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    Booting my AW17 from a USB/IDE adaptor - Possible or not?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Trabant Dave, Dec 6, 2014.

  1. Trabant Dave

    Trabant Dave Notebook Consultant

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    Having got my AW17 set exactly as I want it, I was wondering if it would be possible to install Windows 10 to a spare HDD and use a usb adapter such as this one to boot from?

    IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 | Maplin

    Equally, I have the default drive from my machine ( I have replaced the original HDD with 2 x 512 SSDs and a 512gb mSATA ) with Windows 8.1 on it and would not mind being able to have a rummage around, although my initial impression was 'less than spectacular' I'll have a play with it and see if it grows on me!

    Anyone else tried this, and with what level of success?

    Regards

    Dave
     
    Trabant Dave, Dec 6, 2014
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