Booting from eSata on a Dell e6400 latitude?

I have a new e6400 which my boss said he doesnt mind me using for personal stuff but would prefer I didnt load stuff onto the HDD (which is a locked SOE).

Is it possible to boot XP from a eSata drive?

I basically want to load some music applications and some games for when Im working away from home etc.

Will the eSata drive show up in the boot list, even though the machine is on a locked SOE? also i cant access the BIOS as that locked too.

My desktop guy said I will likely see an eSata drive show up at boot time, but not sure if this is true, dont want to spend $200 and not be able to use it.

Thanks !

 

The whole thing is moot since the comp is locked one way of the other. If it is locked to update to the local drive, I am sure that it will be for external (if you can make it work in the first place without any constraints).

My personal take is that it is a work/office system, just leave it be and get yourself your own comp. No headache when anything bad arises from using the work comp for private usage.

cheers ...

 

yeah i hear you, but the whole point is me not needing to carry 2 laptops everywhere i go. i have local admin rights, but dont want to install anything to the current sata internal.

the internal is locked at the operating system level, SOE. thats why i want to use an external, so im not messing personal with business. all im doing is utilising the hardware etc.

wouldnt an external ESATA just show up as a seperate bootable drive at boot up? surely the internal being locked at SOE level wont affect additional HDD's?

 

i had a look in the bios this morning (admin myself).

doesnt appear that esata shows up as a bootable option.

USB does. so im wondering if the bios considers usb/esata to be the same.

esata is definitely available, just doesnt show up in the list of boot options/order.

i think this will work if it recognises esata.

 

use portable apps and put them all on a usb.............