Charles Scaglione -> August Abolins said..

 CS> Most modern Bios' allow booting from USB.  The problem,
 CS> however, is that without a hack, Windows will not boot from an
 CS> external device such as a flash drive or hard drive.  That's a
 CS> Microsoft thing.

I didn't realize that an external hdd configured as a full primary with
Windows would not boot.  I have had no trouble using a flash drive in the
past to boot to a prompt inorder to rebuild the registry and fix a
corrupted NTLDR file, however.

All the more reason to navigate towards something other than Windows.

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