Boot xp off external drive

Basically I needed xp, but my laptop has vista, and I don't have enough space to dual boot, so I thought that it might be possible to boot off an external drive (since my BIOS allows it) and run xp off of it.... Well, heres history in the making...

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Howto & Style

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• xp
• boot
• external

[milforddbrider22]

i will try

[etnies4life87]

After I modified the windows setup files to not reset USB, and I finally got it to install, I pretty much just used it like a normal computer from then on.

[milforddbrider22]

crap...it messed up computer and i had to reinstall vista..but idc

[etnies4life87]

when i tried to start it up for the first time, i removed my internal HDD in my laptop to keep it from getting messed up.

[wowshaadywarlok216]

:( how do u boot off of a flash drive????? i cant boot from cd cause i cant burn the windows installation on it. my cd drive doesnt burn anything.

[Rp3k3]

Will it work for Mac?

[cantpwnme]

both your face and the music was terrifying

[AwesomeSlayer2010]

@wowshaadywarlok216 no offense but your computer sucks..

[lindsaymobil22]

yeah i tried to install xp on my external drive but after it has copied the first load of files and reboots to the GUI installer, it came up saying boot 0x0 error, so i rebooted into vista, vista was no longer working, it came up saying that a disk hardware changte had stopped windows from booting, so i eventually found out that xp had overwritten the vista bootloader on the internal drive, (even though i told it to install on E:\, so i fling in my vista dvd, repair vista, reboot and works!

[Greentalk89]

damn mann i cnt even do this all becuzz of a dum cd rom i have 2 buy

[Eragon86micky]

lmao error message pop pups

[edurocha22]

nossa vc é o maior xd....kkkk

[markii63]

just a message complaining about the screen resolution, no error

[greenhornet123]

wtf error messages