installing XP onto external hardrive. is it possible?

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installing XP onto external hardrive. is it possible?

i have a C2D mackbook pro with the small 100gig 7200rpm hard drive to gain as much power as possible. with that in mind is it possible to install a bootable windows XP onto an external drive thats connnected to my macbook? i want to avoid having to partision my drive. any solutions would be greatly received.

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Power Mac Quad G5, G4 iMac 800mhz 17inch, 1st generation G3 iBook Turquoise, Mac OS X (10.4.8), I want a Macbook Pro!!!

Posted on Nov 7, 2006 2:58 AM

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Nov 7, 2006 4:32 AM in response to Reelsick Productions

XP will allow you to install on external drive but it's unusable due to technical limitations with the XP kernel - it does a bus reset at boot which kills its connection to the external drive and thus ends up blue screening at boot.

You might try Vista though - it has chance of working.

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