]> http://www.moka5.com/node/695 Comments for "Help with installing Bare Metal on USB Hard Drive" en http://www.moka5.com/node/695#comment-783 Selecting "normal" will make the USB device "portable" since the MBR and the bootable partition will be on the USB device. Make sure you select the correct device during installation. You can press the F5 option once you are in the baremetal installer and use "fdisk -l" to determine which the devices mappings. If you are unsure, you may want to disable/power off your main disk during the installation. Selecting "dual-boot" will allow GRUB to select the Windows parititon or the bare-metal partition if you are sharing the disk. Hope this helps. Kevin Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:00:16 -0700 http://www.moka5.com/node/695 I have a 120gb external hard drive and a dell computer with USB-boot enabled. I have downloaded and burned the bare metal edition. I would like to install Moka5 bare metal edition on my hard drive and then install Vista Ultimate inside it. I have a couple of questions before I begin. If I were to install it on my USB drive, what would happen to my existing boot.ini file? What option should I choose normal or dual-boot? Any problems with this, for example, would it screw up my currently installed Windows MCE 2005 version on my computer? Any performance issues? Thanks Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:17:36 -0800