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05-24-2007
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| | How do I install external usb hard drive for Vista in a dual boot I want to install Vista on a usb external hard drive with C: remaining for XP. When I went to do a clean install on E:, the Vista installer tells me that it can not install Vista on a external usb or IEEE drive. Is this a fixable problem? Why would Vista care about the external drive being usb or IEEE. Please help so I don't have to partition my small internal hard drive. I am using a Dell Inspiron E1505 with 60hd, 2mb ram. |
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05-24-2007
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| | Re: How do I install external usb hard drive for Vista in a dual boot You can not install Vista to an external USB hard drive. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "jcoane" <jcoane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1FB2657E-CBD7-46A0-92E1-A66DC52FA6C7@microsoft.com... >I want to install Vista on a usb external hard drive with C: remaining for > XP. When I went to do a clean install on E:, the Vista installer tells me > that it can not install Vista on a external usb or IEEE drive. Is this a > fixable problem? Why would Vista care about the external drive being usb > or > IEEE. Please help so I don't have to partition my small internal hard > drive. > > I am using a Dell Inspiron E1505 with 60hd, 2mb ram. |
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05-24-2007
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| | Re: How do I install external usb hard drive for Vista in a dual boot Windows Vista can only be installed successfully on an internal hard drive. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Â*----- "jcoane" wrote: I want to install Vista on a usb external hard drive with C: remaining for XP. When I went to do a clean install on E:, the Vista installer tells me that it can not install Vista on a external usb or IEEE drive. Is this a fixable problem? Why would Vista care about the external drive being usb or IEEE. Please help so I don't have to partition my small internal hard drive. I am using a Dell Inspiron E1505 with 60hd, 2mb ram. |
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05-25-2007
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| | Re: How do I install external usb hard drive for Vista in a dual boot It can be installed on an external SATA if you have that available. "jcoane" <jcoane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1FB2657E-CBD7-46A0-92E1-A66DC52FA6C7@microsoft.com... >I want to install Vista on a usb external hard drive with C: remaining for > XP. When I went to do a clean install on E:, the Vista installer tells me > that it can not install Vista on a external usb or IEEE drive. Is this a > fixable problem? Why would Vista care about the external drive being usb > or > IEEE. Please help so I don't have to partition my small internal hard > drive. > > I am using a Dell Inspiron E1505 with 60hd, 2mb ram. |
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