I'm wondering about experimenting with my Chromebook, and want to know if what I want to do is even possible.

[Waldo226]

So, I have the Acer c720 Chromebook, and I was wondering about taking out the SSD that's in there, formatting it, and adding Windows to it. Either that or removing it entirely and booting off an external hard drive.

 

Would this even be possible?  

 

 

[harrynowl]

People have got windows running but drivers are flakey and there's no power management.

[theelitegamer]

If you could make it bootform a USB or DVD-Rom very much so, but the hardest part is figuring out what button to press while it starts.

[EpicAdom]

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It's probably soldered to the motherboard, so you wouldn't be able to remove it.

 

You can install Linux on chromebooks tho

[JAKEBAB]

90% sure there bios is locked so without some sort of "hack" it won't be possible.

[techguru]

you can install linux's on chromebooks

but not really windows

as for the bios lock..google released that

[nathanielcs]

Not sure if I would get my comment removed for posting a link, but google is making it easier to boot windows via USB

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In a blog post on Google+, Chromium guru François Beaufort revealed that the Chrome OS team is adding a debugging feature that will allow any Chromebook to boot from a USB key when started up in developer mode.While it's not currently impossible to run something else alongside Chrome OS, it's something of a convoluted process that involves terminal commands and other actions that send get non-advanced users into a spin.

Hope this helps