quick question for a friend

[SGWills]

my mate recently bought a pc for cheap, he has got a spare hdd for it as of yet but is wondering whether he can intall a copy of XP on to a external hard drive and have his pc pick up the external hdd as the boot drive?

any way this would work

SG

 

[TheVoice]

Some motherboards will let you boot from USB devices (you'll find said options in the BIOS), but it's going to be quite slow overall.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

I don't no why he would want to install XP to an external drive. If he just got a spare one why doesn't he not just add it inside the computer ????

I am unsure of what your trying to ask here.

 

[SGWills]

sorry typo on the first post, he hasnt got the hdd as of yet, but he wants to get it up and running to see whether everything works

i shall let him no to check his bios and i will let you all know how it goes

thanks