No..  Not without a lot of massaging and trickery for Windows.  First, Windows wasn't 
designed to be installed to an external drive, and second, your current Windows install 
is trying to load and run with the motherboard IDE driver, not a USB setup.  So bottom 
line, this particualr install wouldn't run without a lot of modification and repair 
by a very experienced user who fully understands what has to be done to get Windows 
to run externally on USB devices.  We won't even go into the difficulties with an 
unstable USB buss that can crash Windows when an unexpected disconnect occurs.

See here;

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usb-boot.mspx

and this gives you an idea of what it takes to even get XP to run from an external 
USB drive:

http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176

I don't know of anyone trying it with W2K...  BTW, HDD 0 is what Windows will boot 
from or where the boot files are always located unless you had originally specified 
another physical drive in the boot order.  So of course now, it will also fail to 
boot as the USB drive isn't the same drive enumeration.  (as explained in the first 
link above)






On Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 9:35 am, Gordon Lee wrote:

>My old dual O/S HD is now a USB external HD.

>The new PC sees it as HD 1.

>Bios can be set to boot from HD1 or USB HD.

>Trying each gives message: "Verifying DMI data-----------ISK boot failure, insert 

>system disc and press Enter"

>Is it not possible  run  the old HD  this way? 

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