Hey guys.
I've been thinking about this - is it fairly straightforward to install an operating system onto a removable hard disk? Just for the purposes of troubleshooting really. It could be plugged in, change boot priority in bios and have it boot whatever OS off the portable disk for when my PC goes down (like now). Also could include basic apps like word, msn & firefox. Would linux be a good contender for this kind of thing? Or windows xp? Would like to keep it fairly 'lite' but I've saved 50gb at the start of the hard disk for emergencies.
Maybe I could be clever and install grub and have several 'emergency' OSs![]()


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) so I may get the microsoft smackdown. I'll have to see...



- you can use a Linux live CD and store the operating environemet on a USB stick - so you boot off the CD with the USB stick in place, and thye USB stick keeps all the settings so that you have a persisant environment (browser settings /home directory etc. This can be encrypted too. Essentially it means that you can use any computer wthat is set to boot off CD and has a USB port. The solution that boredom suggested sounds similar, but using the Windows OS, but not having used it myself, I can't compare the two.
