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  1. 6th December 2012, 03:13 PM #1
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    External hard drive

    I have a compact desktop computer with a bung hard drive. Is it possible to boot this using an external hard drive vie usb port? Somehow I don't think so.
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  2. 6th December 2012, 03:17 PM #2
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    I believe some motherboards allow for USB booting (in the bios settings) but it wouldnt be my first choice, get a new hdd set it up as a secondary drive then use a cloning program like seagate seatools to copy all the files over to the new hdd - a clean install is always preferred but a clone to restore the system to previous working state.
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    Presume that it has a 2.5 inch notebook drive if it does buy one on ebay put it in and away you go
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  4. 6th December 2012, 04:33 PM #4
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    All computers I have been involved that have USB with (not all that many!) can be booted from it by changing the boot sequence in the BIOS settings.

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