external hard drive

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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"?
>
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> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at 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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>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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