Thanks Colin...I'll save that for future reference...no PCI slots...only AGP.
I do have two hard drives in this PC one 80 and one 250. I'll just continue
to use the external drive for web building, backups and music.

Now another question...I have XP and Vista on the 250 partitioned drive (C
and E) The smaller drive is just for backup(D). When I get the full version
of Vista should I install it on D and kill the 5744 version from E or just
re-install XP on D and format C/E so that it will become all Vita? In other
words...who goes first onto the larger drive?

---always learning


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> An external hard drive needs to connect to the PCI bus, not the USB bus, in
> order to boot a Windows OS. I use external SATA drives connected to SATA
> ports on the back of my test computer. I booted Vista all through the beta
> this way because the arrangement is equivalent to having additional SATA
> connectors on the mobo. I beleive that the same arrangement works with scsi
> drives as well. USB drive enclosures cannot be used in the same way.
>
> "Iplant" <Iplant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:244A395C-64DC-41CB-8B5F-7B53671504A9@microsoft.com...
> > 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?
> > --
> > always learning
>
>