"Iplant" wrote

> sorry...I recently purchased a W/D Book (250) external hard drive...seems
> to
> work great on XP but Vista is now very slow to boot up. The screen is
> black
> for a good 20 seconds before loading. Does anyone know why? Anything I
> could adjust?
>
> Also; I am curious, could I install Vista to this external hard drive
> using
> the full version and leave XP installed?


I have seen this effect on one system with XP, with the external WD drive
attached at boot up there is a 30 second delay before it boots. It's a BIOS
issue.

No, Vista can't run from an external hard drive.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]