Re: Boot Vista from external 2.5 sata USB enclosure

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Hi,

What you've read is correct. The throughput for the USB connection is far too slow for it to work, and Vista does not/will not support installing to or booting from this type of connection.

As to your problem, it may simply be the sata cable that is bad, I'd try a different one before bothering with the eSata method.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"davemacD" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:34f0951bb0e35f028bcbdc3d212bf2bd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hey there folks, I've had a problem with my laptop recently and I'm
unable to boot from my hard drive.

I can't boot off my regular internal 2.5 sata drive (BIOS doesn't
recognize any drives as being installed, no hard drive found type
errors), the drive itself is in perfect working order (installed it into
another laptop and Vista booted flawlessly on the first try) but it
seems the Harddrive interface on the motherboard is whats fried. So as a
temporary workaround I bought an external drive enclosure for the drive
and was hoping to just boot from USB and use that temporarily but Vista
keeps crashing during start-up. After digging around on the net for a
while I've found some posts that say you can't boot Vista from USB, you
can do it from an eSata external but not from a regular USB 2.0 type
enclosure. Since I'd found conflicting evidence of this I thought I
would post it here and see what others might have to say or suggest.
Thanks for reading.


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davemacD

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