how do I make my portable hard drive bootable?

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gabe

if there is a way to just copy the windows 7 partition on my computer to it, that would be preferable. I don't have the install disk, because my laptop never came with one.

Answer
First off, you CANNOT run a Windows operating system on a USB external hard drive. You can clone a mirror copy of it or create a backup on the drive. Secondly, you would need to set up boot from a USB device in your bios IF the motherboard supports it.

Can i use a windows 7 home premium installation disc on an eternal drive on my mac?

Drew

I would like to run windows 7 home premium on my mac using bootcamp, however i only have 40 gb of space left and therefore i do not want to partition my drive. what i would like to do is buy a copy of windows 7 home premium and install it on an external drive, that i would simply plug in and restart to run windows. is this possible, and if so how do i do it?

Answer
You can use a Virtual Machine. Try VMware
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
It does require you to sign up, don't worry it is free.
It will allow you to install Mac, Windows and Linux/Unix onto a portable hard drive.

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