With apologies for my lack of understanding, I'm not sure I see where this conversation about external drives is taking me. What is really at issue is whether or not I do a full install (be that on an external, internal, or whatever drive) of all my programs for the sake of a month of the "loaner" if I am going to have to repeat all of that when the new machine arrives. My alternatives are to muddle along as I am and do not do anything until the new machine arrives, or do a minimal installation on the loaner so that my soon-to-be-duplicated effort is minimized, or do a full blown installation on the loaner, which I would only do if I have reasonable prospect of being able to port over all of that work to the new machine without starting from scratch again.
How does an extremal drive solve this for me? Michael ==== From: b_s-wilk <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 1:23:53 AM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Swapping Boot Drives > Yes, you can boot from an external drive, but that's not what he's asking. It's what he needs to do, but didn't state it. With a loaner computer, there's no reason to bother to switch the hard drive when you can plug in an external, possibly bare drive for a week or so until the right computer arrives. Easy. I can boot from a flash drive on my Mac. That's easier. Might work with Windows? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
