external hard drive

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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?
>
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> 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?
>>>
>>> --
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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