Connecting an external hard drive to a computer before turning on the system can confuse the device when loading the operating system. When a computer hangs after the BIOS splash screen while being ...

His friend has a laptop with a 6 Gig (I think) hard drive. He wants a more space and doesn't know what to do. My brother suggested an external HDD but he didn't know if you could boot to one or not?

Externe can’t boot his laptop from a CD or a flash drive. He asked the Answer Line forum for help. When you turn on a PC, you usually want and expect it to check the hard drive or SSD and, from there, ...

I'm looking to get an external bootable HDD to plug into my company laptop to run its own OS and be completely independent from the "in laptop" environment. I know my laptop supports bootable USB, ...