Start menu in the USB device.

I'm going to install a new hard drive on my computer, its an ET1161-01 I have all my info on a hard disk that uses a USB port, I will be able to restart this device? I was told that not all computers will restart with an external USB key. Thanks for your help

I think you'll find that booting from a USB device is not limited by the machine (as far as I KNOW most of the machines in the past four years or so will boot to a USB device), but by the operating system.
As far as I know the only external device that Windows starts from is an eSATA drive.

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