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Booting into Windows XP from an External FireWire Drive?

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tribbles

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I'm about to purchase an iMac Core Duo. However, at the moment, many of the applications that I want to use in OS X aren't available as universal binaries. But I'm currently using a Windows XP box, and I do have Windows versions of these applications.

What I'd like to do is have an external FireWire hard drive onto which I can install Windows XP. Then, I would like to be able to select the firewire hard drive as my startup disk and boot into Windows so I can work with the applications that aren't Macintel-native yet.

So my question is: Does Windows XP support booting from an external FireWire hard drive? If so, are there any issues that I need to watch out for?
 
if i'm thinking correctly, it's not really windows you need to be concerned about, it the motherboard. you need to have one which will let you boot from such a device. i'm not aware of a bios option that will let you boot from a firewire device.
 
Hmmmm. Interesting.

Well, the iMac (or any Mac for that matter - Intel included) does not use a BIOS, and all FireWire Macs support booting from an external FireWire drive. I'd like to think that this means I can boot Windows XP from the external FireWire drive. But I guess I really can't be sure until I try it.
 
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