or other bottlenecks that I don’t know about.

The idea is to have one harddrive for my photoshop software and work that I can carry around and where Windows is otherwise clean/not bloated.

If this is possible without performance degradation, how would i go about doing it?

(I don’t want the OS on the external to show up in the boot menu of the internal HD! I want to have the boot order in bios so that if the ext hardrive is connected it automatically boots from it instead of the internal)

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