Re: Cloning Windows

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"-rwxrw-r--" wrote:
Timothy Daniels wrote:
"Anna" wrote: 
Microsoft published a "white paper" some time ago encouraging
motherboard manufacturers to provied USB booting capability in
their products. MS pointed out that there was nothing intrinsically
incorporated in the XP OS that would prevent this capability.



    This is very interesting, Anna!  If WinXP doesn't lack the capability,
    it seems to imply that the limitation is in the BIOS.

*TimDaniels* 

If that was the case, how would you explain that people are successfully
booting Linux off of external drives, even USB flash drives?

At some point modern operating systems take over the role of the BIOS
when booting. The fact that Linux can be booted and XP cannot would
seem to indicate the limitation is not in the BIOS.



   I'm just learning, here.  But I found this which *seems* to indicate
   that Microsoft thinks its WinXP could boot from a USB drive
   if only the BIOS would implement it:
   http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usbfaq.mspx

   Read it and tell us your interpretation.

*TimDaniels*
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