jgrimes80 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 I've got an MBP with both XP and OSX running just fine. However, I use much more space, way more often in OSX. I know it's not readily possible to boot XP off an external drive without difficulty, but I was wondering if anyone happened to have attempted to boot Vista off an external drive? With backwards compatibility, I thought Vista might be a decent solution. Thanks in Advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 bump... must not be possible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 never tried it *shrugs* just resize the partitions and install vista and do a tri boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 why not have the os's boot from the mpb's hard drive and then just save things to a external hd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non sequitur Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 cosmo is thinking smart. that's probably what i would do too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartboy919 Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 OMG why cant people learn to use the friggan search tool in the the friggin forum. I must have come across a dozen diffrent frigan threads that ask about using a frigan external HDD here are a few. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=24897 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=24396 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=20697 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=19448 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=18345 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=12294 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=9721 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted August 28, 2006 Author Share Posted August 28, 2006 OMG why cant people learn to use the friggan search tool in the the friggin forum. I must have come across a dozen diffrent frigan threads that ask about using a frigan external HDD here are a few. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=24897 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=24396 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=20697 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=19448 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=18345 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=12294 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=9721 All the ones I came across were specifically asking about XP... just like most of the ones you've posted. Thanks a bunch; a simple "no" would have done it. I asked about Vista... @ Cosmo Kramer - that's my current configuration... Doing video editing on the fly has been becoming a problem. I never use XP out of my office (parametric modeling) and I hadn't read anything on Vista, so I'd thought it might be a possibility. All well, I guess I'll invest in a portable HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartboy919 Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 if xp aint doing it, then i sure as hell know vista aint gonna do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armo Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 you can boot xp and vista from a external hard drive. The only catch is the mobo has to support booting off usb. I have a box running 2000 off an external hard drive. You just hit the key for your boot menu then select usb. You do have to slipstream the usb drivers into the windows cd though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartboy919 Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 And if you havent got an externaal drive yet, it may be easyer to boot off a fire wire external drive. although i havent seen any recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armo Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 booting off an external firewire drive is a lot harder to find though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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