Yes. Many Linux distributions can be easily booted from a USB Flash drive. With some modification, booting Windows XP is also possible.
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There is no reason you cannot load an operating system on a flash drive. However, getting the computer to recognize the flash drive and boot from it could be an issue.
The only way you can install an operating system without a BootableUSB drive or disc like Ubuntu, is to install and run a virtual machine program. VMware has a good free one just for this. It will run on top of your primary operating system. To elaborate, its like havinganother computer run inside your computer.
Direcet Installtion through CD/DVD or Removable Drive Remote Installation Services (RIS) Unattended Installation Image Deployment
if it is an external SATA drive then yes, otherwise it is not suggested and rarely works.
intially when we install operating system , we are suppose to select the drive where we want to install operating system, by this first of all the drive would be completed formatted and operating system install in it , so completely in our hand to select the drive to insall operating system and c drives always comes as default option to install operating system , which we can change to other drive.....if you hav any other question email me at abdul_island@yahoo.com
There is no special connection or setup needed. You simply set the drive you want to use for the operating system to boot first in the BIOS, then install the operating system to the appropriate drive. During the install process, you may also want to format the other drive.
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Format the drive and install a new operating system in its place.
There is no reason you cannot load an operating system on a flash drive. However, getting the computer to recognize the flash drive and boot from it could be an issue.
You can install Windows or Linux using a USB memory stick.
Use a special USB Drive with the OS intsall package
yes
Did you install Windows XP to the hard drive? New hard drives do not come with an operating system; to boot from it, you have to install one on it.
A brand new hard drive must be formatted for any operating system to recognize it. You should have some kind of utility program to format a new hard drive that came with your operating system.
You Format the Hard Drive then re install a operating system
Any windows OS you want.