Ken,

Are you serious? If so, can I boot my machine from the external SATA->USB abomination? And what does that do to performance?

I have all of my data backed up. However, it took me 6 months to set up my laptop environment and I don't want to spend another 6 months recreating it. I was hoping I could just plug it into another machine.

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