Re: Booting XP from a USB2 external hard drive.
- From: "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:21:29 +1000
You've got me there! How do I find out the link of a thread found
in a newsgroup? (Ahh, such ignorance!)
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OxwJOmP2FHA.1184@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> And the link is......
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ej0JIjO2FHA.616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Have a look at this thread in windowsxp.hardware:
> > "Booting XP from any USB device"
> >
> > <gshapiro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1130154900.704581.8360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> I've always been curious as to whether it is possible to boot up XP
> >> from a USB2 hard drive. So I decided to give it a whirl.
> >>
> >> It appears that installing XP to such a drive is not possible. The
> >> install does not give me the option to install to such a device.
> >>
> >> So I proceeded to Plan #2... Take a drive image of my boot/system
> >> drive and restore it to the USB2 drive.
> >>
> >> After accomplishing this I proceeded to boot from my USB2 device. Yes,
> >> my BIOS supports this.
> >>
> >> Upon booting I noticed something strange. I got the progress bar at
> >> the bottom of the screen that you normally get when booting from the XP
> >> CD or from a CD that contains Windows PE. This is the DOS looking
> >> progress bar that from a CD let's you load drivers by hitting F6.
> >> Except in this case only the progress bar was there, nothing else. I
> >> even tried F6 at this point but nothing happened.
> >>
> >> OK. So after the bar completely filled in, which happened real quick, I
> >> got the XP boot screen. I though, WOW, it does work.
> >>
> >> Then after a few seconds, BSOD, Stop: x'7B'.
> >>
> >> I suppose I technically did boot from a USB2 device. But of course the
> >> BSOD is now the problem.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any ideas how to get by the BSOD? The fact that I got
> >> this far seems to indicate that the USB drivers are loaded, or are
> >> they? I tried booting in safe mode and saw various drivers being
> >> loaded which also seems to indicate that XP was reading from the USB2
> >> drive.
> >>
> >> I am trying this just to see if it can be done. The fact that I got
> >> this far seems to me that it might be possible to do. I am kind of at
> >> an impasse at this point as to what to look at. Any help will be
> >> appreciated.
> >>
> >> btw.. A suggestion to do a Repair on the USB2 Windows Installation was
> >> suggested. Nice idea but the Repair facility does not present my USB
> >> Windows drive as a Repair option.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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