<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Google "mac osx boot usb" without the quotes. You'll find reference to a permissions problem using USB boot drives and a way to overcome it.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've just gotten a 64 bit XP Pro working with minimal hassle, using VMware Fusion. It even recognizes all four processors on my MacPro. Neet! But I'm using the internal boot drive.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Good luck with it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">-- Dick</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">Forever delight,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">Unix residing below,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">Always calm above.</FONT></P> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 29, 2007, at 12:04 AM, M K wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anyone out there gotten their Macbook to boot XP from an external USB drive?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thanks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mike</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>