Advice please - portable external hard-drive with on board computer?

zzzLazyDaisy

Hi, I'm not very technical so I hope this makes sense.

I visit friends quite often and have access to a computer when I'm there.

I've been told that it is possible to get a portable hard-drive that has its own stand alone software so I can clone my pc and plug it into the computer at the other end, effectively allowing me to access the programs and documents on my pc through their computer.

It would be great if I could do this, but I have no idea what I am looking for...

Any advice or input would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Daisy

tronator

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Hi, I'm not very technical so I hope this makes sense.

I visit friends quite often and have access to a computer when I'm there.

I've been told that it is possible to get a portable hard-drive that has its own stand alone software so I can clone my pc and plug it into the computer at the other end, effectively allowing me to access the programs and documents on my pc through their computer.

It would be great if I could do this, but I have no idea what I am looking for...

Any advice or input would be really appreciated.

I think you're talking about Portableapps. You can install all the software from this site to a normal USB stick and run it from there on any Windows PC. No need for a special hard disk.

If you're talking to have a complete operation system on it and boot from it, then it is not that easy with Windows, if possible at all. Ubuntu or any other Linux is much better for doing this. You just select the hard disk (internal or external) during the installation and there you go...

enigma52

if they have virtual pc installed you can carry your virtual copy of windows xp, vista etc on a pendrive and run on their pc no problem

zzzLazyDaisy

Hi thank you - portable apps looks like it could be the thing!

That's brilliant, thanks!