Booting from external drives, Linux & Windoze
by RandomTroll from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6E2Y5)
My laptop is about to break, mechanically, completely. I plan to replace it. Likely replacements will come with Windoze, which I'd like to keep. I have external enclosures with USB-SATA adaptors to use external drives. I've never been able to boot off them; drives that boot when internal don't when external. Should I expect them too? Will Windoze put up with that? It's more pleasant than swapping drives.