Aioanei Rares wrote:
2. external HDD's wear out faster [...]
Really? No misunderstanding with SSD drives here? (Just wondering.)
Anyway, I agree, USB might make it look painful to use, but if you don't
have a spare internal drive around, it's still better than a LiveCD.
As Aioanei Rares said, Windows won't bother in this case, just boot from a
different drive by modifying the boot order in your BIOS setup or use the
special boot menu at boot-time if your BIOS provides one (F8 to access it here).
If you don't have this menu, it might be cumbersome to reconfigure the BIOS
setup every time, so you might want to consider replacing NTLDR's (the NT
<=5 boot LoaDeR) first stage with a more flexible boot loader (such as grub)
to provide you with such a menu.
Note that I heard Windows may start crying if it's not installed on the
first drive - I don't know if and when it has been fixed, I never tried on
XP, but keep that in mind in case something breaks. Grub can help again in
this case (by virtually reordering the drives). If you decide to go with
the external drive, it shouldn't be a problem.
Welcome to the community.
-thib
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