Can I Boot My System As Secondary Mean From External Western Digital Disk?

I have WD My Book usb External Drive where i backed-up my whole hard drive's data.

Will i be able to boot-up my system from external usb hard drive?

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probably

Posted 2008-05-28T10:09:02Z
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If your BIOS support USB boot device than yes.

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I don't need your assumptions - i need answers

Posted 2008-05-28T16:52:37Z
 
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It's not an assumptions. it a fact, you need a BIOS capable to start from a USB device in order to start the computer from a USB device.

 

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i was talking to ricardo2 - not you, so relax Wink

Posted 2008-05-29T20:14:44Z
 
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I saw after I wrote the answer that it wasn't attended to me, and I deleted it. For some reason it wasn't deleted. 

no harm intended Smile

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