Re: Transferring DOS System Files to USB HDD

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From: Walter Clayton (w-claytonNO_at_SPmvpsAM.org)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 21:10:56 -0400

I can speculate.

Most likely issue is BIOS in conjunction with the fact that no version of
DOS was designed to be fired up from USB. That may seem strange, but
hardware initialization is affected by boot device order. 

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"Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
news:eHHa68UeEHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I have a USB HDD (30GB) and a motherboard that allows booting from a
> USB-HDD.  I have downloaded a WIN98 DOS boot disk (www.bootdisk.com) and
> extracted the file to a floppy. I have transferred the OS to the USB HDD
> (sys c:) and the machine will boot to DOS from the USB-HDD.  The problem 
> is
> when I use the DIR command, the directory displays in full but the machine
> hangs before it returns to the prompt (C:>).  I need to reboot to get out 
> of
> the 'hang'.
>
> I have tried two versions of the win98 boot disk each downloaded from
> www.bootdisk.com with the same results.  The odd thing is when I boot the
> machine using the boot disk, DIR displays the directory and returns to the
> prompt (C:>).
>
> Does anyone have any idea why I am having this problem and how to overcome
> it?
>
> My fixed drives are SATA and formatted NTFS with WINXP Pro installed,
> although I can't think that is relevant to the problem.
>
>
>

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