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How to install debian on an external hard disk drive
Would I be able to move all my present stuff (progs, data, drivers, connection/router details) onto this external hard drive whilst I reformat my machine and (40 GB) Hard Disk. snip Another point - if all you need (or want) it for is to temporarily store your stuff while you do a Partition, Format & Install,

Installing Win98 to HDD other than C:\
BIOS set to boot first to floppy drive. The original win 98 boot disk, at least, would prompt you as whether cdrom support was requested. If cdrom support chosen, setup would install drivers for cdrom. otherwise cdrom drive will not be available. Hopefully, downloaded boot disk provides cdrom support option.

Install Win 2000 on external hard drive
I just got Office XP Dev to teach myself some things about automation, etc., and was concidering installing on an external drive, as my native one is running a little low on storage space. If I choose to do so, will the functionality be limited in any way? If you have answers, please drop me a note at

Quesions about adding a big external hard drive
Nirmal Govind nirm...@psu.edu comp os linux hardware I'm trying to install RH 7.3 on an external USB hard disk. I used the CD and started off the installation from my laptop and it gave me the option of installing onto /dev/sda and everything seemed to be fine. I also created a boot floppy for this.

Installing windows xp on an external hard drive
Haishan Qian haishanq...@hotmail.com comp hardware alt comp hardware Hi, I'm planing to buy a CD-RW and install it into my external hard drive bay. (which is USB interface). While I'm not quite sure whether this can work or not. Does anyone has the experience? Thanks, Haishan.

Trying to install Seagate external Hard drive
I am considering acquiring an external hard drive for backup purposes and restoration in case my internal hard drive fails. As a relative novice to this business, I would like some advice on some basic questions. I have a Dell Dimension 4500, 60 Mb hard drive (about 20% full), and use XP Home (ready to install SP2

Q Formating & Install external hard drive
This time, my computer can't "see" the external drive. It is present on Device Manager and says its is working, but I can't see it on "My Computer" or windows explorer. I have tried reinstalling the Maxtor software, Windows, reformatting and repartitioning several times; have tried to install in safe mode but the

Trouble installing USB2 external hard drive
I'm trying to piece together an old Indigo2 (R4400, 250MHz, Solid Impact, no internal hard drive). I have a new IBM Ultrastar 18ES (DNES-318350) 80-pin external hard drive, and an external Toshiba cdrom (TXM3401E1). hinv shows the hard drive at controller 1, ID 1, and the cdrom at (1,6). I haven't been able to use

Recording onto External Hard Drive
Rob Grosz rcgr...@optonline.net microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Can anyone please tell me if there is a way of installing win 98se on a usb external hard drive (ie via boot from floppy). I need to do this since the hard disk on my notebook probably got hit with a virus. By installing win 98se on the usb

Installing an external hard drive ...
Tom Weaver tvwea...@austin.ibm.com comp unix aix In article <1994Jun25. 184220.30...@waikato.ac.nz> aria...@waikato.ac.nz writes: I have just received a 3.0 gigbyte external hard-drive (scsi) for our RS6000/350. The drive is unformatted. As root, enter "diag". One of the "service aids" can be used to format disks,

external hard drive for backups
Peter VH pvanh...@earthlink.net microsoft public windowsme hardware Hi All, I'm about to purchase an external hard drive (Maxitor 40GB) to use with my Dell Desktop system that is running happily on Windows ME. Is there anything special I need to know about adding an extra hard drive? When I plug it in using the USB

Dumb Question? - Install on External Hard Drive & Differences ...
Bosco836 abulkiew...@gmail.com comp os ms-windows misc I just purchased a 160GB WD External USB 2 hard drive. I was wondering if it would be possible to install software on it so that I could use my software, regardless of who's computer I am using. Thanks.

USB storage adapter (TPP) install disk
netANT microsoft public win98 disks general On 9/5/2004 6:14 AM PT, Richard G. Harper wrote: A computer that old probably does not support booting Windows from an external hard drive. That's a fairly new option. IIRC, Windows XP doesn't even support external HDDs for its OS installation either.

Can you install Windows (98) on an external hard drive that has be
I recently decided to install windows 2000 on the laptop and I ran into a problem. I cannot get setup to recognize the Iomega ZipCD 650 usb cd-rom drive (but it can recognize the floppy drive). Getting desperate, I pulled out the hard drive, put it in an external hard drive enclosure, formatted it to FAT32,

Seagate 400gb USB External hard drive - faulty?
You can then use it just like a regular drive. Yes, you have to open the case to do this, but installing this isn't at all hard. You mount the sleeve with four Rather than buying an external USB drive, I suggest buying a regular IDE drive, and a removable sleeve to insert it in. That's lets you do your backup,

Can you install Windows (98) on an external hard drive that ...
Lil' Dave <got...@nomail.net> wrote I keep a copy of the basic OS install, and four week backups in weekly increments. Don't need a year's worth. THATS WHAT THE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE WAS FOR, the destination for the weekly full backup of the system for quick and easy recovery if the system hard drive fails etc.

Possible to install my Windows XP Pro on my external hard ...
"Dantum" <Dan...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:915E6E0C-5C1B-4D16-AF22-E8E4A41557FC@microsoft.com... I recently purchased a Seagate 3.5" external Hard drive and am trying to install it onto my pc with Os windows xp. It is a usb connection and should recognize it straight away but it doesn't.

Installing Fedora 3 on External Hard Drive - beginner
I think this is it, if Windows doesn't support installing it on external hard drives then I'm giving up, I'm gonna use Linux and forget about Windows, Though some claim you can install and run XP from an external USB drive, and you could Google for supposed directions on this, I have never actually known anyone

Installing Windows 2000 from local disk
So I'm wondering, assuming I can set the bios to boot from a USB external HD-- can I set it up to run Linux that way? There are also a lot of distributions which come with a "live" cd which allows you to run off of a cd without puting *anything* onto a hard drive. -- (setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )