Can I use Bootcamp with Vista on external HD?

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lloydi

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I have an image of Windows Vista which I have run under Parallels off of an external FireWire Drive. Because of graphics card limitations, I can't run some of the development tools that I want to experiment with (Expression Blendd, WPF, etc)

Is it possible to use Bootcamp such that it opens a Parallels Image off of an external drive? I really cannot spare the space on my main HD on the laptop, so if I could run it off the external drive with no graphical limitations that would be brilliant.

Is this possible?
 
lloydi said:
Is it possible to use Bootcamp such that it opens a Parallels Image off of an external drive? I really cannot spare the space on my main HD on the laptop, so if I could run it off the external drive with no graphical limitations that would be brilliant.

Is this possible?
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At this time, I don't believe that Parallels will open a bootcamp Vista image. XP will work, but not Vista.
 
miker51 said:
At this time, I don't believe that Parallels will open a bootcamp Vista image. XP will work, but not Vista.
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Ah no, that's not quite what I mean - I want to move that Vista image (currently Parallels) and use it in Bootcamp, not open a bootcamp image in Parallels. Make sense?

The key thing is knowing whether I can use Bootcamp to boot off another HD?
 
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