Re: Switching to a new primary hard drive

Posted: 01-12-2004, 09:38 PM

Cari \(MS-MVP\)

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Unless the motherboard has an option to boot from a USB drive, you cannot.

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"wytanaka" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5CB04F1A-3DF3-4CE7-A9C4-628BA2B2F1DE@microsoft.com...

> My computer has a 20 GB hard drive that is almost full. I have plugged in
> an 80 GB portable hard drive with USB 2.0 cable. Everything works fine.
> My question is how do I make the portable drive my primary C-drive and use
> the internal drive for back ups? I would greatly appreciate any advice.
> Thanks.

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Re: Switching to a new primary hard drive

Posted: 01-12-2004, 11:06 PM

Thank you for replying.

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