Mount the operating system to a mobile hard disk

Mount the operating system to a mobile hard disk. 1. Check whether the installation conditions are met. When creating a mobile hard disk to start the system, first check whether the motherboard of your host supports mobile hard disk startup. The method is as follows: press F2 or Del at startup to go to BIOS settings. Open the Advanced BIOS Features setting item and find the First boot device subitem to see if it carries the USB-HDD (USB mobile hard drive) boot option. If this option is available, your motherboard can support USB mobile hard drive to boot the system. Www.2cto.com 2, write boot information for mobile hard drive if in the test above, your mobile hard drive fails to boot to the DOS system, it means your mobile hard drive does not support the USB-HDD boot function. Don't worry, it doesn't mean you can't make it. We can use third-party software USBoot and Partitionmagic to write boot information for the mobile hard disk. Connect the mobile hard disk in Windows XP and start the USBoot program. You can see the mobile hard disk model in the list. Select mobile hard drive, click "Click here to select work mode", and select "HDD mode" from the pop-up menu ". Then click Start. A warning is displayed. After confirmation, the software starts to write related information to the USB hard disk. Unplug the mobile hard drive when you prompt "unplug the USB flash drive. Then the program will prompt "please plug in the USB flash disk again", you need to connect the mobile hard disk to the host again, so that the software will write the boot information to the USB hard disk, and prompt that the operation is successful. Www.2cto.com because USBoot has some compatibility problems with large-capacity USB mobile hard disks, you need to use Partitionmagic 8.0 to fix the partition. After you start PartitionMagic, the software will automatically prompt you to find a partition error in the USB hard disk and ask if you want to fix it. After you confirm, PartitionMagic will automatically repair the partition. After the completion, right-click the partition list marked as "USBHDD-BOOT", select the pop-up menu command "Convert → FAT32", command, OK, and then click the "application" button in the lower left corner of the window, partitionMagic begins to operate the USB hard disk. At last, the program prompts you to restart the computer and select "yes" to restart the computer. 3. After the system installation partition is written to the mobile hard disk as boot information, there is still a lot of space unallocated on the mobile hard disk. You can open the "Control Panel> Management Tools> Computer Management" item, expand the "Storage> hard disk management" subitem, right-click the unallocated space, select the "Create" command from the pop-up menu, and follow the prompts to complete partitioning and formatting. During the operation, it is best to separate a system partition to install Windows XP, while other partitions are used to store data. After partitioning, right-click the first system partition and select the "Mark hard disk partition as active" command in the pop-up menu to use the partition to guide the system. During the operation, be sure to mark the system partition as active in the disk management tool. Otherwise, you will not be able to perform normal boot operations after installing Windows XP. 4. Install Windows XP on a mobile hard disk. Now we need to install Windows XP on a mobile hard disk. The installation method is almost the same as that on a common hard disk, however, you should First set "First boot device" in BIOS to "CD-ROM" before installation. After using the Windows XP installation CD boot, select the drive letter of the Windows XP system to be installed as the partition of the mobile hard disk system. After confirming the installation program, you can start copying the installation file. After the copy file is complete, the Windows XP installer requires that the system be restarted. After the restart, you need to enter the BIOS again and set "First boot device" to "USB-HDD" to start, in this way, you can use the mobile hard drive to boot the system and complete the installation of Windows XP. When you select the Windows XP system to install partitions, some mobile hard disks may be incompatible, and the Windows XP installer will prompt that the partition cannot be installed. When you encounter such problems, you can use the "Windows XP Universal Ghost" installation CD provided on the Internet to directly use the Ghost program to install the system for the mobile hard disk, thus skipping the partition detection process of Windows XP. After Windows XP is successfully installed on a mobile hard drive, note that it can only be used on a computer with the same hardware configuration. If you want to use it on all your computers, you can install Windows 98. If you are interested, you can even install dual systems on the mobile hard disk, add Dos boot mode, or add DOS one-click recovery and other functions. With a mobile hard drive with Windows XP, you can perform data backup, quick recovery, disk management, and other operations as needed.