Help me please ....

[Aliboy]

Greetings peeps.

I'm really sorry for the noobie questions here but please bare with me as this is driving me mad.
I've bought an external hard drive that I would like to use for work only and use the one that is already installed internally for my usual pc guff and personal use. Can I install windows onto my external hard drive and all of the applications that I need for my work onto it and just plug it in when I need to? Also, are there any applications that can completely wipe any data from my external hard drive so that it reverts back to 'out of the box' state. Also, if anyone has any links that could show me a sort of step by step guide on how to do this then I'd be really grateful.
Thanks again folks

Al

 

[Aliboy]

Thanks for the replies lads

The external drive is a WD My Book Premium ES (320gb). I need to get an esata connection for it though as I know that using a usb connection will slow things down.
My pc spec is an AMD Athlon 3700, 2GB RAM, stuck onto an Asus A8N SLI Premium motherboard.

Hope this helps

Al

 

[Aliboy]

Did you not get an adapter like that with the board?

Unfortunately not buddy. I think I'll have to invest in one from somewhere

Thanks again for the advise.

Al