Installing on an External Hard Drive

Posted: 06-26-2006, 05:11 PM

caleb

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Hi, I installed Windows Vista on an external hard drive and now I am having
troubles. After rebooting, the windows would not boot up from the hard drive,
so I boot into my windows xp on my internal and I want to remove it from my
external. I cannot do that either. I wonder, how do I effectively remove
Windows Vista unless I can still run it from an External, also remove it from
my boot screen.

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Colin Barnhorst

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Re: Installing on an External Hard Drive

Posted: 06-26-2006, 05:27 PM

Using Disk Management you can override the disk-in-use message and format
the external drive (allow some time for the second requestor to appear).
Using VistaBootPro you can remove the Vista entries from the boot options
menu.

"caleb" <caleb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:539D70B2-5A63-461A-BF5A-F6D0FF25F022@microsoft.com...

> Hi, I installed Windows Vista on an external hard drive and now I am
> having
> troubles. After rebooting, the windows would not boot up from the hard
> drive,
> so I boot into my windows xp on my internal and I want to remove it from
> my
> external. I cannot do that either. I wonder, how do I effectively remove
> Windows Vista unless I can still run it from an External, also remove it
> from
> my boot screen.

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