one silly question !!!!!!!!

[mariner]

my desktop will soon be migrating to my dads office.till i get my new rig i will be using my laptop.i m planning to change my desktops 80gb hdd into an external usb hdd as all my stuff is loaded in that

what i want to know that can i boot my laptop with that external hdd ?

laptop has xp home and the planned external hdd has xp pro.

[QwertyManiac]

if u have an ide HDD install XP on it and then back up.

[Choto Cheeta]

New genration LAPTOPs does support that option... see here (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Laptops_Notebooks/Q_20934463.html) & here (http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/HDDProblems2.htm#dell)...

but u know what MS (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usb-boot.mspx)says about it.??

[expertno.1]

well thats not possible in laptops but still u can use internal hdd of yopur laptop

[rajas]

Many new motherboards from Intel(not sure of others) support USB BOOT. Make sure the Option is available in ur laptop and enabled too. Then u can try booting from it.

[mariner]

thanx guys. thanx saurav for that informative link. will check the bios of the laptop and see.

cheers