External USB Hard drive install.

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    Toko

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    I've been working on installing XP on an external usb drive via the One.

    So far so good, I have a modified install cd that allow external instillation, I get it to read the drive as C:, but that's as far as it gets in the installer.

    The reason is because it says I have to reformat the SSD, which I REALLY do not want to do, it took quite a bit of time to finally get ubuntu tweaked to boot in a relatively short amount of time.

    Anyway, the question is: what should you I do? And is there a way to save the SSD's information?


    I've thought of opening up the one and disabling the SSD during the process, but I really want to wait till I get in the 1 gig of ram I ordered to risk breaking 400 dollars.
     
    Toko, Aug 7, 2008
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    I have installed OS X fine on my ext HDD. Its obviously a different OS, but it can be done, not a hardware limitation.
    I am going to install vista on another partition on the same drive later today.
    Rory
     
    rory, Aug 8, 2008
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    @ Toko
    Its called norton ghost or u can also use acronis.

    Just boot norton ghost from a usb drive then image your drive to another usb drive.
    Then you can just format and when you want to put ubuntu back on just re-image your drive back.

    But double check which version of norton ghost or acronis does linux.
     
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    rory

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    damn just tried vista, and it wont install to fucking hdd...
    piece of crap
    and now its teling me my ssd is too small, even though i had installed vista directly on it before... but stupid really
    Rory
     
    rory, Aug 8, 2008
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