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X2BreakOfFate · 04-16-2007, 03:43 AM

Better Idea.. When you install Windows reformat your hard drive to be an NTFS Partition. If the bios can see that the hard drive is plugged in, and the Windows CD can also see this... then there should be no problem booting it on a computer. I have had Mac OSX 86 on my external and it boots just fine.

04-16-2007, 03:43 AM	#3 (permalink)
X2BreakOfFate Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 121	Better Idea.. When you install Windows reformat your hard drive to be an NTFS Partition. If the bios can see that the hard drive is plugged in, and the Windows CD can also see this... then there should be no problem booting it on a computer. I have had Mac OSX 86 on my external and it boots just fine. __________________ Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ (1.8GHZ/512KB) Windows Vista Ultimate 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display 1Gb DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2Dimm 60GB Hard Drive 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (Inter.)