Yes, be sure you bios allow for booting from USB.
All in all, I would not get an external USB hard drive. The bus speed is
important, doncha think?
USB is not fast!
Just go get a SATA drive? Order one online. But first be sure you have a
SATA capable mobo?
JD is right, the USB2 card or sata dock would be required.
How about a SSD drive? They are quite a bit faster? (Internal)?
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, JD Austin <
jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
> Add a USB2 card and get either a sata dock (you'll want to put a fan on it)
> or get a hotswap drive bay.
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 16:26, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One more thing.... I don't think I have USB 2.0
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks, JD. Do you know the terms I need to enter into google to find
>>> what I'm looking for? What I want is an external housing for a single hard
>>> disk drive (maybe two) in which it is possible to swap out drives w/o
>>> unscrewing things. Maybe I would be better off getting a standard EHD?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some OS's don't boot well from an external drive but Linux does just
>>>> fine.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 15:41, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was just looking at my startup devices menu and the first in line is
>>>>> 'Removable devices.' Does an external hard drive not count for that?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> hmmmm.... I just went into office max (the best thing we have for a
>>>>>> computer store in cottonwood) and the computer guy there said that you
>>>>>> can't boot off of an External hard Drive. Well, another option I have (if
>>>>>> that is true), is to copy the live CD onto the ED then to boot off of a
>>>>>> flash drive and on the FD tell it the information is on the ED. I know
>>>>>> this is possible because I had a linux friend doing something similar to
>>>>>> this. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm doing my research to find one of these online and I am unsure of
>>>>>>> the search terms. What exactly should I enter to find one in which I can
>>>>>>> insert and remove standard desktop hard drives? Would it be 5.25" enclosure
>>>>>>> or 3.5"?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As you all know my hard drive is no more and all of my spares are
>>>>>>>> kaput as well. I was thinking that instead of an internal hard drive I
>>>>>>>> would get an external one. Then, I could always have my computer with me:!)
>>>>>>>> I have a NetVista computer. Do any of you know if I will have a problem
>>>>>>>> booting from an external hard drive? When I initialy boot and press F-12
>>>>>>>> it goes into boot media order and says that removable media is in the boot
>>>>>>>> order so I suppose it's all good. What do you think?
>>>>>>>>
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