Installing XP through USB-to-IDE/SATA connector?

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Published on 2010-04-02T10:00:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 10:03 UTC
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Hello

To help someone reinstall a corrupt XP install on his IDE or SATA drive in a older desktop box (hence no Vista/W7), I was thinking of asking him to bring his harddrive and meet at Starbucks, and I would install a brand new XP by connecting it to my laptop, and booting it up with the XP install CD.

If someone's already used a USB-to-IDE/SATA connector such as this one by Sabrent:

  1. Does the XP CD accept installing Windows to an external IDE/SATA through USB?
  2. Does USB 2.0 provide enough power to run an external IDE/SATA drive, or do I need to provide the drive with its own power (in which case, how?)?

Thank you.

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