Re: Boot to USB

It really is a pity that you are so dense, have a completely closed mind,
cannot understand what others are saying, so insult them, and don't know the
difference between 'booting' and loading However,
there is some salvation for people like you with those attributes: you would
be an outstanding manager for places like K-Mart, Wal-Mart or any
supermarket.
"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It mustn't.

John

Unknown wrote:

Why do you suppose the system HD MUST be C?
"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You don't know what you are talking about. If the computer supports
booting from USB devices it doesn't care what device is stuck in the USB
port. Other than being able to boot form USB this has absolutely
*nothing* to do with the BIOS and it has all to do with the Windows
architecture and the Windows boot process. Instead of posting nonsense
you should put your time to better use and do a bit of reading and
educate yourself!

John

Unknown wrote:


This is a BIOS situation and not Windows.
"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That won't work. Booting Windows XP on USB drives is unsupported.
There are some who claim that after much fiddling about they have
gotten this to work but for all intents and purposes for most users it
doesn't work. No doubt that in the not so distant future booting
Windows on USB drives will be possible, maybe it will be possible with
Vista but I don't expect that Microsoft will put much, if any, effort
in getting desktop XP to boot this way, XP is nearing the end of its
life cycle (mainstream support ends in less than 2 years) and users
shouldn't expect any major revamping or any significant new features to
be added to it.

I am no expert on this and I stand to be corrected, but if I remember
correctly I think that I read that one of the problem in getting
Windows to boot on USB drives is in the way USB is enumerated or in the
way the stack is loaded when Windows is booted. I think it is done
well after the Session Manager is started so it's like a catch 22
situation, Windows can't boot on USB drives because it only loads the
USB stack when it is almost done booting up. This is particularly
problematic with the creation of the pagefile, the creation of the
pagefile is one of the first thing that the Session Manager does and if
the USB stack is not loaded the Session Manager cannot create the
pagefile.

However, booting on USB flash devices is possible with Windows XP
Embedded SP2 (flash only, not hard disk), so the possibility that it
can be done with desktop XP on a hard drive is not so far fetched. If
you are adept and prepared to put the necessary effort into it you can
research this further and "play" with it.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/rem-stor.mspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa940915.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912927.aspx

John

nemy35 wrote:



I copy my EIDE Western Digital 80 gig C:\ drive, to a same make & size
EIDE drive installed in an external USB 2.0 enclosure Dynex model
DX-HDEN10 using Norton Ghost 10.0 connected to my USB bus, making the
copied drive active, bootable & with a copied MBR.
I would like to disconnect my C:\ drive & from a cold boot, boot to
the copied drive on the USB 2. bus, so that becomes the main drive.
I thought this was doable by changing the BIOS boot 1st device to
ARMD-HDD, but that didn't work.
Is this doable, & if so what do I need to do to make it happen?
Regards...Don





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