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Using Windows XP Upgrade edition with Boot Camp

If interested, this site describes how to enable installing WinXP onto a USB hard drive:

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When finished, an external bootable USB hard drive can (optionally) be the ONLY hard drive present in the system.
 
Originally posted by: vailr
If interested, this site describes how to enable installing WinXP onto a USB hard drive:

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When finished, an external bootable USB hard drive can (optionally) be the ONLY hard drive present in the system.
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Thanks, that's pretty slick! The EFI in the Intel-based Mac systems makes things a little more complicated; you still have to have a 5-gig NTFS partition on your main drive in order to boot off an external drive:

http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1015

Nice to know you can do it on XP-only systems too...
 
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