Re: Booting from external hard drive
- From: "Earle Horton" <earleh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:39:17 -0700
I'm going to have to rethink this. These systems out of the box won't set
up to an external USB drive. I am not sure what would happen if you copied
or moved a previously set up disk to an external USB enclosure. There are
articles on the web that purport to allow setting up XP to one, but iirc
they tinker with the order of loading drivers at boot time. If you moved
the disk, it would still have the conventional order of loading drivers, and
that might not work.
You would also have the problem of XP demanding a bunch of drivers that you
may not have, when it "wakes up" on your HP.
It is not strictly true, as one of these other fellows said, that you cannot
boot from a drive in an external HD enclosure. If it is a ATA, SATA or SCSI
drive there is no problem doing so.
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Earle Horton -- earleh@xxxxxxxxxx
"operaflute" <operaflute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh, I forgot about the OEM catch... And yes, my enclosure is indeed USB.
Dangit!
Grr - everything is so DIFFICULT!
"Earle Horton" wrote:
Vista or XP won't boot from USB, and most of the external drive
enclosures
you are likely to see nowadays are USB.
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Earle Horton -- earleh@xxxxxxxxxx
"operaflute" <operaflute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Okay, this is new territory for me so I have lots of questions. I've
got
an
XP machine (Dell) that's dying (motherboard) and a new Vista Preminum
machine
(HP). Can I take the drive out of the Dell, put it in an enclosure,
choose
it to boot from in the boot menu, and then be using the old hard drive
as
if
it IS the new computer?
I want to install/make some changes on the old machine/old drive but it
requires a re-boot, which I can't do on the old machine (I can't turn
it
off
or it won't start again.)
Same question, but maybe clearer - when you boot from an external
drive,
are
you working completely from that drive as if that drive is now the
internal
one?
.
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