Windows hates booting from USB. Microsoft really doesn't want that much
portability for their OS that could be ran on any modern PC. Maybe if it were
an E-SATA drive it would work, but I haven't tested that.
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Booting to Vista from an external USB drive in Leopard/Boot Camp?
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:12:11 -0800
>
>
> I've got a Windows Vista partition on my external USB drive; if the
> drive is active when I reboot, can I use boot camp to boot from this
> partition by holding down the option key after the chime? I'm selling
> my XP laptop which has OpenBook on it, but still want to use Open Book
> for OCR stuff until something better for the Mac comes along, so I
> need a windows partition and the only one I have is Vista...
> Thanks! :)
>
>
> Mark BurningHawk Baxter
>
> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
> MSN: [email protected]
> My home page:
> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
>
>
> >
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