Windows 7 on External Harddrive?

I suppose you could but any external drives are going to be slower than internal drives. Get ready for that. I haven’t tried a dual boot system before but you could probably configure your BIOS to boot from a different drive pretty easily.

I’ve used win 7 and while I didn’t perform any engineering benchmarks, I did notice a marked improvement over Vista.

Also expect between 2–5 hardcore Linux guys to come along to berate you for using Windows. That happens everywhere.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic I had expected the slowness of the USB drive. I’m not too worried about that :) All I want to do is give Win7 a try without messing up my PC’s existing set up.

I know that my bios is already configured as you stated. All I do is press F10 and it gives me a list of devices I can boot from, including CD/DVD and External drives. :)

I’m looking forward to it. It’ll run faster for sure.

For the first time in years, So am I. After the disappointment of Windows Vista, and ME, and the problems I had with XP and 2000… The things I’ve heard about 7 lead me to believe that Microsoft is doing something right :D

I thought XP was one of the best OS’ they’d ever made.
It’s just old and done now. Microsoft needs Windows 7 to be spectacular.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic I was actually refering to the fact that, without dos box, some of the best games ever made (Yes, I’m a retro gamer) don’t work quite right :P I agree about XP through.

you would be better off running win 7 inside of a virtual machine. It wouldn’t affect you existing win vista install. This is easier then messing with booting from an external drive and formatting it correctly. Although I am not really sure about the performance gains, because your virtualizing instead of booting into that OS.

I have been able to virtualize win 7 and its really good. And if anyone comes in here and says that OSX is better because it doesn’t get viruses is lying.