First post, by Destroy
I've been trying to get my modern Toshiba laptop(2015 with Win10) to boot to WinXP or Vista64 which are installed onto an external USB hard drive(SSD, thumb drive would work too).
I can get really close but the OS crashes halfway through boot startup, about 10 seconds after the Windows graphic appears. This is on SSD so things go very fast, so it is booting pretty far.
There are many ways online showing it can be done but most are installing Win7 and I'm certainly not having much luck with XP or Vista.
I'm nearing the point of giving up and simply assuming my laptop is not compatible enough to boot to an external drive.
Just wondering if anyone here has had success with this challenge.
Edit: Typos and clarity