Running PC off External Harddrive

[spikoman69]

I have a dell with only one slot for a harddrive, and all i have is a 40gb, and i wanna add on w/o going through the hassle or copying all my info off my current one and puitting it onto a new one, and all the extra BS, so i decided just to buy a 200gb External USB Harddrive, because of its exachangability between PCs (AKA put files on on 1 pc, put them on friends pc).
My only concern is, will this harddrive work like a normal internal harddrive where i can install games/programs on it, run these games on it, etc.?

 

[Harper]

Are you using Windows?

 

[spikoman69]

windows xp home SP2

 

[Harper]

Windows will not allow you to install on to an external hard drive.

Time to switch to linux

 

[spikoman69]

are you kidding me? any suggestions on what else i could do?

 

[Harper]

Get a mac
I know you can install the OSX and run it off an external drive

 

[pat2k5]

i've never tried it but i've seen things about windows xp flash drive edition on a torrent site...

surely this would work on a external hdd aswell ?

but yeah i havent tried it..

and of course you should have a legit copy of xp before dlin these...

 

[spikoman69]

i dont want to have windows on the external harddrive, i want to have windows on my internal, and start using my external as like a second harddrive once i fill up my small 40gb one. So it will have documents, music, pics, vids, programs, games, and anything else you put on a normal harddrive, everything but my OS.

 

[MurdaX]

Dude It wouldn't be wise to use your external as your main hard drive with all you important files and OS even if it was possible just get a big , better and faster hard drive for your PC or just swap out the 200gb hard in the external and put it in your PC and the 40gb in the external.

 

[Nicky Y]

Can you save and run games from an external hard drive? If so then that may solve my problems with installing a SATA internal HDD