windows on usb???

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#1 December 26, 2008

if i install windows xp/vista on a hdd and then remove that hard drive and put it in a caddy and edit grub can i boot it up from the usb caddy without alterations or not?

#2 December 26, 2008

No. However, you can use BartPE to do what you want: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Cheers,

Herman

#3 December 26, 2008

I got XP working pretty good on a flash drive using Virtual Box with Ubuntu as host.