How to boot OS off of portable hard drive?

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The Engie

Hey guys i'm wondering if its possible to boot a computer os off of a USB portable hard drive. Do you think i have to do any special formatting to make it boot through bios? Oh and what OS should i use? I have windows 7, vista and XP at my house. Can i copy from the computer running it? Thanks again

Answer
ya u can do that by using linux(ubuntu,fedora etc),windows versions have a lot of problems but u can try and u cant copy from the computer running it

Is there a way to install MS Visual Studio Express on a portable hard drive so I can run the program @ work?

Randall

We have Windows 7 at work and I don't have administrator access. I was wondering if I could install on my portable hard drive (not a usb), to practice creating practice c++ programs from work. Does anybody know if and how this can work?

Thanks.

Answer
No I'm afraid not, VSE needs to be installed,it load a large number of DLL's and other tools in to the system directories and modifies the registry. You would be better off using eclipse and gcc which can both be configured to run without being installed.

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