Installing XP onto external hardrive. is it possible?

i have a C2D mackbook pro with the small 100gig 7200rpm hard drive to gain as much power as possible. with that in mind is it possible to install a bootable windows XP onto an external drive thats connnected to my macbook? i want to avoid having to partision my drive. any solutions would be greatly received.
thanks

XP will allow you to install on external drive but it's unusable due to technical limitations with the XP kernel - it does a bus reset at boot which kills its connection to the external drive and thus ends up blue screening at boot.
You might try Vista though - it has chance of working.

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