Re: Booting XP from a USB2 external hard drive.
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:25:02 -0400
Aw shucks! My bad. (-:
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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:uhJZNoP2FHA.1184@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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>
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