Live USB on a external HD instead of USB pendrive

[marrrriej]

Hi,

Here is my situation.

I have a machine which i have to test with a live version of ubuntu 9.10. I used a usb pendrive for some time but it failed after rebooting a few times.

Now i try to install a live version on a external HD of 160 GB. I installed the ubuntu 9.10 with unetbootin on the external HD.

When I boot from the HD I get the error: NTLDR is Missing.

Is it possible to install of load the ubuntu 9.10 version on a external HD. I found some stuff about

- using another USB stick with the live version and install from that USB to the external HD.
- using the live cd to install. But I don't have a CD drive on the machine.

Do anybody know if its possible? Or what i can do with de error?

Thanks,
Marrrriej

[yancek]

When I boot from the HD I get the error: NTLDR is Missing.

Where is windows on this machine? In the above, do you mean booting from the internal hard drive? and that is where you have windows? did you install Ubuntu Grub bootloader to the master boot record of the external? You should be able to use a flash drive with Ubuntu on it to install to the external, just make sure you know which drive is which so you get the external and install the bootloader on the external.

Also, if you have a flash drive, open a terminal and run the command: sudo fdisk -l (lower case letter L) to get partition information to post.