Booting from USB drive

I have just bought an external hard drive and would like to play around
with some linux distros. My motherboard doesn't support booting from a usb
drive (but does from a usb key. I wondered if it was possible to use the
external drive using a boot manager on the main hard drive to load from the
external drive?

Thanks for your help

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