I've found some contradictory info on this question on the internet and thought I'd take advantage of all the technical expertise on this list to see if I can get a definitive answer:
Can a hard drive that is connected to a system via a USB port be used as the boot disk?
AFAIK, no. In your computer's BIOS settings you can set the order in which your computer looks for bootable devices (floppy disk, harddisk, CD-ROM, LAN); unless "USB" is included in that list, you can't boot from a harddisk connected to a USB port.
So far, I haven't seen any computers that had "USB" as a boot option. (I recently rolled out five brand new Pentium-4 IBM NetVista PC's, and even those didn't have that option.)
HTH
Jeroen "Tech Support" van Baardwijk
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