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Boot Windows or Linux from portable drive?
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Yes, you can do this.
When most PC’s start you can press say F10 for BIOS MENU
There will be a lot of shady looking options, but you should easily find Load Main BIOS location, and you can set which drive,disc,floppy to load off primary, then secondary.
You should be able to put your OS on the Harddrive and set the harddrive to primary bios loader, then you should be running it.
http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm
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Yep, you can just boot from the harddrive and you’re good to go.
Here’s a Linux distro I’d recommend http://viperamped.com/viewpage.php?page_id=10 it’s called Viper OS and based on the popular Ubuntu.
http://viperamped.com
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Try this
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
it allows you to install from a selection of Linux ‘distros’ straight to portable hard drives
It’s for USB flash drives really, but should work for any external USB drive too.
You’d probably be better off with a smaller pen/thumb/flash drive though because it’s easier to carry and a 4 GB one (costing about a tenner) should be plenty big enough.
PClinuxOS, Mepis, Puppy and Mint are the most suitable ones for a beginner IMO
http://viperamped.com
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Some say you can do it with windows, some say you cannot.
Don’t forget not all computers allow booting from the usb port, and other may have the bios password protected and not allow booting from any removable media.
Good luck
http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
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