Marta I wouldn't use myself a USB drive for anything other than file back up. The reason why you see a lot of USB drives is that people don't like opening up their computers and a lot of computers example some Dells and HP's don't have room for extra drives. For a back up boot drive Firewire should be used as that is one of its designed uses. I have picked up firewire drives at compusa for 99 buck for 250 gig's so price is really not an issue to me. What I want is to be able to install Windows on an firewire drive and use bootcamp to run the computer off the drive. Windows really is not set up to boot from and external drive like OSX.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta Edie Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:13 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Boot from USB? And here is Ed, who has the total url encyclopedia in his head. Marta On Aug 21, 2006, at 11:40, Ed Wiser wrote: > > http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/06/usbharddrives/ > index.php > > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? > story=20060301112336384&lsrc=osxh > > http://www.macfixitforums.com/showthreaded.php? > Cat=&Board=tiger&Number=7 > 54124 > >> On Aug 20, 2006, at 9:34 PM, b3 wrote: >> >>> I'm having a bit of trouble finding a definitive answer to this. >>> >>> Can I boot my intel based macbook from an external USB drive? easily? >> >> As long as it is supported by the system(?), you should be able to. >> >>> I'm giving my current 160GB drive to the wife for backups, and want >>> to get something larger for myself. USB drives seem to be much >>> cheaper than firewire once you get above 160GB. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Rick > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be August > | 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be August 22 | at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
