The fact that your current system is running Windows 7 is irrelevant. If 
this is possible, you will have to do it through the BIOS of your new 
system. I suspect this is all doable, but you'll need to tell us the 
make and model of your system. Hopefully someone will then know if the 
BIOS supports what you want to do or not.

On 11/13/2015 05:51 AM, Stan Berman wrote:
> Hi All:
> Does anyone know if there is an easy way to force a Windows 7 PC to boot
> from an external drive?
> I have an old Windows XP system with some programs that have some
> utility but are no longer supported by the companies or the companies
> are out of existence.  In a couple cases, the authorization  involved
> the pc connecting to the company server to get the authorization  key
> which is probably somewhere in the system registry.
> I am not interested in messing around in the registry.
> So, I would like to pull the old system's drive and put it into an
> external cabinet, connect it to my Windows 7 machine and periodically
> use the software.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Stan
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