Using a flash drive as a hard drive

Quote from WinstonTJ:

If this hasn't already been brought up - Windows Activation will be a royal PITA. You will constantly be asked to reactivate windows until finally you have exhausted your activations and even the folks in the India Activataion Center won't be able to help.

Also, SATA is going to be faster than USB and once your OS is loadded and running there isn't much difference where it sits because the OS does not access the HDD often.
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Windows Activation plays no role in this... certainly not in Windows 7.

I just bought a new HP 8540w Win 7 Pro with USB 3.0 for about $2,000...
And have been playing around with it.

I cloned the primary drive to an Intel X25-m SSD...
Housed in a Vantec External Enclosure connected by USB 3.0...
And the HP 8540w WILL boot and run off the external SSD...
And it runs about as fast as a Velociraptor...
No where near SSD speeds, but faster than a laptop drive.

The big issue with USB flash media...
Is that Windows will only recognize one partition on "removable media"...
So if I just copy the entire Win 7 DVD to a Kingston flash drive...
It does boot off the USB flash drive, but it runs slower than even a laptop drive...
Not sure if there are very fast USB flash drives out there.

There are several ways like using special drivers...
To get Win XP and 7 to boot off USB flash media as if it were a true hard drive.

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7512
 
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