Macbook & External Firewire Hard Drive Question

[mystic]

Exploring a number of options ...... looking at a s/hand Macbook with a smallish internal 60Gb HDD running OSX 10.5. I already have a Lacie external 80Gb Firewire drive used with an earlier G4 powermac. I'd like to run the Macbook's drive with its OSX 10.5 system + hook up the Lacie external drive with Windows Vista installed (have copy of restore discs). I'm thinking this should be possible - am I missing something? - any advice or pointers from you knowledgable Techie Tossers appreciated.

 

[mr_magicfingers]

You'll either need parallels or boot camp to be able to run windows. Certainly should be fine to do so off an external drive.

 

[cookie]

all i can tell you is that i have run XP from a USB flash drive under Fusion.

works ok, but is faster if Windows is on the internal HDD. currently using an nLite, stripped down version (7.7GB fully patched SP3 + mapsource, CN v.10).

also windows 7 beta, but pretty bare @ 6.61GB.