Hi Jason, In order for Windows to boot from the external hard drive, you'll need to see if your computer's BIOS or EFI supports booting from whatever the drive uses to connect to your computer (typically USB). Modern BIOS/EFI will allow you to boot from USB hard drives. The "the Windows being tied to one system" is the matter of product key that is being used on Windows installation. I forgot for XP, but under Vista, if you install Windows using the product key that is shipped, then if you install a second copy of Windows onto another drive (say, external one), you'll need to remove the "old" copy. Every Windows installation, except Volume License and OEM's, have two or more same product keys (a Volume license allows you to install multiple copies of Windows using one master product key). Cheers, Joseph
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "jason smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[email protected] >Date sent: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:31:42 +1000 >Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] external and internal hard drives > If an external hard drive is used for backing up someone's system, how can >you access it if your main system crashes? For example, are you able to >install windows separately onto the external drive and boot up from the >external drive? I have a Dell desktop with XP home. I was told with my old >system, that windows is tied to the one computer. Would the external hard >drive be recognized as being the same system? >thanks Jason >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[email protected] >Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:02 PM >Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] external and internal hard drives >>I use an external for my backups because if my internal dies I can still >>get to my data after fixing my problem. >> SA&G >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sharon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: <[email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:59 PM >> Subject: [Blind-Computing] external and internal hard drives >> In what ways is one better than the other for backup? >> Sharon >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] m]On Behalf Of Joseph Lee >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:50 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Burning data to a disc >> Hi Chris, >> There is a type of program called CD/DVD >> Authoring software which allows you to burn >> data to a disc. Some of them include Nero >> and Easth CD/DVD Creator. >> Slight correction: since Windows Media Player >> is a media application, you can burn only >> music and video files onto a disc. For >> general data such as documents, you'll need >> the authoring program. >> For data security reason, I highly recommend >> purchasing an external hard drive (the >> largest in existence is a 1 TB hard drive). >> Cheers, >> Joseph P.S. TB stands for Terabyte (1000 >> gigabytes). >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Chris Feist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>To: <[email protected] >>>Date sent: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:54:49 -0500 >>>Subject: [Blind-Computing] Burning data to a >> disc >>>Hi. Hope someone can help me. Are there >> step by step instructions >>>available on how to burn data to a CD or DVD >> using Windows Media Player 10? >>>I really need to back up my hard drive but >> don't know how. >>>I've got a drive capable of writing to either >> CD's or DVD's, and I'd like to >>>burn data to DVD's since they will hold more. >>>One of my problems is that I was given >> instructions on how to burn audio >>>CD's by moving the audio files to the disc >> drive and then how to burn with >>>Windows Media player, but the way I do it, I >> have no idea how many songs are >>>too many to fit. I just guess and either I >> have too many or not enough. >>>With an ancient version of Roxio, this was >> easy because I could easily tell >>>when I've added more than 80 Meg to the burn >> list, which was too much. I >>>miss that program a lot. But that was audio, >> and right now I'm trying to >>>burn data files. I have no way of telling >> how much data will fit on the >>>disc. >>>And if there's a better program for saving >> data to a disc out there, I'd >>>sure like to know about it, and how it works. >> This sure would be a bad time >>>for my hard drive to go bad. >>>Chris Feist - The one and only! >>>Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: >>>http://www.blind-computing.com >>>Address for the list archives: >>>http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> aws-users.com/ >>>To post to this group, send email to >>>[email protected] >>>To unsubscribe from this group, send an email >> to >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>For help from Mailman with your account Put >> the word help in the subject or body of a >> blank message to: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Use the following form in order to contact >> the management team >>>http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >>>If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send >> a blank email to the following address: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] aws-users.com/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or >> body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following >> address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] aws-users.com/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] aws-users.com/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: >http://www.blind-computing.com >Address for the list archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] aws-users.com/ >To post to this group, send email to >[email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Use the following form in order to contact the management team >http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
