Hello can somebody help me , I have purchased a new usb hard drive and trying to install windows on there as my old hard drive on my laptop is corrupt, I have plugged in my usb to my laptop and when i try to install window is get a message saying that i cannot install the windows, can anyone help me with this problem.



Many thanks

Steve

I would like to put a winxp ontp my usb HD too please, if it is possible?

Steve, hope you will not mind my adding to your query?

regards

grimerz

No. Only in the rare exception where a motherboard has a USB boot capability. This is very rare and you'd probably know it if it did. Sorry.

I have Windows 2000 on my USB external hard drive, it is drive E and I can boot from it. I also have XP on my C drive. Windows allows more than one operating system and you can choose which to boot from.