Windows Vista How to Make a Vista External Drive Bootable on a Windows 8.1 Computer?

[Ted01]

Recently I had to take out my Vista drive and pit it into a holder where now it is like an external drive.

I want to boot that drive but when I attach it to my new computer (64 bit Windows 8.1) it doesn't boot.

I really want to run that drive again and while I can see all the data on that drive , it doesn't run. Therefore no applications work.

Is there a way to make that drive a Bootable drive with my new 64 bit machine? ??

It was a Bootable drive before when it was in the other laptop. So why won't it boot when it is plugged into a USB port.
I see it starts to boot but than up comes a back &white screen that wants you to chose various ways to start (safe mode etc).but none of them works and the computer reboots and wants to forget about that USB drive....

Help..


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[jcgriff2]

Put the drive back into the computer that it was in & try to boot it.

Vista cannot be booted from an external USB drive.

 

[Ted01]

Can't put it back into that computer. It is broken. But I would really like to run some of the applications again.
Must be a way. Why can't Vista be bootable on an external drive?


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