Boost from external hard drive not allowed

Just bought a new Maxtor 200GB, and I did mount it in a external case, the store didn't have firewire boxes so I'm using the USB2 one.
I did copy an image of my internal hard drive to it to "clean" it, rebooting from the hard drive, BUT even though the system is seen on the hard drive it doesn't boot from it after selecting it and restart.
Today I did try to instal a clean system on it and it doesn't allow it neither.
Is it because of USB2 and I could solve it changing the box for a firewire one or is it because of a SATA disk and there's no solution? (or anyhthing else)

No problem on "hello' and "thanks"
I'm no hardware expert but it also looks like you'll need to use a SATA drive enclosure:
http://www.satasite.com/external-3-5-sata-hard-drive-enclosure.htm
-mj
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