# External HardDrive OS?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-harddrive-os/195302>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [July 30, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-harddrive-os/195302 "2006-07-30T19:29:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![B3NKobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce7236/32.png) [@B3NKobe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/B3NKobe)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-harddrive-os/195302/1 "2006-07-30T19:29:57Z")

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Hey all.

Im considering buying a new Harddrive soon to get a little bit extra space and the fact that my HDD in my comp is about 8 years old and 20gigs.

Im considering purchasing an external HDD and was wondering am I able to install an operating system on that and have it boot up as the defualt OS on my comp? or are external HDD’s just for storage? I would install Win XP on it.

Ben =)