usb harddrive boot

manc girl

manc girl

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ive taken a hdd from a packard bell laptop
that will not boot, can i put xp on this hdd
using my toshiba laptop in a usb caddy? thanks in advance
 
Can you not just put a fresh install on it in the old laptop? Not quite sure what your trying to do? If the old laptop wont even run the xp install, putting it on with another machine isnt going to make it miraculasly start booting?
 
cnt put a fresh install on it from my packard bell
because it wnt let me do it, think there might be a
problem with the cd drive, so can i do it from my toshiba
laptop, can i do a fresh xp install using my usb caddy on the
hdd ive taken from the packard bell laptop?
 
I've done it a few times, if you set the boot order in the BIOS to boot from the USB HDD (if your mobo actually supports this) then it can be done.
 
So you have a borked PB laptop and working Tosh laptop. You're asking can you install XP on the PBs HDD and then put it back into the PB, it is possible but a bit of a pain.

Not sure what the best way of doing this is really, you could put the PB HDD into the Tosh and install XP that way, IIRC you can start the XP install then when it goes to restart you can change the hard drive into another machine and it will work.

The trouble is if you do an install all the way through Windows will install the drivers and configure itself for the Tosh then you go and wack it in the PB there is no guarentee it will boot, often it will blue screen.

Im not sure if XP will see the USB hard drive as something it can be installed on but I'm sure there is a way.

P.S never buy a PB
 
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