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Thanks. I will look over that and see what I can make of it. I am concerned, mostly, that running that line from comman will mess up the windows install on the host computer though. Should I be?

I just want to reiterate that this is a hard drive. It's just in an enclosure at this time. It's primary function is hard disk storage and it is not a USB storage device. USB is just the interface here.

Ya just can't escape trolling. Ran through this http://www.ngine.de/article/id/8 to create an XP install. Have not burned it or tried it yet. The only down side is that of no page file. I will read through http://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.php

Also, presuming that a forum is dead because noone else answered your post in a 4+6 hours is a bit pessimistic.... See the other thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=131021&hl= jaclaz Your post didn't help and wasn't on topic. If you could remove it that'd be great. Thanks alot!

Hey all. New to the forums. I apologize if this is not in the right thread and would have no qualms if a mod needed to relocate it. The jist of the story here is that I have a 40GB Laptop HDD enclosed in an external casing that I can connect to my pc via USB. The drive is formatted with NTFS. I have an old Dell Inspiron 1100, which cannot boot to USB and currently does not have a functional CDROM drive. I want to try, just for the heck of it, to install Windows to this 40GB HDD and then slap it into the Inspiron. I know it probably won't boot into Windows or may BSOD but even if that is the case I'd have Windows on an external drive that I could carry around with me. I have an image of the install disc that I mount with Daemon Tools. The drive is G: and the HDD's drive is F:. When the image is mounted and the drive is attached I try to run G:\I386\winnt32.exe /syspart:F: /tempdrive:F: /makelocalsource /noreboot but receive an error from Vista stating that WINNT32 has known compatibility issues and that the version on this computer is newer than that on the disc. I guess I may be overlooking something here but I am not trying to install this OS onto my computers HDD but the HDD in the enclosure. I thought that stating F: is the target in the command line would have let Windows know this... My fiance's laptop has XP on it but I wanted to do this here just in case anything goes wrong. I could just reinstall Vista as it is on it's own patition. Any help or advice here would be appreciated.

I am trying to install Windows ON the external drive not the computer it's connected to. Although, I don't know if that's what you're trying to say as your English is a bit too broken for me. :\ I looked over what you linked. Well, I am still looking it over to be exact. PLoP looks nice but I wonder if it'd work for me. I cannot get into Windows at all on the Inspiron 1100. The admin account and user account have become corrupted and I cannot login or boot to Active@'s Password Recovery tool because I do not know if I'll ever be able to boot to USB with the PC since it is not supported in BIOS.

Hey all. New to the forums. I apologize if this is not in the right thread and would have no qualms if a mod needed to relocate it. The jist of the story here is that I have a 40GB Laptop HDD enclosed in an external casing that I can connect to my pc via USB. The drive is formatted with NTFS. I have an old Dell Inspiron 1100, which cannot boot to USB and currently does not have a functional CDROM drive. I want to try, just for the heck of it, to install Windows to this 40GB HDD and then slap it into the Inspiron. I know it probably won't boot into Windows or may BSOD but even if that is the case I'd have Windows on an external drive that I could carry around with me. I have an image of the install disc that I mount with Daemon Tools. The drive is G: and the HDD's drive is F:. When the image is mounted and the drive is attached I try to run G:\I386\winnt32.exe /syspart:F: /tempdrive:F: /makelocalsource /noreboot but receive an error from Vista stating that WINNT32 has known compatibility issues and that the version on this computer is newer than that on the disc. I guess I may be overlooking something here but I am not trying to install this OS onto my computers HDD but the HDD in the enclosure. I thought that stating F: is the target in the command line would have let Windows know this... My fiance's laptop has XP on it but I wanted to do this here just in case anything goes wrong. I could just reinstall Vista as it is on it's own patition. Any help or advice here would be appreciated.