Booting xp from external drive.

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I am sure this question has been asked before.
How do you install XP on an external usb drive or card and telling the computer this in boot.ini.
 
This is not possible. When windows xp boots, it reinitializes all USB devices. When doing so, all usb devices are momentarily disabled and turned off. When this happens, windows loses access to the drive it is installed on, and crashes.
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above from this thread

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the thread also has links to download hirens boot cd which has minixp and/or some programs that will allow you to do this, read thoroughly

HERE has instructions on how to install xp on an external drive, but does not mention the boot.ini as this is xp and not later os's

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