external hard drive

[JD Austin]

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 at 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?
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> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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