Re: W2K Installatiion or Boot from External USB Drive???
From: John John (audetweld_at_nbnet.nb.ca)
Date: 02/12/05
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:57:26 -0400
hector wrote:
> Ugh! Ok, so installing/upgrading W2K first needs to be done.
Yes, and in any case there are still a few "glitches" in your plan.
Booting off on USB drives is a hit and miss proposition at best and it
more often is a miss than a hit. On newer motherboards with BIOS
engineered to make use of it some report success while others still
struggle to get it to work. On an NT4 era computer my guess is that it
would be quite difficult if not almost impossible to accomplish this.
Secondly, personally I wouldn't want to rig up my server to run on a USB
drive. I do admit that it's been at least two years since I looked at
this but with all the hoopla USB drives are still slower than
IDE/SATA/SCSI drives. The numbers look impressive on paper and in
theory but in practice it is less spectacular. Almost all the test
results and data that I have seen 2 years ago shot the fast USB claims
full of holes and showed even old IDE drives to be much faster. I don't
think running an operating system on these devices to be such a good
idea and if you are to do this I would at the very least suggest that
the pagefile be place on one of your internal disks instead of the USB.
Thirdly, you can't just install W2K Server (or any OS) on that USB drive
(or any other drive) on your home machine then expect it to boot while
plugged in to your NT4 machine. The hardware would have to be about 99%
identical for that to work. Operating systems are installed to suit and
use the hardware on which it is installed. When you take the drive to
work it will be on a different motherboard, different chipset, different
everything... Even if you can overcome USB boot problem it still
wouldn't boot the new server installation, all you will get will be one
blue screen after another. You could still however do what you want but
you would have to "prepare" the installation for a "move" operation
before you plug it in the NT4 computer, and keep your fingers crossed!
It's none of my business but all and all and with the limitations and
technological problems presented by your plan I think you would be well
advised to ditch the plan and get a larger internal drive instead and
install W2K server on it. The USB drive is not lost, you could still
use it for backups or for other data storage.
> Thanks for the input.
You're welcome.
John
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