Konjohn Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Hi all i was wondering if anyone has got xp booting from usb!!!!i've got an mbp and i really need to play games The problem is that i haven't got much space on my mb hd (movies,mp3 etc etc)so i don't want to partition it!!!so if i can get to boot from usb that'll be great!!! tnks ~konjohn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147331-xp-on-usb/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 It's not a good idea at all to have the OS on a usb drive. It should work, I would have no idea on how to force bootcamp to boot from an external drive instead of an internal, but speeds of usb would really really kill performance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147331-xp-on-usb/#findComment-1043842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 If it was normal usage then maybe... but if you want to boot from a USB simply to play games, I'm sure speed will be a major issue. I've tried to boot OSx86 and XP from a SD card and you can really feel how slow it is. Also if you really are planning on going ahead with it get a USB with fast read/write speeds, not just large capacity. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147331-xp-on-usb/#findComment-1043871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konjohn Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 ok tnks a lot!!!! i think i'll probably just go and get a firewire external hd and use that!!! i remember reading somewhere that it works with firewire! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147331-xp-on-usb/#findComment-1044695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vani Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Check out http://www.usboot.org/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147331-xp-on-usb/#findComment-1045324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konjohn Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 tnks a lot i'll look at it!!!!!does boot camp support firewire hd???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147331-xp-on-usb/#findComment-1045864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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