hmmmm.... I just went into office max (the best thing we have for a computer store in cottonwood) and the computer guy there said that you can't boot off of an External hard Drive. Well, another option I have (if that is true), is to copy the live CD onto the ED then to boot off of a flash drive and on the FD tell it the information is on the ED. I know this is possible because I had a linux friend doing something similar to this. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I'm doing my research to find one of these online and I am unsure of the > search terms. What exactly should I enter to find one in which I can insert > and remove standard desktop hard drives? Would it be 5.25" enclosure or > 3.5"? > > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> As you all know my hard drive is no more and all of my spares are kaput >> as well. I was thinking that instead of an internal hard drive I would get >> an external one. Then, I could always have my computer with me:!) I have a >> NetVista computer. Do any of you know if I will have a problem booting from >> an external hard drive? When I initialy boot and press F-12 it goes into >> boot media order and says that removable media is in the boot order so I >> suppose it's all good. What do you think? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: