The only way any operating system in the world can boot from an external hardrive unless you develop your own BIOS and Operating system is by connecting it via E-SATA. E-SATA is short for External Serial ATA conection. It looks like a small a short but wide usb port with to notches on the sides and the cable ends are flat and wide as well with matching notches. You can but a PCI or PCI-E E-SATA port card for desktop or if its a laptop you have to pretty much pay more than what its worth or buy one with it. Also E-SATA bootting only works as NTFS nothing else and it cannot be raid, mirors, striped, or anything but normal.
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If you are using Win2000 or XP you can use the Computer Management Tool (Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management) and select Disk Management. The drive name can then be changed by right clicking on the drive you want to change and selecting "change drive letter..." This procedure only works in the OS is not booted from the external drive.
Disk Management
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Your maxtor 3200 Likely has a bad sector.
In our old computer I put a SEAGATE 500 gig External Hard Drive. The computer was windows XP Is it a working chance to use the external hard drive From The system i first installed it.
By using the tool Drive Manager 4.06
Burnt the i386 folder from your harddrive onto a disk and that's it.
Sometimes, depending on the disk and the kind of xp, i.e. professional, home, buisness, also if its a 64 bit
No, XP will format the disk if that's needed.
No particular action is needed. Just boot from the Windows XP disk. It will prompt you to format the hard drive and install Windows XP. Windows XP will supply a generic driver for the video card.
You cannot create an installation disk from an XP install. If it were possible it would also likely be a violation of the user agreement.