External Hard Drive

[carterj]

This may be a silly question... however, I need to ask it anyway.

Is it possible to use an external hard drive as the only hard drive for a machine? I have a computer that does not have an internal drive and I want to use an external drive to load a OS, software, etc. Can this be done using an external device exclusively?

Thank you...

 

[kestrel1]

Possibly. I have never tried it, but it should work. Is this a USB drive? If so you need to be able to boot from USB.

 

[carterj]

It will be a USB drive. If the BIOS doesn't support booting from a USB device I suppose that it will not work. Is that correct?

 

[kestrel1]

Yep, You need the BIOS to be able to boot from USB for this too work. Do you know if your BIOS supports USB booting?

 

[carterj]

I am not sure about the BIOS. I think that I will just get an internal drive and go from there. Thanks for your reply...